Baumburger Tower
The Baumburger Turm in the street Am Watmarkt 4 in the old town of Regensburg is one of the so-called gender towers , which were built by rich patrician families in the Middle Ages as status symbols. The unchanged Baumburger tower is considered the most beautiful of the 20 genealogical towers preserved in Regensburg and is a tourist attraction.
history
The 28 m high, seven-storey tower adorned with a crenellated wreath was built at the end of the 13th century by the Ingolstetten, one of the wealthy Regensburg patrician families . The ground floor hall, formerly provided with a two-bay cross ribbed vault, was used as a house chapel. In the 14th century the house castle came into the possession of the Baumburger. The late Gothic eastern extension of a residential wing was extended to Kramgasse in the 15th century . According to the list of monuments , a residential extension to the south with the address Kramgasse 3 was built during this time .
On the first floor there is a round arched arbor with parapet and a recessed rear wall pierced by three windows. This arbor was later closed for climatic reasons. In the 16th century the arbor was even completely walled up and replaced by a normal window, similar to the gothic window above the arbor today. It was not until 1914 that the arched arbor and the window groups were exposed again during construction work.
The upper floors are attractively structured by different groups of Gothic windows. Because of the slightly sloping terrain, the northern façade of the tower, facing Goliathstrasse, is very impressive to the viewer. The three other facades of the tower are also designed in a similar way, but cannot be seen from Goliathstrasse. The courtyard south of the tower, which cannot be seen from the street, has Renaissance arcades.
From 1762 until the 1960s, a plumber was operated in the house castle . After 1968 extensive renovation measures began with the aim of making the tower habitable. At the turn of the 20th century the house was home to the family of the poet Georg Britting .
Individual evidence
- ^ Sigfrid Färber: Regensburg then, yesterday and today. The image of the city over the last 125 years . 1st edition. JF Steinkopf Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7984-0588-3 , p. 41 .
- ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 85 f .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 11.8 ″ N , 12 ° 5 ′ 45.7 ″ E