Beguinenturm
The Beguinenturm (also called Beginenturm ) was a defense tower of the outer city wall of the city of Aachen, which was built around 1300 to 1350 . It is no longer preserved.
location
In the outer wall ring the Beguinenturm stood in the west-northwest between Königstor and Ponttor about 75 m northeast of the Burtscheider Tower between Turmstrasse and Junkerstrasse. Between the Beguinenturm and the Königstor stood the Burtscheider Tower and the Long Tower , between the Beguinenturm and the Ponttor the Gregoriusturm , the Bongartsturm and the Krückenturm .
history
The construction date of the Beguin Tower is not known, but, like the Long Tower, it will be set early in the 14th century, as this section of the wall in the northwest of the city was built as one of the first sections of the second ring of walls because of the favorable terrain for an attack on the city.
During the French occupation of Aachen , the tower was demolished in the course of the razing of the Aachen city fortifications in the first quarter of the 19th century.
description
The Beguinenturm was a semicircular entrenchment tower with straight legs. It was 11.10 m wide and 7.60 m deep.
The tower was two-story. Both floors were vaulted with a semi-domed vault, which merged into a barrel vault over the extended legs. The ground floor had loopholes for archers and crossbowmen , while the upper floor had wider shooting hatches, which could be closed by wooden flaps, for the use of guns such as B. Ballista .
The roof consisted of half a cone roof and then turned into a gable roof .
literature
- Bruno Lerho : The great Aachen city wall with gates and towers . Helios Verlag, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-938208-37-6 .
- Carl Rhoen : The fortifications of the free imperial city of Aachen . Anton Creutzer, Aachen 1894, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-230540 ( ISL Aachen [PDF; accessed on May 7, 2016]).
See also
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 36.4 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 24.4" E