Bienstädter Warte
The Bienstedter Warte (formerly also called Uffhusener Warte , after a former village in its neighborhood ) is a stone defense structure on the Fahner Höhe near Bienstädt , Thuringia, which was first mentioned in 1411 and is a listed building .
history
The originally 18 m high tower, built of limestone, has been part of the outer fortification system of the city of Erfurt since the late Middle Ages, which consisted of 16 municipal waiting areas . It has a square floor plan with a side length of 4.65 m. Today the remaining height is about 6 m.
After a fire in the village of Bienstedt in 1733, in which more than 50 houses were destroyed, the farmers were allowed to remove usable building material from the control room, which at that time had already fallen into disrepair. During the GDR era , a central monitoring center for the Ministry of State Security was built near the control room . 1999-2006 large found on the former Stasi grounds techno parties among other things, Green Velvet , Monika Kruse , Sven Väth , Dave Clarke and Der Dritte Raum instead.
literature
- Robert Huth: waiting towers around Erfurt with village fortifications. Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2015, ISBN 978-3-86777-926-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board on the tower
- ↑ Thüringer Landeszeitung (Patrick Krug): Bienstädter Warte: A piece of Thuringian techno history , Erfurt, April 4, 2015
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '26 " N , 10 ° 49' 55.9" E