Blasturm (Gunzenhausen)
The Blasturm , also called Ansbacher Torurm or Neues Tor , is a city gate of the old town of Gunzenhausen in the Central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen and has the address Rathausstrasse 13. It is listed under the monument number D-5-77-136-103 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian region List of monuments entered.
The blow tower is the last preserved gate of the city of Gunzenhausen. The name comes from the tower blowing . The tower is 33 m high and was built in 1466. The substructure with passage comes from the previous tower from the 15th century. The previous building probably collapsed in 1578, which is why the upper floors were added in 1603. The tower was the residence of the watchman . At the tower there are remains of the Gunzenhausen city wall .
The blow tower has an octagonal tower structure with a polygonal tent roof , which is closed by a lantern .
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 224 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ansbacher Tor (Blasturm) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ 6. Blasturm, Rathausstrasse 13 ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.gunzenhausen.de, City of Gunzenhausen, accessed on January 24, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 55 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 18.7 ″ E