Borg Trick Tower

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View of the tower of the city wall named after Cord Borgentrick.

The Borgentrick Tower (also: Cord Borgentrick Tower ) is a listed defense tower in the old town of Hanover . It was part of the city's fortifications and is now integrated as a monument in the former main building of the Hanover Adult Education Center on Theodor-Lessing-Platz.

history

According to the city board, the tower was built as part of the city wall around 1310. According to the monument conservator Arnold Nöldeke , "the semicircular tower at the Spreenswinkel " was 9.40 m high from its 2.40 m deep underground to the (former) roof top. The basement was built from ashlars, the brick addition was added in the 15th century.

In 1490, the citizen Cord Borgentrick is said to have informed the guards in the tower of an impending attack on the city by the troops of Duke Heinrich the Elder of Braunschweig and Lüneburg . The tower later served as a dwelling for the shepherd of the cows on the Aegidien pasture.

One of the oldest photographs of the Borgentric Tower (1886) was made famous by the photographer Georg Alpers.

See also

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke: Fortification. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. 1: Hanover district, issue 2: City of Hanover , Hanover 1932, p. 42ff., Here v. a. P. 52
    • Reprint: Wenner Osnabrück, 1979. Part 1: Monuments of the “old” city area of ​​Hanover (incorporated until January 1, 1870), ISBN 3-87898-151-1
  • Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The fortification of the old town. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1 , vol. 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 51f.
    • Annex to vol. 10.2: Theodor-Lessing-Platz 1 / 1A (remains of the city wall tower, Cord-Borgentrick tower). In: middle. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 10. Wolfgang Neß among others: City of Hanover. Part 2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 3ff.

Web links

Commons : Borgentrick-Turm (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The fortification of the old town ...
  2. ^ Arnold Nöldeke: Attachment
  3. ↑ Heimatland magazine for local history, nature conservation, cultural maintenance. Year 2010, issue 4, p. 129
  4. ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910 . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 142

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 7.6 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 17.7"  E