Bucksturm
The Bucksturm (formerly also Bocksturm ) is a listed building in Osnabrück .
The tower with a semicircular floor plan was built at the beginning of the 13th century as a watchtower between the Heger Tor and the Natruper Tor on the Osnabrück city wall , which in this section was called the Bocksmauer . The tower with a diameter of 10.7 meters supposedly got its name after a stone with a goat head, which is said to have been walled in on the top floor, which no longer exists.
From its relatively small loopholes you can see that the tower was never intended for cannons, but only for smaller handguns. In the Middle Ages , the city prison was housed in the tower . For example, Count Simon zur Lippe is said to have lived here in the early 14th century . Johann von Hoya was imprisoned from 1441 to 1448 in the so-called Johanniskasten on the second floor. Six preachers of the Anabaptist empire sent from Münster to Osnabrück were further prisoners before they were brought to Iburg on October 18 or 19, 1534, in the Bennoturm of the Iburg Castle there. In addition, the function of a torture chamber was added during the witch hunt in the 16th and 17th centuries . Today the tower shows an exhibition about the persecution of witches, but no torture instruments can be seen that were still in use at the beginning of the 20th century. The original height of the tower was 28 meters. In 1805, around ten meters had to be removed due to dilapidation. Since then it has four floors.
In 1922 a war memorial for the soldiers of the infantry regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (East Frisian) No. 78 was installed on the west side . The design of the monument comes from the sculptor Hermann Hosaeus (1875–1958). It was made from Anröchter stone and inaugurated on October 1, 1922.
literature
- Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.), Christian Kämmerer (Ed.): Architectural Monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 32, City of Osnabrück . Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1986, p. 57 ISBN 3-528-06209-6
- Heinrich Siebern, Erich Fink (arrangement): The art monuments of the province of Hanover, IV. Administrative region of Osnabrück, 1st and 2nd city of Osnabrück . Hanover 1907; Reprint of the inventory of art monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 39. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1978, pp. 323-325, ISBN 3-87898-133-3
- Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation: Directory of architectural monuments according to Section 4 (NDSchG), City of Osnabrück, as of July 15, 1986 , p. 7 (supplement to the architectural monuments in Lower Saxony )
- City of Osnabrück, the Lord Mayor, Department of Culture, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (Hrsg.): Art in public space . Osnabrück 2007, p. 140, p. 159
- Ernst Andreas Friedrich : Der Bocksturm in Osnabrück , pp. 175–177, in: If stones could talk , Volume III, Landbuch-Verlag, Hanover 1995, ISBN 3-7842-0515-1 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 18.6 ″ E