Christoffelturm (Worms)

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Christoffelturm
Christoffelturm after the destruction in 1689 - an exaggerated representation according to the archaeological findings

The Christoffelturm (also: Christophelturm ) was a tower in the southern section of the inner wall ring of the city ​​fortifications of Worms . Today it belongs to the Museum of Worms.

history

Historical sources for the tower are only available from the 17th century, but this has nothing to do with the age of the tower, but with the incomplete sources from the time before the city was destroyed in 1689. During construction investigations that were carried out in 2013, remnants of high medieval masonry were also found. The tower belongs to a section of the wall that was built in the early 10th century. However, it has not been proven whether he is also this age. The tower was blown up by the French occupiers in the course of the Palatine War of Succession in 1689, with the upper part of the tower being destroyed. Peter Hamman's drawing , which depicts the tower as largely destroyed, is then assessed as exaggerated. To what extent the tower was rebuilt and / or repaired in the 18th century is not known.

The upper floors were only added to their current state in the 1920s in connection with their use as a museum. Today the tower belongs to the museum of the city of Worms , as does the neighboring Andreasstift .

building

Today the tower consists of medieval masonry only in its lower area . He was 23 m high. The very large floor plan for a tower in the city wall gave rise to the assumption that it could originally have been a residential tower .

The inserted spoils are numerous - almost all of them in parts of the wall that were inserted during the reconstruction in the 1920s. Also, all the windows have been re-installed, the Gothic windows of the south wing of the cloister of Andrew pin here translocated and the weather vane is from a historic harbor crane on the Rhine. A carved corner stone is also inserted as a spoiler , which shows two dragons on both sides holding a Worms key coat of arms and the year 1667. It comes from an unknown part of the fortifications. The bay window on the south side is also a free addition from the 1920s.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Karl Heinz Armknecht: The Worms city walls . In: Der Wormsgau 9 (1970/1971), pp. 54-65.
  • Gerold Bönnen: The heyday of the high Middle Ages: From Bishop Buchard to the Rhenish League (1000–1254) . In: ders. (Ed.): History of the City of Worms . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 , pp. 133-179.
  • Wolfgang Grün: The city wall of Worms . Stadtarchiv Worms , Worms 1998. ISBN 3-00-002765-3
  • Walter Hotz: Defensive Worms. Art history of the city fortifications. 2) Late Gothic and Renaissance towers and gates . In: Wormser monthly mirror from June 1982, pp. 5-11. [quoted: Hotz, June 1982]
  • Fritz Reuter: Defensive Worms. 2. Staufer wall and late medieval expansion . In: Worms monthly mirror from March 1982, pp. 5-8.
  • Irene Spille: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 10 (City of Worms). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 1992, ISBN 978-3-88462-084-7
  • Olaf Wagener and Aquilante de Filippo: The Worms city wall - New findings on dating and development as well as a report on building research on the city wall in the area of ​​the Andreasstift . In: Der Wormsgau 30 (2013), pp. 19–57.
  • Olaf Wagener: On the building history of the Christoffelturm of the Worms city wall. Report on the construction investigations at the former St. Andreas Abbey in 2013 . In: Der Wormsgau 31 (2014/2015), pp. 91-104.

Web links

Commons : Christoffelturm, Worms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Armknecht: The Worms city walls , p. 59.
  2. ^ Wagener: On the history of construction , p. 91.
  3. ^ Wagener: On the history of construction , p. 94f.
  4. ↑ Bönnen: The bloom time , p. 161.
  5. ↑ Hamman: [ View of the city of Worms after the destruction in 1689 from the south ] (Worms City Archives, Section 1B, No. 48).
  6. ^ Wagener / de Filippo: Die Worms city wall , p. 22.
  7. ↑ a b Wagener: On the building history , p. 92.
  8. ^ According to Spille: Denkmaltopographie , p. 42, it was 1920; According to Reuter: Wehrhaftes Worms. 2. Staufermauer , p. 7, it was 1927; after Grün: Die Stadtmauer , p. 16, it was 1928/1929; According to Wagener: Zur Baugeschichte , p. 92, it was "1928 to 1930".
  9. ^ Wagener: On the history of construction , p. 94f.
  10. ^ Reuter: Wehrhaftes Worms. 3. Towers, walls and battlements , p. 8.
  11. ^ Wagener: On the history of construction , p. 103.
  12. ↑ a b Wagener: On the history of construction , p. 93.
  13. ↑ Hotz, June 1982, p. 10.

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 40.5 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 27 ″  E