Fishing tower

Fangelturm Neubrandenburg

Catch tower in Greifswald

Several towers in fortifications or in city walls in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt are referred to as Fangelturm or Fangenturm . The name means something like prisoner tower . In other regions the term hunger tower is common.

The following towers are named:

• Fangelturm (Barth)
• Fangelturm (Friedland)
• Fishing tower (Malchin)
• Müggenburg fishing tower
• Nehringen fishing tower
• Fangelturm (Neubrandenburg)
• Fishing tower Rostock
• Rothenklempenow fishing tower
• Fangelturm (Seehausen) in Seehausen (Altmark)
• Fangelturm (Stralendorf)
• Fishing tower of Blankenburg Castle
• Wesenberg fishing tower
• Greifswald catch tower
• Fangenturm (Münden)

See also

• List of city gates and defense towers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung : Grammendorf / Nehringen community is committed to the Fangelturm , September 9, 2015
2. ↑ az-online : Making Seehausen Fangelturm accessible , April 27, 2011