Gliesmaroder Tower

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Gliesmaroder Tower
Map of Braunschweig with the course of the Landwehr.
The Gliesmaroder Tower.
The course of the Braunschweiger Landwehr is marked in blue.

The Gliesmaroder Tower was one of seven defensive towers of the Braunschweiger Landwehr , the medieval outer fortification of the city of Braunschweig . It was located about two kilometers northeast of the former city limits, in today's Gliesmarode district .

history

The defense tower was built before 1406 on the Altmark trading route, today's Berliner Straße ( Bundesstraße 248 ), as a fortification tower. During the sieges of the city of Braunschweig in 1492 and 1550 it was destroyed and rebuilt, sold in 1763 and then finally demolished.

After that, the building of the same name, which has been preserved to this day and is used as a restaurant, was built in the same place, from which the innkeeper was allowed to collect road money in the 18th and 19th centuries .

Today, at Berliner Straße 105, the Gliesmaroder Tower is an ensemble of buildings composed of half-timbered and solid structures of different heights and ages . On the western part with the slate-clad half-timbered upper floor there is still building fabric from the 18th century.

During the Third Reich in the 1940s, one hundred Polish female forced laborers who worked for the canning factories Heine & Co. and P. Lindner as well as outside the harvest season for the Fricke & Nacke company were housed in the Gliesmaroder Tower.

  • The Gliesmaroder Tower around 1839, engraving by Wilhelm Pätz

  • Gliesmaroder Tower 2011

literature

  • Julius Reissner: The Landwehr in old Braunschweig . In: Braunschweig Calendar 1968 . Meyer, Braunschweig 1968.
  • Carl Wilhelm Sack : The fortification of the city of Braunschweig . In: Archives of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , Historical Association for Lower Saxony (ed.), Verlag Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1847.
  • Hans Adolf Schultz : The Landwehr of the city of Braunschweig. Their course in the light of the latest research . In: Braunschweigische Heimat , Volume 40, Issue 3, E. Appelhans & Co., Braunschweig 1954, pp. 73-77.

Web links

Commons : Gliesmaroder Turm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory: Places of Remembrance (PDF; 1.5 MB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 41.7 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 20.5 ″  E