Big pitch tower

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The moat in the southeast. The big round tower in the middle was the big pitch tower.

The Great Pechturm was a defense tower of the Upper Swabian city ​​of Memmingen . It was also called the Synwell Tower and was demolished in 1806.

location

The tower stood at the southeast corner of the old town between the Kempter Tor and the small Pechturm .

Appearance

The base of the round tower was made of tuff stone and the superstructure was made of bricks and had a round roof that was pulled upwards. It was closed by a weather vane. The battlements led past the Hohe Wacht .

history

The tower came from the second city expansion in the 14th century. It was the best protected tower of the entire city fortifications with entrenchments. Between 1529 and 1546 a huge earth rondel was raised. The stones from the broken-off Schottenklosterkirche were used for the casemate walls. The tower's walls were four feet thick so that it could also carry cannons. In 1806 it had to be canceled at the instigation of the French. His second name Synwellturm came from the old Swabian expression Synwell , which means something like round .

literature

  • Günther Bayer: Memmingen in old views. Graphic and pictorial representations of the imperial city and its surroundings from 5 centuries . Verlag Memminger Zeitung, Memmingen 1979, p. 44 .
  • Karl Fackler: The old Memmingen. The development of the city of Memmingen from the time of its foundation to the Thirty Years War . Publishing and Printing Cooperative Memmingen, Memmingen 1929, p. 43 (Munich, Technical University, dissertation, 1928).

Web links

Commons : Stadtbefestigung Memmingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '51.4 "  N , 10 ° 11' 1.9"  E