Heidenturm
Heidenturm is a direct or popular name for various towers on castles or churches.
Steeples
Germany
- St. Markus in Reinheim, Bliesgau in Saarland, also known as the Roman tower , Romanesque round tower under a simple pointed pyramid roof, probably built as a defensive tower - similar towers also have similar towers in Bliesgau, St. Mauritius in Erfweiler-Ehlingen and St. Margaretha in Bebelsheim as well as other churches in the neighboring Lorraine
- Romanesque church towers with stone (octagonal) domes between four gables (with octagonal tambour ), imitating Byzantine-oriental central structures :
- North portal of Wetzlar Cathedral (dome removed in 1903)
- in the southeast of Rheinhessen ( Wonnegau ) also called "Saracen Towers", not to be confused with the Genoese Saracen Towers :
- Evangelical Church of St. Bonifatius in Alsheim (VG Eich)
- Saracen tower of the Protestant parish church in Dittelsheim (VG Westhofen)
- St. Viktor in Guntersblum (LK Mainz-Bingen)
- Pauluskirche in Worms
Austria
- Heidenturm Kittsee , Burgenland
- St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna ( similar to Roman building material or minarets , regular octagonal shaft pieces)
Further
- Parish church in Willisau (Switzerland, Romanesque)
- St. Mauritius in Ebersmunster (Alsace, baroque; Mauritius (saint) "Mohr" born in Egypt - the rear tower has a more clearly octagonal drum than the two front towers)
Towers on castles or city fortifications
- Old castle in Gießen (round tower, octagonal clad at the top, with a Welscher hood )
- Keep in the Hanau City Palace (original architecture lost)
- Ibbenbüren Castle in Ibbenbüren (12th century or a little later, only remains)
- City fortifications of Lindau in Lake Constance (remnants of a defensive tower, humpback cuboid, probably 9th century)
- Margarethenturm of Nuremberg Castle (Romanesque choir tower with a square floor plan)
- Moated castle Haus Empel in Rees (round tower under a pointed pyramid roof)
- Römerturm in Regensburg (Romanesque defense tower with a square floor plan)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ heidenturmkirchen.de/bilderalbum.html ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ heidenturmkirchen.de
- ↑ The Rheinhessen »Heidentürme« ( memento of the original from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Hans-Jürgen Kotzur
- ↑ heidenturmkirchen.de/alsheim.html
- ↑ heidenturmkirchen.de/dittelsheim-hessloch.html ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Heidentürme on the website of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
- ↑ photo