Heidenturm Kittsee
The Heidenturm near Kittsee , also called Öder Turm , is the remainder of a late medieval watch and bell tower of the Lebarn deserted church . It is located in the Turmfeldäcker vineyard southwest of the center of today's Kittsee municipality in the Neusiedl am See district in Burgenland . The ruin is since September 1932 under monument protection .
The Heidenturm is the only structural remnant of the former village of Lebarn that survived the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529. In older literature, the tower was assigned to Roman times and was referred to as turricula semidurata as early as 1527 . In 1948 the tower was structurally repaired.
Building description
The four-story tower stands over a square floor plan with a side length of 4.5 meters. The wall thickness is about one meter. Only the surrounding walls of the original fortified tower are preserved today. While the first and second upper floors are illuminated by notches , the light on the third floor comes through high rectangular windows. All window openings are set in primarily offset stone reveals. The latter have wide versions that end in lateral drains. In the south-eastern wall on the ground floor there is an opening that may have been broken out later and expanded towards the outside in a funnel shape. Originally, access was probably via a high entrance on the northeast side of the tower, which was partially destroyed by a later wall eruption.
inner space
In the ground floor zone, the beginnings of the vault have been partially preserved. On the fourth floor, the quarter-circle consoles that supported the ceiling beams are still preserved. The tower is built of rubble stone masonry, which is interrupted at intervals of 1.5 m by leveling bearings. On the north side there is a remnant of a front gable wall, consisting of bricks or sheet-like rubble, which comes from a building that was added later and is no longer preserved. This is interpreted several times as the nave of the traditional Michael Church. The eaves height of the component extends to the second upper floor of the tower.
literature
- Dehio Burgenland 1976 , Kittsee, Öder Turm, p. 145.
- Bundesdenkmalamt (editor), Andreas Lehne (editorial management): Austrian art topography. Band LIX. The art monuments of the political district of Neusiedl am See . Verlag Berger, Horn 2012, ISBN 978-3-85028-554-4 , p. 423 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burgenland - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
- ↑ burgseite.com ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Bundesdenkmalamt (publisher), Andreas Lehne (editorial management): Austrian art topography. Band LIX. The art monuments of the political district of Neusiedl am See . Verlag Berger, Horn 2012, ISBN 978-3-85028-554-4 , p. 423 f .
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '5 " N , 17 ° 1' 15.4" E