Executioner's Tower (Nuremberg)

The executioner's tower in the back right, water tower and wine bar to the left. In the foreground on the right the executioner's bridge .

Left the water tower, right the hangman's tower.

The executioner's tower is a wall tower in the west of the penultimate Nuremberg city ​​fortifications .

Location and surroundings

The tower stands on the western tip of the Pegnitz located Trödelmarkt island and is connected to the stationary on the north bank of the river, the larger the water tower with one having truss and saddle roof connected overbuilt, double lancet sand stone bridge. The Henkersteg leads from the hangman's tower to the south bank .

history

The tower, which is round to the west, was built in 1320-25 as part of the Pegnitz Bridge. It originally protected the Pegnitz river and lost its function in 1400 with the construction of the last city fortifications. The executioner of the city then lived in the rooms of the overbuilt bridge accessible via the hangman's tower .

In 2007 the executioner's house was opened in the executioner's rooms , a museum on the criminal history of Nuremberg, which is illustrated using the example of the executioner's diary, Franz Schmidt . The museum is run by the History For All Association .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Weingärtner: Executioner's Tower . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 437 ( complete edition online ).
2. ↑ http://www.franken-wiki.de/index.php/Henkerhaus
3. ↑ http://www.geschichte-fuer-alle.de/henkerhaus/

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 11.7 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 23.9"  E