Issum Tower

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The Issumer Tower

The Issumer Tower is a former residential tower and landmark of the Krefeld suburb of Linn . The listed building is on the corner of Mauerstrasse and Issumer Strasse.

history

The tower was built in the 14th century as a so-called Burgmannshaus (small tower castle with courtyard buildings) and is named after what was probably its first liege-bearer - the Knights of Issum , who came from the Gelding region . However, the first documented tenant was Simon von Aldenbrüggen in 1430. Members of the various Rhenish aristocratic families, including the lords of Brempt , Eyll, Preuth, von der Warth, von Nievenheim and von Hallberg , then sat in the former castle lean-to of Linn in Electoral Cologne . After the tower was structurally altered in the second half of the 18th century, the last noble owner of the tower, Count Konstantin von Hallberg, sold the property to a master carpenter from Linner in 1854. His heirs sold the Issumer Tower to the city of Krefeld in 1908. The Issumer Tower and its outbuildings have been privately owned again since 2010. On April 6, 2016, the press reported that the property was up for sale again.

description

The tower has a rectangular floor plan and 1.10 meter thick walls on the ground floor. Its three storeys rise above a vaulted cellar and are closed off by a mansard roof. The building marks the southeast corner of a rectangular courtyard. To the west - leaning against the former city ​​wall - is a one-story wing on a high basement, the residential building of the building ensemble . The gatehouse is parallel to these two buildings to the north of it . Its most conspicuous component is the arched gate passage, which is crowned by a baroque tail gable from 1775.

literature

Web links

Commons : Issumer Turm  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Krefeld ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. (PDF; 209 kB), as of 01/2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heimat-krefeld.de
  2. ↑ a b P. Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld , p. 144.
  3. ↑ Information on the information board on the property
  4. ↑ Information on the Bakenhof and the Issumer Tower ( Memento from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Entry on Issumer Tower in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  6. ↑ Daniel Gonzales: The Issumer Tower in Linn is sold . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . Online edition from October 30, 2008.
  7. ↑ Peter Stirken: Sotheby's sells Linner Turmburg for 1.7 million euros . In: Rheinische Post . Online edition from April 6, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 59.3 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 24.2"  E