Maiden Tower
The maiden tower was part of the Munich city fortifications . The late Gothic remains of the tower with the raw brick wall on the city side and the former inner city wall in Jungfernturmstrasse are listed as architectural monuments in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
The elongated maiden tower was built in 1493 as a defensive tower in the Kreuzviertel between the second city wall and the outer wall in front of it. When Munich's fortress status was revoked in 1791, the tower had become superfluous. It was demolished in 1804. Today a memorial plaque in Jungfernturmstrasse commemorates the building.
The tower served as a battery tower , but it probably got its name from torture and executions with the Iron Maiden .
architecture
The massive tower with a steep gable roof stood in the north-east of the Salvatorkirche between the inner and outer city walls in the Zwinger . It protruded semicircularly beyond the outer city wall into the moat surrounding the city. The building, designed as a defense tower, had no windows, only shooting hatches and could only be entered from the city side.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Munich (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, monument number D-1-62-000-3140
- ↑ Fritz Fenzl: Der Teufelstritt: Magical stories and tours of legendary places in Munich , Stiebner Verlag, Munich, 2013, o. P.
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 31.8 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 27.2 ″ E