Kaiserturm (Quedlinburg)

Kaiserturm, view from the north

View from the south towards the city

The Kaiserturm is a medieval defense tower of the listed city fortifications of the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . Until the end of the 16th century, the tower had the function of a city gate on the southeast side of Quedlinburger Neustadt.

location

The tower is located in the southern part of the old city fortifications of the historic Quedlinburger Neustadt, on a connecting street between Kaiserstraße and Bahnhofstraße, at Kaiserstraße 33.

History and architecture

The Kaiserturm was originally a city gate on the southeast side of the Neustadt, a little south of the former Pölkentores. At the end of the 16th century the passage was walled up. Since then it has been one of the largest towers of the Quedlinburg city fortifications. The gate probably got its name from Andres Keizer , who lived there in 1567. In 1828 the merchant Georg Hanewald acquired the tower and converted it into apartments.

During work to repair water damage in 2003, a walled-up gate passage was found on the tower's ground floor. The findings show that the tower also served as a city gate in the past.

Even today (as of 2014) the tower is used as a residential building.

literature

Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 741.
State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle / Saale 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 52.

Web links

Commons : Kaiserturm (Quedlinburg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Monument Preservation Plan Quedlinburg 2012, page 64

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Wozniak: Quedlinburg in the 14th and 16th centuries - a social topographical comparison . Hall / S. 2013, p. 81
↑ Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg, A guide through the world cultural heritage city . Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , page 63
↑ Hendrik Kranert, teams once rumbled through the room in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , published online on April 24, 2003
↑ Oliver Schlegel: Signs of defensive autonomy. News from old walls in Quedlinburg , in: Art, culture and history in the Harz and Harz foreland around 1200 (reports from the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt 8) ed. by Ulrike Wendland. Halle / Saale 2008, pp. 96–108.

51.787196 11.148774Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 13.9 ″ N , 11 ° 8 ′ 55.6 ″ E

[1] Thomas Wozniak: Quedlinburg in the 14th and 16th centuries - a social topographical comparison . Hall / S. 2013, p. 81

[2] Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg, A guide through the world cultural heritage city . Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , page 63

[3] Hendrik Kranert, teams once rumbled through the room in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , published online on April 24, 2003

[4] Oliver Schlegel: Signs of defensive autonomy. News from old walls in Quedlinburg , in: Art, culture and history in the Harz and Harz foreland around 1200 (reports from the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt 8) ed. by Ulrike Wendland. Halle / Saale 2008, pp. 96–108.