Cash tower
The Kasseturm is a former tower of the city wall of Weimar , which today serves as a student club . It was built around 1500 and originally had two floors and an upper floor with battlements. It is Germany's oldest student club.
history
Due to the task as a defense tower , the threatened part of the outer wall was reinforced. The outer shape and the floor plan of the inner rooms are each circular with offset centers due to the differences in outer wall thickness, which results in an eccentric floor plan. Today's cellar and the first floor are vaulted .
The basement was originally used as a warehouse for ammunition and equipment. The first floor was equipped with cannons that were arranged in five loopholes. Stone stairs are integrated into the outer wall on the side that used to face the city. The original appearance has largely been preserved on the lower two floors.
After 1770, Anton Georg Hauptmann (1735–1803) carried out extensive renovation work aimed at making the tower habitable. Here the cash tower got its current shape. The upper floor was built in half-timbered houses and a pointed roof was added.
After the fire of the Weimar City Palace in 1774, the tower and the adjoining building became the seat of the Princely Landscape Treasury, a financial authority, as Anton Georg Hauptmann was heavily indebted to the Ducal Chamber and left the tower and the adjoining building to the Weimar Court for redemption. In its function as the seat of the landscape treasury, the tower was finally given the name "Kasseturm". The Weimar Kassengewölbe never had this function . But the fact that this burial site, originally built as a hereditary burial in 1715, passed into the possession of the Weimar Landscape Treasury in 1742 and was used for people from the upper class Weimar bourgeoisie who had no hereditary burial, it got its somewhat misleading name.
From 1809 the building housed a land surveying office. At the beginning of the 20th century it became the seat of the grand ducal education authority. From the 1930s to 1961 it was used as a warehouse for fruit and vegetables, and during World War II as an air raid shelter .
From 1961 onwards, it was designed by the architecture students in their 5th year of the then University of Architecture and Building, today's Bauhaus University , Heinz Schwarzbach , Dietrich Schreiner and Gerhardt Berndt, and converted into an FDJ student club by architecture students in their 3rd year of study . The student site managers were Klaus Uhlmann and Walter Müller. In addition to the technical building services, students from all disciplines were active at the building school. The start-up financing of 30,000 MDN was provided by the city of Weimar (building director Prof. A. Bach). The cash tower was inaugurated on December 18, 1962. Club leaders were always students, like Wolf-Dieter Cott, Klaus Uhlmann, Uwe Anders and others at the beginning. a. The legal entity has been the Kasseturm e. V.
Web links
- Website of the Kasseturm student club
- The history of the Kasseturm The term "Landeskasse" in this text is wrong!
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 55 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 34 ″ E