Kruschitzkyturm

Kruschitzkyturm

South side

View from the houses on Hohen Strasse to the Kruschitzkyturm, photo taken between 1950 and 1977

The Kruschitzkyturm is a medieval defense tower of the listed city ​​fortifications of the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The tower is located in the western part of the old city fortifications of the historic Quedlinburg old town on the west side of Hohen Strasse, east of Wallstrasse. A little further north is the Powder Tower .

History and architecture

The Kruschitzkyturm is five-storey built on a square floor plan. It is designed as a shell tower and has a shooting chamber and a wall rampart . The tower, which is covered by a pointed roof , has cloverleaf arched openings on its top floor. It was probably made in the 14th century. The tower, which was originally open on the city side, was later closed with half-timbering . The name Kruschitzky goes back to a later owner of the tower.

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 , p. 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 , p. 52.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quedlinburg Monument Preservation Plan 2012, p. 62
2. ↑ Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg, A guide through the world cultural heritage city . Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , p. 63

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 21.4 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 18.4"  E