Kuhturm (Leipzig)

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Leipzig 1594 seen from the west, in front the cow tower
The Kuhturm with the Vorderen Palmengarten-Restaurant, around 1900

The cow tower was a remnant of the former cow castle in the Leipzig district of Alt- Lindenau , a property of the Lords of Koburg . The Kuhburger Wasser was named after the castle . The tower stood on Frankfurter Chaussee (today Jahnallee ) in the north of the former Rathswiese until 1938, where the Palmengarten was opened in 1899 .

The tower was used as a fire watch as well as a lookout point, mainly by shepherds who watched their cattle in the northern pasture . From 1528 it housed the Ratsförsterei and later an inn ("Vorderes Restaurant Palmengarten").

In 1939, the Kuhturm and other adjacent buildings were blown up in favor of the planned but never held Gutenberg Reich Exhibition. The Kuhturmstrasse and the Kuhturmallee and a gallery in Lindenau, which are close to the former location, are named after the Kuhturm .

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Hädicke: From the pasture to the landscape garden. The history of the palm garden began with the International Jubilee Horticultural Exhibition in 1893. Leipziger Blätter 37, 2000, pp. 40–43.
  • Alt-Lindenau - An urban study. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 1994.

Web links

Commons : Kuhturm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig Lexicon: Kuhburg. Cow tower
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Hädicke: From the pasture to the landscape garden.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 19 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 40 ″  E