Landsberger Jungfernsprung
The Jungfernsprung in Landsberg am Lech is a half tower in the course of the southern city wall from the 14th century. In the 19th century it was increased significantly in order to install a water pressure tank. At this time, the legend originated in 1633, girls and women would have thrown themselves to death here in the Lech for fear of the atrocities of the Swedish troops in the Thirty Years' War . In fact, some women took their own lives back then, their names are still in the church register today. However, the tower is too far from the Lech and in 1633 too low to explain such an event, and the course of the Lech has not changed significantly there either. The tower got its name after this legend.
The tower is part of the old city wall, which is interrupted here, and is now used as a viewing platform. To the right of this is the transformer house, which was once the keep and thus the tallest tower in the city.
literature
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 .
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Individual evidence
- ^ P-Seminar History: The Landsberger Jungfernsprung (page 22). In: City newspaper of the Ignaz-Kögler-Gymnasium. Ignaz Kögler Gmynasium (Landsberg am Lech), accessed on November 21, 2018 (German).
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 50.2 " N , 10 ° 52 ′ 40.1" E