Laufer strike tower

Laufer tower from the west

Laufer tower from the east

The Laufer Schlagturm is a gate tower of the penultimate city fortifications of Nuremberg .

history

The tower on the inner Laufer Platz is part of the Inner Laufer Tor.

The name comes from the clock located there , which announced the somewhat complicated Nuremberg clock as part of a comprehensive network of clocks .

The tower is a sandstone block construction with a pointed arched gate passage and alternative niches. It was probably built around 1250, while the two upper floors and the reinforcing pillars were not added until 1508. In addition to the White Tower and the Debt Tower , it is one of the few remaining towers of its era in Nuremberg. After the transition of the imperial city to Bavaria, there were demolition plans that were not carried out due to the resistance of the Nuremberg citizens.

A short piece of the old city wall can still be seen north of the tower.

swell

^ Nestmeyer, R. (2006). Nuremberg-Fürth-Erlangen. Erlangen: Michael Müller Verlag

literature

Helge Weingärtner: Laufer Schlagturm . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
Kurt Müller, Prevented Demolition Plans. Laufer Schlagturm, Männerschuldturm and Weißer Turm should fall victim to the pickaxe in the 19th century, in: MVGN 78, 1991, pp. 175–96