Limps Tower
The Limps Tower (also called Mäuseturm and Hexenturm ) in Arnsberg dates from the first half of the 13th century and was part of the city fortifications. Today it houses an artistic multimedia presentation.
history
The tower was originally part of the fortification of the Arnsberg upper town. In the first half of the 13th century, the older wood-earth wall was replaced by a stone wall with gates and towers. The Limps Tower also dates from this time. With the Limps gate, the tower formed part of a gate system.
It is a five-storey, semicircular wall tower made of quarry stone with a slated cone dome. He was provided with numerous loopholes.
The tower's original name was probably Limitenturm (from the Latin Limes ). It later became Lemper Tower, Lemps Tower and Limps Tower.
The towers of the city were financed, maintained and, if necessary, defended by the various guilds. The Limps Tower was presumably subject to the blacksmith's guild. As one of the few buildings in the city, the tower survived the great city fire of 1600.
After the tower lost its defensive role, it served different purposes. Goats were kept here at the beginning of the 19th century. It later served as a prison and the prisoners almost died in the town fire of 1847. The city sold the tower, but bought it back in 1895. In the 1920s it was the meeting place for the Catholic youth movement. After the end of the Second World War, it served temporarily as accommodation for refugees.
The tower still shapes the image of the city today. The tower has been included in the Arnsberg Monument List since 1990 . In February 2012 it will be Monument of the Month of the Working Group on Historic Town Centers of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Light tower
In 2012, an artistic installation in the form of a walk-in camera obscura was set up. The second floor is an exhibition space and the actual camera obscura was installed on the third floor. On the fourth floor there is a multimedia-based presentation of panorama images. It is planned to accommodate further multimedia presentations in the basement.
literature
- From Saustrasse, Bindfadengasse and Oleypforte. In: Heimatblätter Zeitschrift des Arnsberger Heimatbund vol. 8 1987 pp. 25–27
- Karl Féaux de Lacroix : History of Arnsberg. Arnsberg, 1895 [reprint, Werl 1983] pp. 20, 80
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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '56.1 " N , 8 ° 3' 42.5" E