Martinsturm (Quedlinburg)

Martinsturm

The Martinsturm , also known as Mertensturm , 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 southern part of the old city fortifications of the historic Quedlinburger Neustadt, at the southern end of the Damm street. The Mühlgraben flows northeast of the tower .

History and architecture

The Martinsturm was built as a semicircular shell tower. The tower is therefore open to the north on the city side. The tower served, together with the originally on the other side of the Mühlgraben, but not preserved, Mummental Tower , the defense of the weak point in the city fortifications formed by the flow of the Mühlgraben. Only a stump of the tower has survived, which was included in the design of the park of the senior citizens' residential complex at Heiligegeiststrasse 10 to the south .

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 , page 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 , page 52.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Wozniak, Quedlinburg in the 14th and 16th centuries: A social topographical comparison , Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 9783050060491 , page 82
2. ↑ Quedlinburg Monument Preservation Plan 2012, page 64

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 17.5 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 46.4"  E