New Tower (Worms)

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New tower near Sebastian Münster (approx. 1550) - with knight; in the foreground the golden gate [1] New tower by Peter Hamman (approx. 1630) - with image of the Virgin Mary
New tower near Sebastian Münster (approx. 1550) - with knight; in the foreground the golden gate
New tower by Peter Hamman (approx. 1630) - with image of the Virgin Mary

The new tower of the city ​​fortifications of Worms was the northeast corner tower of the outer wall ring and was particularly splendidly designed.

Geographical location

The foundation of the tower protruded into the Rhine and was also the northernmost point of the city fortifications along the Rhine front. The tower protected the neighboring Golden Gate (a city gate on the Rhine side) and an upstream harbor crane . In today's topography, this corresponds to the area of ​​the security port, where a large silo now adorns the Worms city ​​skyline .

history

The new tower is said to have been the first tower of the outer fortification that was built - but the construction time is not documented. The oldest surviving written testimony to the tower is from 1368.

The tower was destroyed by the French occupiers in 1689 , which required 30 demolition mines . The remaining ruins stood for a long time and were only removed when the port was built in 1893.

Building

According to all the surviving representations, the new tower was a particularly imposing tower that towered over the northeast corner of the outer wall. He stood on a specially fortified pedestal. The tower had six vaulted floors with two small rectangular windows each facing the Rhine on the upper floors. A cantilevered corridor ran around the tower at the height of the wall.

The new tower was adorned with a crenellated wreath over an arched frieze and a high, pyramidal roof, surrounded by four octagonal corner turrets with pointed spiers . On the portrayal of Peter Hamman it was adorned with a picture of Mary on the river side , on the portrayal of Sebastian Münster . it is a knight . The magnificent tower was considered "the pride of the city".

Worth knowing

The Neuturm gave its name to Neuturmstrasse.

gallery

New tower after Braun / Novellanus / Hogenberg before 1574; in the foreground the golden gate
New tower to Hamman around 1631
New tower after Matthäus Merian before 1645
New tower to Hamman before 1689

literature

  • Karl Heinz Armknecht: The Worms city walls . In: Der Wormsgau 9 (1970/1971), pp. 54-65.
  • Walter Hotz: Defensive Worms. Art history of the city fortifications. 2) Late Gothic and Renaissance towers and gates . In: Wormser monthly mirror from June 1982, pp. 5-11. [quoted: Hotz, June 1982]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sebastian Münster: Cosmographey. Hencicpetrina , Basel 1572, pp. DCXCIII-DCXCVI. Worms City Archives: Dept. 217 No. 1478.
  2. ↑ Armknecht: Die Worms city walls , p. 62.
  3. ↑ Hotz, June 1982, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Irene Spille: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 10 (City of Worms). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 1992, ISBN 978-3-88462-084-7 , p. 44.
  5. ↑ Hotz, July 1982, p. 21.
  6. ^ Armknecht: Die Wormser Stadtmauern , p. 62; Wolfgang Grün: The city wall of Worms . Stadtarchiv Worms , Worms 1998. ISBN 3-00-002765-3 , p. 14.
  7. ↑ Hotz, June 1982, p. 5.
  8. ↑ Armknecht: Die Worms city walls , p. 62.
  9. ↑ Hotz, June 1982, p. 5.
  10. ^ Sebastian Münster: Cosmographey . Hencicpetrina, Basel 1572, pp. DCXCIII – DCXCVI: Representation of Worms from the east, i.e. the Rhine side, around 1550. Printed by: Eugen Kranzbühler: Disappeared Worms Buildings. Contributions to the building history and topography of the city . Kräuter'sche Buchhandlung, Worms 1905, plaque in front of SV Stadtarchiv Worms: Dept. 217 No. 1478.
  11. ↑ Heribert Isele: The defense system of the city of Worms from the beginning to the end of the 18th century . Masch. Diss. Heidelberg [1951?], P. 59.
  12. ↑ Erich Schwan: The street and alley names in medieval Worms = The Wormsgau. Supplement 1. City Library, Worms 1936, p. 18.
  13. ↑ George Brown, Simon Novellanus and Franz Hogenberg: Description and Contrafactur the vornembster staet the world . Heinrich von Ach, Cologne 1574. Plate between pages 35 and 36. Worms City Archives: Dept. 214 No. 1499.
  14. ↑ Detail from the plan by Peter Hamman around 1690: Instead of Wormbß like the same in 1631 before the Swedish ruin of the Vorstätt [...] remained . Worms City Archive, Section 1B, No. 48.
  15. ↑ Matthäus Merian: Topographia Palatinus Rheni et Vicinarum Regionum . Hoffmann, Frankfurt 1645, plate between p. 96 and p. 97. Worms City Archives: Section 217 No. 1495. Printed by: Eugen Kranzbühler: Disappeared Worms Buildings. Contributions to the building history and topography of the city. Kräuter'sche Buchhandlung, Worms 1905, plaque in front of SV
  16. ↑ Detail from: Peter Hamman: View of the city of Worms as it was before 1689 from the east (Rhine front). Worms City Archive, Section 1B, No. 48.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 22 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 19.8"  E