Nun tower (Dülmen)

Nonnenturm in Dülmen (2012) with fragment of the former city wall (left)

The nuns tower is next to the Lorenkenturm and Lüdinghauser Tor a still received from three parts of the city walls of Dülmen . The tower with a square floor plan is located near the Lüdinghauser Tor and still shows the remains of the Dülmen city ​​wall on its side . The nunnery is the last of the three angular towers of the old fortification. Today's four-storey tower dates from the 16th century and was originally used as a powder tower. The city fortifications gradually fell into disrepair in the middle of the 17th century. The tower came into private ownership in 1730 and changed hands several times. The interior of the tower is now part of an apartment. The nuns tower was last renovated in 1982.

The name of the tower refers to the nearby and now closed nuns - convent of the Augustinian nuns with the name Agnetenberg , whose best known convent member was Anna Katharina Emmerick .

Nun's tower with passage to Probst-Dümpelmann-Weg (2012)

literature

• Erik Potthoff, Dietmar Rabich: Dülmen - yesterday and today . 1st edition. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89960-397-2 , Dülmen - Innenstadt, Nonnenturm, p. 42 f .

Web links

Commons : nun tower  - collection of images

• Erik Potthoff: Der Nonnenturm , Dülmener Heimatblätter , issue 2/2006 (Heimatverein Dülmen e.V.)

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 50 ″  E