Powder Tower (Demmin)
The round tower , usually referred to as the powder tower , is the only remaining tower of the Demmin city fortifications . This included 10 towers with a round and 17 with a rectangular base. It is located on Turmstrasse south of the Luisentore in Demmin . It is not known where the name “ Powder Tower ” comes from; that the tower could have been used to store gunpowder is considered unlikely in the literature.
The tower was first mentioned in 1546 as a "gloomy cellar". It was completed in 1570 and 1571. In order to win the masons for the work, which was not considered to be honorable, the city council donated a total of seven barrels of beer. Located next to the executioner's apartment , the tower also served as a prison. Obviously until the middle of the 18th century, because the pastor and chronicler Wilhelm Karl Stolle described it in his History of the City of Demmin, published in 1772, with the words "was used as a prison for offenders, but has now been walled up a few years ago".
The roof shape of the tower was changed several times. In 1902 it received a wall crown with battlements , which was later replaced by the current tower dome.
literature
- Karl Goetze: History of the city of Demmin edited on the basis of the Demmin Council Archives, the Stollesche Chronik and other sources . Demmin 1903, reprint 1997, ISBN 3-89557-077-X
- Wolfgang Fuhrmann: The Hanseatic City of Demmin in old and new views . GEROS Verlag Neubrandenburg 1998, ISBN 3-935721-00-5 , pp. 124-125
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Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '23.8 " N , 13 ° 2' 16.8" E