Rabensteiner Tower

Rabensteiner Tower in Budweis (field side)

City side

The Rabensteiner Tower (Czech Rabštejnská věž ) in Budweis (Czech České Budějovice ), the largest city in South Bohemia and the administrative seat of the South Bohemian Region in the Czech Republic , was built in the 14th / 15th centuries. Century erected. The city ​​gate has been a protected cultural monument since 1958.

history

The Rabensteiner Tower is named after a subprior of the nearby Dominican monastery . The tower was part of the medieval Budweiser city fortifications, the western part of which has largely been preserved up to the Iron Maiden tower in the south. The tower also served as a prison for the city guards for minor offenses.

Today there is a museum in the tower.

building

The plastered tower on the northern edge of the old town is built on a rectangular floor plan. The high hipped roof is interrupted by three bay windows. The remains of a battlement on corbels are preserved on the first floor. In the lower part you can find the remains of the former prison.

literature

• Baedeker Czech Republic. 6th edition, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-8297-1474-7 , p. 197.

Web links

Commons : Rabensteiner Turm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Juraj Thoma: Rabenštejnská věž . In: Scientifically edited online encyclopedia encyklopedie.c-budejovice.cz about Budweis ( Rabensteiner Tower ; Czech).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 16862 / 3-627 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 39.2 ″  N , 14 ° 28 ′ 18.9 ″  E