Reckturm (Wiener Neustadt)

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The Reckturm with parts of the city wall is only preserved in the original in the lowest area and is mostly a reconstruction

The Reckturm is the northwest corner tower of the former city wall in Wiener Neustadt and dates from the early 13th century. The city fortification is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

During the foundation survey of the city on Whitsunday May 24, 1192, the northwest corner of the city fortifications, that is the Reckturm, was placed in a line with the portal point of the cathedral of Wiener Neustadt and the main point of the main square and the foundation point of the city on the main square. The tower initially served to protect the city and was used from the beginning of the modern era as an office and prison, especially for the embarrassing questioning , where the tower got its name from.

Towards the end of the 19th century, on the occasion of urban development measures, the Reckturm and the surrounding city wall began to be removed. In 1901, however, the Wiener Neustädter art historian Franz Staub managed to stop the demolition work and began with the reconstruction of the tower. In 1902 it was restored - now probably in the form it had looked in the middle of the 15th century. The Reckturm is the only corner tower of the former city wall that still exists today.

Two spiers (147 × 39 cm) with crescent moon (12.6 × 18.6 cm) made of bell metal, manufactured after 1834, are in the Wiener Neustadt City Museum .

museum

Today the Reckturm houses a small weapons and torture museum, which has been housed by the Wiener Neustädter Monument Protection Association on three floors of the tower since 1957 and recently also in the basement, which was rediscovered in 2004. Among other things, firearms from 1630 to 1950 as well as historical cutting and stabbing weapons and equipment of the Austro-Hungarian army can be viewed . The Reckturm is a listed building and is one of the sights of Wiener Neustadt today.

In 1994, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the city of Wiener Neustadt, a 6- schilling postage stamp with the Reckturm as a motif was published.

Web links

Commons : Reckturm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erwin Reidinger : Urban planning in the high Middle Ages: Wiener Neustadt - Marchegg - Vienna. In: European cities in the Middle Ages, research and contributions to the history of Vienna. Volume 52, Vienna 2010, pp. 155–176, ISBN 978-3-7065-4856-4
  2. ^ Gertrud Buttlar : City Museum Wiener Neustadt. Catalog, merbod-Verlag Wiener Neustadt 1995, ISBN 3-900844-39-9 , catalog p. 113.

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 59.5 ″  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 27.5 ″  E