Rosenturm (Munich)

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The rose tower

The Rose Tower , originally Drächseltor called, was a gate tower of the city walls of the medieval Munich .

location

The rose tower was located in the Angerviertel in the east of Munich's old town about 100 m northeast of the inlet gate . Today this corresponds roughly to the point where the rose valley flows into the Viktualienmarkt.

history

The gate tower was probably built during the first city expansion in the first half of the 13th century. He offered from the south access to the 1,208 built Holy Spirit Hospital and lying to the east before the first city wall area, the city under the First Duke Ludwig had expanded.

The second city wall connected to one side of the gate tower and made a bend there from east to south. The rose tower now stood between the second city wall and the houses that had been built along the moat of the first wall. It therefore no longer served as a city gate, but as an entrance from the Anger to the Heilig-Geist-Spital. The function of the city gate was taken over by the neighboring inlet gate .

The gate tower was mentioned for the first time in 1319 as "porta Dornatoris", in 1315 a "Marquardus Tornator" was mentioned as the key custodian (custos) of a gate at his house. This Marquardus Tornator was Marquard Drächsel , the first city treasurer of Munich known by name and Chancellor of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian . The gate was called the Drächseltor after him. The house at the gate (Rinderplatz 4 with rear house Rosental 7) came into the possession of the Schrenck family through an inheritance through a daughter of Marquard , which is why the tower was named "Tower at Schrenck" in 1361 and 1371. As a result, the tower was often named after the owner of the adjacent house. B. 1408 as "Tower behind Rudolf". At that time, the city used the tower to store weapons.

In 1537 and 1538 the tower was first referred to as "Rosenthurn", and in 1545 as "Tower in Roßnthal". This suggests that the tower got this name from the street leading to it, which was called the Rose Valley as early as 1410.

In 1596 the house next to the tower was purchased by Duke Ferdinand, who asked the city to let him have the tower and to store the powder that had meanwhile been stored there elsewhere. In 1609 the city acquired the house and with it probably the tower again.

In 1666 the house came to the Toerring-Seefeld family , in 1695 the tower was sold to Maximilian Cajetan von Toerring-Seefeld . He had the tower torn down around 1712–1716 and an arch connected to his palace was built in its place from 1720, which was named "Seefeldbogen" after its builder. This arch was 1825-26 as part of the demolition demolished the city walls.

literature

  • Marie-Luise Hoffmann, Ruth Room: Gates and Towers . The fortifications between Isartor and Sendlinger Tor. In: Elfi Zuber (Ed.): The Angerviertel . Institut Bavaricum Munich Elfi Zuber, Munich 1991, p. 146 f .
  • Helmuth Stahleder : House and street names in Munich's old town . Hugendubel, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-88034-640-2 , p. 562-564, 605, 623-625 .

Web links

Commons : Rose Tower  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 31 ″  E