Scheibleinsturm (Weißenburg)
The Scheibleinsturm (also called Scheibler ) is a tower in the city wall of the Middle Franconian city of Weißenburg in Bavaria . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-177-392 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list.
The tower was built in the 14th or 15th century and is located in Weißenburg's old town on the section of the city moat that has been almost completely preserved along the Schanzmauer. It has the address Schanzmauer 8 and is located near the street Am Hof . The three-storey, 16 m high and 8.5 m wide building is listed. The tower was originally higher. It is the only remaining round tower on the city wall. For a long time it was one of the city's prisons. Today it is inhabited together with the building that was added in 1846. The Scheibleinsturm was renovated in 1989 and 1996.
The story The Katzenlore in the city wall tower by Else Model takes place in the Scheibleinsturm.
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the Scheibleinsturm
- ↑ Weissenburg i. Bay. (PDF; 4192 kB) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ wug2000.de ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Excursion in Weißenburg
- ↑ Else Model , www.wugwiki.de; Retrieved March 17, 2013
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '50.1 " N , 10 ° 58' 7.8" E