Castle Tower (Düsseldorf)

Castle tower, view from the south

View from above

The castle tower is on Burgplatz in Düsseldorf and is used as a shipping museum.

description

The castle tower originally formed the northern end of the Düsseldorf castle . The first three floors of the tower date back to the 13th century. In 1552, Alessandro Pasqualini added a fourth, polygonal storey to the tower , which was decorated with Tuscan columns . The idea of a fifth floor came from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. His court architect Friedrich August Stüler implemented it in a design in the so-called round arch style in 1845 . In 1883, Eberhard Westhofen installed a new portal on the tower. The round arches on the fifth floor were also glazed. In 1909 the tracery attic was removed when a tent roof was built . The current tent roof dates from 1950. Since 1984 the tower has been home to the shipping museum . In 2001 the tower received a new interior design. In total, the height of the castle tower is 33 meters.

Weather vane

According to the city of Düsseldorf, the wind vane is the figure of a fire blower , which was suggested by the building construction department manager Julius Schulte-Frohlinde , designed by the municipal building construction department employee Neuber and made in copper in 1957 by the Düsseldorf sculptor Ferdi Walther . The figure is said to commemorate the castle fire in 1872 .

Individual evidence

↑ Annette Fimpeler-Philippen, Sonja Schürmann: The castle in Düsseldorf. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-1120-1 , p. 74.
↑ The castle tower was rebuilt after it was destroyed in the war in 1950–1953. The Catholic youth of Düsseldorf had collected for the reconstruction. She used the tower for group lessons for several years. Annette Fimpeler-Philippen, Sonja Schürmann: The castle in Düsseldorf. 1999, p. 82 f.
↑ See letter from the city of Düsseldorf ( Jörg Heimeshoff ) dated November 14, 2011 (Az. 63/40-DS-0624/11) to the Hermann-Harry-Schmitz-Societät Düsseldorf ( PDF )

literature

Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , No. 11 on p. 9.

Web links

Commons : Schlossturm - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation

51.2275 6.7711111111111Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 39 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 16 ″ E

[1] Annette Fimpeler-Philippen, Sonja Schürmann: The castle in Düsseldorf. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-1120-1 , p. 74.

[2] The castle tower was rebuilt after it was destroyed in the war in 1950–1953. The Catholic youth of Düsseldorf had collected for the reconstruction. She used the tower for group lessons for several years. Annette Fimpeler-Philippen, Sonja Schürmann: The castle in Düsseldorf. 1999, p. 82 f.

[3] See letter from the city of Düsseldorf ( Jörg Heimeshoff ) dated November 14, 2011 (Az. 63/40-DS-0624/11) to the Hermann-Harry-Schmitz-Societät Düsseldorf ( PDF )