Terror Storm

Terror storm in 2012, view from the east of the Goldstrasse onto the tower

Terror tower and Goldstrasse around 1910

The Schrecksturm , also known as Schreckensdüvel , is a medieval defense tower of the city fortifications of the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . In modern times, holiday apartments were set up in the landmarked tower .

History and architecture

The tower is located in the western part of the old city fortifications in the extension of Goldstrasse near the Sankt Aegidii Church and is one of the strongest towers of the Quedlinburg fortifications. It belongs to the city fortifications of Quedlinburg, which is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register . Its height is 40 meters and the walls are almost two meters thick. It has five floors, with the two lower floors being arched. Originally, the tower was also used as a hole prison and torture chamber , which explains the name. Prisoners were lowered into the lightless room by a rope through a hole in the ceiling of the barrel vault . A later owner of the tower is said to have found various human remains in this dungeon .

On the city side, the upper floors were originally open. They were then later closed with half-timbered walls to enable the rooms to be used. The tower is crowned with an octagonal pointed helmet , which is flanked by small corner towers.

The tower was expanded with apartments in the 18th century. At that time, the windows were also enlarged. Originally there were so-called biforium windows , narrow, open double windows with clover-leaf arches divided by pillars profiled with throats .

At the beginning of the 21st century, the tower had been privately owned for four generations. Several renovations followed, although a number of medieval beams and floor coverings were still preserved in their original form. After another restoration, holiday apartments were set up in the tower.

literature

Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 741.
Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg. A guide to the world heritage city. 13th edition. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , p. 64.
State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle / Saale 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 52.

Web links

Commons : Schreckensturm (Quedlinburg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg. A guide to the world heritage city. 13th edition. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , p. 64.

51.792751 11.141419Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 33.9 " N , 11 ° 8 ′ 29.1" E

[hoffmann-64-1] Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg. A guide to the world heritage city. 13th edition. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , p. 64.