Towers

The small tower on the Leine , part of the former city ​​fortifications of Hanover on the former Kingdom of Heaven , here with a view towards Karmarschstrasse with the Wangenheimpalais (right), the Lower Saxony state parliament (left) and the Marktkirche

The sink tower in Hanover is the only visible remnant of the hydraulic engineering facilities of the former city ​​fortifications of Hanover as a drainage marker with its approximately 20 meter long water ferry . The site of the listed complex from the 16th century is Culemannstrasse on the west bank of the Leine at the southern end of the bridge to Friedrichswall .

Description and history

The visible, about 20 meters long, sloping embankment wall on the Leine is only part of the former bastionary defense system at this point in the city. Together with the - today filled in - other half of the stone wall made of ashlars , the barrier with a passage for regulating the water level separated the main arm of the Leine from the Ratsfischteich . This was part of the former city ​​moat between the two arms of the Leine, which formed the former Leine Island Little Venice , and was later buried.

The octagonal Sieltürmchen was the Bähre (also: Bäre ), the water passage with a slice in the turrets for filling or emptying of 1588 established the moat and the subsequent Council pond, set up as architectural decorative Bekrönungspyramide and water side shows construction inscriptions , the coat of arms of the city and high-water marks of the period from 1588 to 1783. The tower top was renewed in 1962.

See also

• Flood in Hanover

literature

• Arnold Nöldeke : Die Kunstdenkmale der Stadt Hannover , Vol. 1, H. 2, Part 1, Monuments of the "old" city area Hannover , Hannover: Self-published by the provincial administration, Schulzes bookstore, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898 -151-1 ), p. 58
• Gerd Weiß: The post-medieval city fortifications. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 63f .; as well as: Calenberger Neustadt in the addendum to volume 10.2, list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 5f.
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Culemannstrasse. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 99
• Helmut Knocke: Small towers. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 565.

Web links

Commons : Sieltürmchen (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Helmut Knocke: Sieltürmchen (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gerd Weiß: The post-medieval city fortifications (see literature)
3. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Culemannstraße (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E