City fortifications of Rüthen
The city fortification of Rüthen was a medieval fortification to protect against attackers. Rüthen is located in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
History and architecture
The fortification of the 14th century connected four city gates and eleven towers with a city wall . The entire city wall was about 3000 meters long. The plant was to protect the residents z. B. in the Soest feud , in the Thirty Years War or in battles that the sovereigns waged against each other, and to ward off robber barons. The walls were between 1.20 meters and 1.80 meters wide and 3.00 meters to 3.50 meters high. The thickness of the wall tapered towards the top, where the battlement was protected by a wall crown, interrupted by observation and shooting gaps. In places where the city with its location on a mountain nose was not protected by steep slopes, but merged into the open country, double trenches were also dug.
The Hachtor and the semicircular witch's tower as well as extensive remains of the city wall have been preserved from the city fortifications . Today the former city wall is a circular route around the historic city center. A bronze relief depicting the eighth beatitude for the persecuted and slandered was attached in 1991 and commemorates the times of the burning of witches. It shows the portraits of the Jesuit father Friedrich Spee and the pastor Michael Stappert Michael Stapirius against the background of a witch burning.
literature
- Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler . North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 1174.