City Wall (Darmstadt)

city ​​wall
City wall with Hinkel tower (2011)
Data
place	Darmstadt
Construction year	from 1330
Coordinates	49 ° 52 '19.5 "  N , 8 ° 39' 33.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '19.5 "  N , 8 ° 39' 33.1"  E

The city ​​wall in Darmstadt is a cultural monument .

History and description

The first Darmstadt city wall was built from rubble stones with square towers from 1330 . The construction of the kennel in front of it and the outer ring fortifications began at the beginning of the 15th century . The outer wall is approximately 2 feet (0.57 m) thick. The inner one is approximately 4 feet (1.14 m) thick. The width of the kennel averages approximately 15 feet (4.25 m).

Of the watchtowers, only the Hinkel tower still exists today . The Hinkelsturm was up to the year 1944 with a shallow pitched roof covered. The inner wall had a shingled roof. In the 17th century the tower walls had a steep hipped roof .

For the construction of the city wall and the watchtowers, mostly volcanic basalt rocks ( melaphyre ) were used.

Picture gallery

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  City Wall (2013)

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  City Wall (2013)

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  City Wall (2015)

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  City Wall (2016)

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  City Wall (2016)

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  City wall on the Erich-Ollenhauer-Promenade (2016)

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  City wall on Alexanderstraße (2016)

literature

• Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. ( Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 93.
• Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 and ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , pp. 868ff.

Web links

Commons : Stadtmauer (Darmstadt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthias Hinderer in: Darmstädter Echo, Wednesday, November 1, 2017, p. 17