Stock tower (Nienburg / Weser)
The stock tower in Nienburg / Weser was part of Nienburg Castle , which belonged to the Counts of Hoya .
description
The stock tower is a free-standing brick tower and features elements of the Renaissance style . There is a stairwell on the east side of the tower. There are bay windows on the east, south and west sides . The top of the four storeys is a half-timbered structure. The roof is a simple pyramid roof made of red tiles.
It is not known what the original purpose of the stock tower was. It is sometimes referred to as a battery tower . It was part of Nienburg Castle, which emerged from a moated castle . The castle was an independent defense system within the city fortifications of Nienburg . On a Merian copper engraving from 1647, a smaller tower can be seen next to the main tower of the castle, which is somewhat similar to today's stock tower. It was probably a defense or residential tower. The tower may have been higher earlier or had a different roof finish.
history
The tower was built in the first half of the 16th century. At the same time, the Counts of Hoya expanded the Nienburg into a representative castle. The castles Stadthagen and Bückeburg were models . After the death of the last Count von Hoya (1582), the castle served as the seat of Drosten of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and as the official seat. During the Thirty Years War the castle and outbuildings were partially destroyed and after the Thirty Years War they were completely demolished. Only the stock tower remained. The area of the former castle and fortifications was built on with military barracks in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the district court, district office, prison, building trade school (later a technical college, now Lower Saxony police academy ) and district building followed, and in the 21st century an electronics store. At times there was also a bus station there.
After the castle was demolished, the stock tower served as a prison tower ("im Stock" = trapped). As with the Stockhof Hameln , the name is obviously based on the fact that the prisoners were connected to a stick at night because of the risk of escape . In 1975 the tower from Stockturm e. V. renovated and since then used by the Rühmkorffbund (association of the former Nienburg college students) as a museum and by the Corps Hannoverania (a student association) as a liaison house. There are also several rooms in the tower that are rented to students.
literature
- Heinrich Gade : History of the city of Nienburg on the Weser. With special reference to the history of the Counts of Hoya. Edited from the sources by Heinrich Gade. 1862; Original reprint: Lesberg, Nienburg (Weser) 1974, ISBN 3-920244-06-0
- Heinrich Gade: Historical-geographic-statistical description of the counties Hoya and Diepholz . Nienburg 1901.
- Walter Read Mountain: Nienburg . Nienburg 1990.
- Rainer Sabelleck : Nienburg. In: Herbert Obenaus. (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel).
- Hermann Ziegler: Living history in stone. A tour through the old town of Nienburg . 2nd Edition. Nienburg / Weser 1991, ISBN 3-920244-11-7 , 70 pp. numerous Fig.
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing of the Nienburg Castle by Wolfgang Braun
- Photos from the stock tower at the Photo Archive Photo Marburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 15.1 ″ E