Stork Tower (Tiengen)

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Access to the stork tower in Tiengen
Photo from the 1950s by Richard Peter

The stork tower is the only surviving of the five defensive towers of the former city wall of the city ​​of Tiengen and is a landmark of the city.

history

The tower was first mentioned as a thief tower in 1525 . It served as a prison sporadically until the 18th century. It is built from Wacker and quarry stone in a semicircle. The roof changed its shape several times, after a pyramid-shaped structure at the beginning of the 17th century, a monopitch roof followed , and around 1800 it was a round pointed roof . In the 18th century, the fortification of the city was continuously abandoned. The tower standing in a southwest corner was owned by the princes of Schwarzenberg . In 1823, the Baden state, as their successor, sold the tower to private customers. After the acquisition by the pharmacist Schill, he had a wooden arbor with a pointed roof attached to the tower in 1898. The capped tip bears an iron ring for a (today unused) stork's nest, from which the name of the tower has been derived ever since. The pharmacist Schill picked up the storks that brooded on the east gable of Tiengen Castle between 1894 and 1898, but were no longer tolerated there. Since 1930 the city of Tiengen has been the owner of the tower, which has since been extensively restored several times.

literature

  • Heinz Voellner: The old Klettgau capital Tiengen. Development and shape. In: Badische Heimat. 33rd year 1953, issue 2, pp. 87-100. PDF (with old photo with storks)
  • Heinz Voellner: Tiengen Pictures of an Old City. 1987, OCLC 313312155 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 2.9 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 30.8"  E