Stork Tower (Gunzenhausen)

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The stork tower in July 2012

The Storchenturm , historically also the three-brother tower , is part of the former city ​​fortifications of Gunzenhausen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-136-111 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The stork tower is located on the southeastern part of Gunzenhausen's old town. The postal address is Sonnenstraße 23.

The building was erected around 1450 and first mentioned in 1665 as the "Drey Brothers Tower". The origin of the name is not known. The structure was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War ; the tower was probably originally twice as high. It is two-story and has a tent roof . In 1749 the beer brewer and host Michael Störzer acquired the Storchenturm, which was converted into a residential building with the addition of an annex . In 1801 Peter Uhlmann acquired the tower and ran a guest business in it . The Storchenturm has been owned by the Uhlmann-Fischer family since 1869.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Storchenturm or Dreibrüderturm in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ a b c d The history of the Gunzenhausen stork tower, www.storchenfischer.de, accessed on December 10, 2013
  3. ↑ Stork Tower. A historical "war victim" : www.altmuehlfranken.de; Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, accessed on December 10, 2013

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '45.33 "  N , 10 ° 45' 26.38"  O