Lahr stork tower
| Lahr stork tower | ||
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 The stork tower in Lahr |
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| Alternative name (s): | Lahr Castle | |
| Creation time : | between 1220 and 1235 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | two towers, remains of a wall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Lahr | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 20 '20.5 " N , 7 ° 52' 20.9" E | |
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The Lahr Storchenturm , also known as Lahr Castle , is the surviving remnant of a medieval moated castle and the landmark of the city of Lahr . It takes its name from the storks that regularly brooded there until the 1960s and found food in the wet meadows around the city.
history
The Lahr castle may have been built by the von Geroldseck lords between 1220 and 1235. In any case, in 1250 Walter I von Geroldseck and his son were arrested "in his castle in Lahr" by Konrad von Freiburg . After the division of the Geroldseck house in 1277, it became the family seat of the Lower Lordship. In 1426 the Lahr line of the Geroldsecker died out, whereupon the Lahr castle went one after the other mainly to various lines of the Nassau family ( Nassau-Saarbrücken , Nassau-Weilburg , Nassau-Usingen ). The castle survived the Thirty Years' War without damage, but was destroyed by the French under François de Créquy on September 15, 1677 and so damaged in an earthquake on August 3, 1728 that it was bought by the city of Lahr in 1757 and now has the stork tower was removed. The latter functioned as a prison until 1861.
investment
The Niederungsburg was a regular rectangular system with four round towers in the corners and thus followed the well-known late Staufer type as it also exists in Sicily with the Castello Ursino in Catania and the Castello Maniace in Syracuse . From this time in Germany it only occurs at the neighboring Dautenstein Castle in Seelbach and at Neuleiningen Castle .
The stork tower was the north tower of the complex and now houses a small exhibition on the history of the moated castle. Its viewing platform offers a beautiful panoramic view of the old town and the foothills.
The east tower was uncovered in the 1980s and is located in the basement of the former Cafe Kopf (Marktstrasse, can no longer be visited). The foundations of the south tower were exposed and removed during the construction of the department store in the 1960s; the west tower was buried under a concrete ceiling in 2003.
In June 2011 the stork tower was closed because pieces of sandstone threatened to fall and cracks in the masonry were discovered. After an extensive renovation, during which the statics of the tower were stabilized and extensive sandstone restorations were carried out, it was reopened in September 2016.
literature
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Tübingen 1908, Seventh Volume - District Offenburg; Pp. 43–56 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University Library ).
- Karl Meurer: The Tiefburg to Lahr . In: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Issue 21: Castles and Palaces in Central Baden , 1934, pp. 496–507 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Karl List: The Tiefburg Lahr - a Hohenstaufen castle . In: Newsletter of the preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 9, No. 3-4, 1966, pp. 80–91 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- Karl List: The Tiefburg Lahr . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Volume 64. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 , pp. 313–319 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
Web links
- Entry on Lahr in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Lahr, Storchenturm at landeskunde-online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Stork Tower is open to visitors again ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung , September 12, 2016, accessed on September 14, 2016.