Pocket Tower (Munich)

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The pocket tower was a defense tower of the second city wall of medieval Munich .

location

The pocket tower was the southern neighbor of the inlet gate . It stood on Prälat-Zistl-Strasse (previously called Taschenturmgässchen), as indicated by a plaque on the house on Prälat-Zistl-Strasse 8: “Thirty feet across the street [about 10 m] was the Taschenthurm, which was used as a prison and demolished in 1822 [sic] “The name of the tower, first mentioned in 1397, comes very probably from the fact that the tower, unlike the other towers, was covered with flat roof tiles (= pockets). Brigitte Huber is not convinced of this explanation and is thinking more of the concept of a coat of arms, a tartsche, written in Middle High German tarsche . She was able to determine that in 1462 the city chamber had spent money for 4 bags to be ground to the bag tower .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmuth Stahleder, House and street names in Munich's old town, Munich 1992, p. 647f
  2. ^ B. Huber: Walls, gates, bastions - Munich and its fortifications. Volk Verlag, Munich 2015 (pp. 86–87 Der Taschenturm.)

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 5.2 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 29.1 ″  E