Tatar tower

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View from the tower behind the exit at the Möllenvogtei to the Tatar tower ; in the background the remter of the cathedral exam
1955

The Tatar tower is a former defense tower of the city ​​fortifications of Magdeburg's old town .

History and architecture

According to the Schöppenchronik, the tower was built in 1239, according to other information, in 1241 at the instigation of Archbishop Wilbrand von Käfernburg in the course of measures to fortify the city in view of feared attacks by Tatars (actually Mongols ), which, however, came after their victory over a Polish-German knight army Returned to Mongolia in 1241 near Liegnitz for domestic political reasons . It is therefore significantly older than the two other defensive towers Kiek in de Köken and the tower behind the Möllenvogtei exit . Magdeburg Cathedral is to the west of the tower, to the east was originally the lower foreland to the Elbe . The Tatar tower stood at the southern end of the retaining wall that supported the higher cathedral area opposite the Elbe foothills, on the floor of which the tower was founded. The lower part of the tower was then probably covered by an embankment as part of the construction work on the Cleve roundabout a little to the south in 1536.

In the 18th century, when the defense towers had long since lost their original military function, the Fürstenwall with casemates and a promenade was built east of the tower . In 1899, a gateway was built from the remtergang to the west through the first floor of the tower to the Fürstenwall, in order to connect the area around the Domplatz with the Fürstenwall. For this purpose, the ground on the east side was raised by around 4 to 5 meters. The Tatar tower was heavily rebuilt and looks like a two-story house from the Fürstenwall today. The Tatar tower is covered with a hipped roof . The total height of the tower is 11.0 meters, with a rectangular floor plan of 10.2 by 6.0 meters. The masonry made of red rubble stone has a wall thickness of about 1.3 meters. In the basement of the tower there is a vault with a window on the north side. On the upper floor, on the west side, next to the passage, the remainder of a walled-in arch can be seen. On the north side of the second floor of the still is greywacke -made garment to recognize a bricked-up window.

literature

  • Heinz Gerling : Monuments of the City of Magdeburg , Helmut-Block-Verlag, Magdeburg 1991, ISBN 3-910173-04-4 , page 110
  • Helmut Menzel: Der Fürstenwall , City Planning Office Magdeburg 2001, page 21 f.
  • Sabine Ullrich: Magdeburg - Architektur und Städtebau , Verlag Janos Stekovics, Halle an der Saale 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4 , page 57
  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 465

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schöppenchronik, quoted from Menzel, Fürstenwall, page 22
  2. ^ List of monuments, page 465
  3. ^ Gerling, Monuments of the City of Magdeburg, page 110
  4. ↑ Ullrich, Magdeburg - Architecture and Urban Development, page 57
  5. ^ Menzel, Fürstenwall, page 21

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 26.2 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 8 ″  E