Pigeon tower (Dorst)

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The Dorster Taubenturm is a pigeon tower in the Calvörder district of Dorst . The tower is on the site at Dorfstrasse 5. It is a listed building .

Architecture and history

The pigeon tower is presumably in the early days of Dorst as a tower reaching back from the schulenburgisches Vorwerk of Detzel Castle . It was created around the middle of the 19th century. The astonishingly spacious half-timbered architecture has an octagonal floor plan . The tower is two-story with tile infills and an eight-sided helmet roof with tile covering. In terms of construction type, architecture and age, this tower is also a notable monument in terms of cultural history .

gallery

  • Pigeon tower view west

  • Pigeon tower view north

literature

  • Mathias Köhler: Ohrekreis (I) (= Monument Register Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 10.1) - Imhof, Petersberg 2005

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41.1 ″  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 26.1 ″  E