Tower Baur
The Baur tower is part of the bridgehead on the southern bank of the Danube of the Ingolstadt fortress and served as the western flank tower of the Reduit Tilly . It was built in the classical style between 1828 and 1841 as a flat-roofed ring-shaped complex and has been named after the Bavarian quartermaster Carl von Baur (1771–1847) since 1911 . Before that, another fortress that was demolished in 1911 bore the same name. The plan comes from the fortress builder Major General Michael von Streiter , the limestone-faced facades with a pictorial monumentality come from Leo von Klenze . The eastern flank tower, the Triva tower, is almost identical in construction . The dimensions are 50 m × 79 m, the thickness of the walls is up to 4 meters. Originally the building with its 58 barrel-vaulted gun casemates on two levels served to keep an approaching enemy at a distance. Today the building houses the Municipal Simon Mayr Singing and Music School Ingolstadt, in summer the oval inner courtyard is used as an open-air stage for the Ingolstadt Municipal Theater or as an open-air cinema.
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literature
- Ernst Aichner : The expansion and the beginning of the abandonment of the Bavarian state fortress Ingolstadt . Phil. Dissertation Munich, 1974.
- Gerhard Wickern, Eduard Eiser: Die Bayerische Landesfestung Ingolstadt , Förderverein Bayerische Landesfestung Ingolstadt (ed.), 1st edition, espresso-Verlag, Ingolstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-98-10765-5-4 .
- Frank Becker, Christina Grimminger, Karlheinz Hemmeter Monuments in Bavaria. City of Ingolstadt . Volume I.1, half volume 1 of the monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich, 2002. ISBN 3-87490-583-7 , pp. XCIII – CXXII.
- Ernst Aichner et al. Stories & faces. Ingolstadt - about becoming a city . Illustrated book for the exhibition in Klenzepark, Ingolstadt, 2000. ISBN 3-932113-30-6 , pp. 140–169.
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 29 " N , 11 ° 25 ′ 46" E