Tower Schwibbogenplatz 2 f

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Tower Schwibbogenplatz 2 f (east side), 2014

The tower Schwibbogenplatz 2 f , occasionally also the water tower at Schwibbogenplatz or Forsterturm , is located in Augsburg's Am Schäfflerbach district , which is part of the Augsburg city center planning area . In the past, the small tower was primarily used as a private water tower to irrigate the Schaur garden .

Location and architecture

The tower is located away from the actual Schwibbogenplatz and east of the house Schwibbogenplatz 3 and is somewhat hidden between new residential buildings in a triangle formed by Wagenhalsstraße (east of the tower) and Provinostraße (south). One of the Lech canals in Augsburg's old town , the Sparrenlech, flows between the tower and Wagenhalsstrasse . It is fed by the Lech via the Kaufbach and flows into the Jakobervorstadt near the Vogeltor .

The small tower has a square substructure, while the upper floors built on it have an octagonal floor plan. At the top the tower is closed by a neo-Gothic frieze and a crenellated wreath . The three-story brick building is plastered and painted in a yellow ocher tone.

The tower is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.

history

The large garden plot in front of the Schwibbogentor was initially owned by the von Stetten family of Augsburg from 1681 . In 1715 it went to the distiller, chemist and imperial councilor Johann Caspar Schaur (1681–1761). Schaur operated a distillery on a neighboring property and around 1735 temporarily also a faience factory , which according to some sources was probably located on his garden property . With the “universal balm” developed by him and his son Georg Matthias - a “panacea for humans and animals” - the family made some wealth.

The former Schaur'sche garden with the tower (back center), engraving from the 18th century

As a result, various construction measures have been taken on the park-like property. A two-storey villa at Schwibbogenplatz 1 served the Schaurs as a garden palace. Johann Caspar Schaur had the park laid out as a baroque pleasure garden. The so-called Schaur'sche Garten was lavishly designed with large aviaries , fountains , grottos , borders and an orangery and was considered a sight of the city. The small tower built on the eastern border of the garden property directly on the Sparrenlech was used both as a viewing tower (“ Belvedere ”) and as a private water tower: the fountains in the garden were fed from a high reservoir in the tower. The core of the tower structure can be dated to 1740.

Around 1790 the garden was sold to the merchant Karl August Strauss and then became the property of the Carli banking family . The austere baroque gardens were transformed into a small English park . The surrounding properties were increasingly being built on for commercial purposes. In the north, the Schöppler und Hartmann calico printing company was established , which later operated as the Neue Augsburger Calico Factory. One of their co-owners, Julius Forster, acquired the park property.

To the south of the property, there were also factory buildings for the weaving mill on Sparrenlech founded by the textile company Schöppler and Hartmann , which was later taken over by Kahn & Arnold and expanded by building its own spinning mill . The former garden palace has now become a director's villa. The tower was redesigned in the 19th century and received a battlements.

Today the factory buildings have disappeared and the extensive garden plot was built on with large apartment blocks in a row construction at the end of the 1970s . The former director's villa is now used by the Augsburg City Youth Council .

Details

On the west side of the tower there is a balcony above the substructure, which previously provided a view of the gardens. The historical balcony railing, a blacksmith's work , and the small dragon - sculpture made of bronze on the railing tell of the earlier elaborate design of the garden.

  • View of the tower and the rafter from the south

  • The viewing balcony on the west side

  • Dragon plastic on the balcony railing

  • Kite plastic

See also

literature

  • Gregor Nagler: 111 places in Augsburg that you have to see . 3. Edition. Emons, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-598-1 , pp. 202–203 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Gregor Nagler: Almost Eden. The property at Lochgässchen 19 and the Augsburg garden culture of the imperial city era . In: University of Augsburg , European Ethnology / Folklore (Ed.): Augsburger Volkskundliche Nachrichten . Issue 2, No. 47 , November 2018, p. 13-48 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Turm Schwibbogenplatz 2 f  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Augsburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, monument number D-7-61-000-940
  2. ^ Christian Probst : Traveling healers and drug dealers. Medicine from Marktplatz and Landstrasse . Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1992, ISBN 3-475-52719-7 , p. 113–115 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b c d Gregor Nagler: 111 places in Augsburg that you have to see. Cologne 2016, pp. 202–203 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b c Schaurscher garden. In: Stadtlexikon Augsburg . wissner.com , January 13, 2012, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Franz Häußler: The Schaurhaus was a picture book. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. July 6, 2017, accessed August 9, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 46.9 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 26.6 ″  E