Watch tower
As a watchtower , waiting , Warth , Watchtower , Country Wait , Landturm or Castle Waiting is a mostly single-standing, often by Wall and moat surrounded observation tower called.
History and architecture
In the late Middle Ages, waiting towers were built, for example, on trade routes as customs posts or in the run-up to cities, in order to warn of the approach of enemy troops by means of flag or light signals. The name comes from the mhd. Word wait , peeking looking.
The entrance door of a guard tower was usually several meters high and in this case was only accessible via a ladder, which the tower guard pulled in in the event of danger. Some waiting towers fulfilled a castle-like function, examples of which are the Friedberger Warte in Frankfurt am Main or the Hellenwarte near Fritzlar . Since the late 15th century, guard towers have often been integrated into land defense services, as was the case with the Lindener Tower on Lindener Berg in Hanover .
The escort is a special case, which did not primarily fulfill a warning function for the urban defense, but, preferably erected on trade routes ( old streets ), was supposed to protect traveling traders to the edge of a ruled area and sometimes served as an escort station. One such example is the Berger Warte , verifiable since 1340 , a watch tower northeast of the city of Frankfurt am Main outside the city's Landwehr .
The stone tower in Dortmund
The Galluswarte in Frankfurt am Main
Warturm in the urban forest of Gransee
Eichstädter Warte with high entrance and remains of a bay, Langeneichstädt
Mouse Tower of Bingen , waiting and customs tower on Rheininsel, Bingerbrück
Liebenburg , a Hausmannsturm built outside the castle complex
Donjon-like Romanesque watchtower Stone bag of the Waischenfeld castle ruins
Examples
- Altenstädter Warte near Naumburg, Hesse
- Berger Warte , Frankfurt-Seckbach
- Bienstädter Warte
- Binger Mouse Tower , Bingerbrück , Rhineland-Palatinate
- Burgwarte (Bad Soden)
- Eichstädter Warte , Langeneichstädt , Saxony-Anhalt
- Erbenheimer Warte , Wiesbaden-Erbenheim
- Heiketalwarte at Zilly
- Heinturm near Warburg
- Hellenwarte near Fritzlar
- Breitenbrunn hunting lodge , former watch tower, Saxony
- Liebenburg (Liebenburg) , outside the castle complex, built around 1290–1302 Hausmannsturm , Liebenburg , Lower Saxony
- Linden Tower in Hanover
- Magdeburg observation point in Helmstedt
- Passklausenturm , Tannenberg , whether an abandoned castle complex existed is disputed, Saxony
- square keep-like watch tower from 1485, integrated into Schönberg Castle (Vogtland) , Schönberg am Kapellenberg , Saxony
- Rieswarte near Göttingen-Nikolausberg
- Round tower in Andernach
- Soestwarte at Beckum
- Blunt tower in Bad Salzuflen
- Sulbergwarte near Duderstadt
- 1st and 2nd Walbeck observation point near Helmstedt ( observation towers of the Helmstedt Landwehr )
- Wartberg Tower (Alzey)
- Guard tower of the Bachgauer Landwehr near Schaafheim
- Watch tower in Buchen (Odenwald)
- Guard tower in Hof , part of a system of guard towers of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
- Guard tower in Lübbecke
- Watch tower (Saalbach-Hinterglemm) , watch and storage tower in Saalbach-Hinterglemm
- Bad Orb's guard tower , part of the city fortifications
- Watch tower in Weingarten
- Waiting towers around Fulda , seven preserved towers and probably two lost ones
- Westdorfer Warte near Aschersleben
- Wittelsberger Warte in Wittelsberg near Marburg
such as:
- Anklamer Landwehr with waiting area Hoher Stein (Anklam) , Anklam , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Keep-like watch tower of the ruins of the Neudek tower castle , Nejdek , Czech Republic
- Dortmund waiting system with preserved stone tower
- Frankfurter Landwehr with four preserved towers: Friedberger Warte , Sachsenhäuser Warte , Galluswarte (watch tower) , Bockenheimer Warte (watch tower) , near Frankfurt am Main
- Güstrower Landwehr with several formerly Wart towers as castles were designated
- Hannoversche Landwehr , horse tower , Döhrener tower and Lister tower preserved, Hanover , Lower Saxony
- Parchimer Landwehr with fishing tower (Stralendorf) , Rome (Mecklenburg) , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Quedlinburg waiting system , Quedlinburg , Saxony-Anhalt
- Speyer Landwehr with preserved Worms observation tower , in Speyer
See also
literature
- Michael Losse : Wait. In: Horst Wolfgang Böhme , Reinhard Friedrich, Barbara Schock-Werner (Hrsg.): Dictionary of castles, palaces and fortresses. Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-010547-1 , pp. 259-260, doi: 10.11588 / arthistoricum.535 .