Water art (Naumburg)
The Wasserkunst is a tower of the medieval fortifications of the city of Naumburg (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt .
The tower standing directly on the Wenceslas Wall was built around 1480 from quarry stone masonry on a square floor plan. After the city fortifications were abandoned for defense purposes, the 17th and 18th centuries. Century a conversion to water art with the simultaneous installation of a water catchment basin.
The tower has three brick floors and a fourth, which is made as a plastered framework . The windows were enlarged to enable residential use. The tower is crowned by a hipped roof . On the east side of the tower there is a passage through the Wenceslas Wall.
literature
- Ernst Schubert, Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt II, Dessau and Halle administrative districts , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , page 604
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 59.6 " N , 11 ° 48 ′ 27.5" E