Water Tower (Nuremberg)

The water tower next to the Weinstadel, 2009 ...

... and 1891

The water tower is a wall tower in the west of the penultimate Nuremberg city ​​fortifications .

Location and surroundings

The tower stands on the north bank of the Pegnitz and is structurally connected to the neighboring Weinstadel . It is connected to the smaller executioner's tower on the flea market island in the Pegnitz by a two-arched sandstone bridge overbuilt with half-timbering and a gable roof .

history

The square tower was built in 1320-25. The lower floors were built from humpback blocks, the upper two from brick. The tower is provided with notches and windows and has a hipped roof . It originally protected the Pegnitz river, but lost its function when the last city fortifications were built in 1400 and was then used as a prison.

In a plan from 1940 for the redevelopment of the north bank of the Pegnitz, the demolition of the structure was planned. The water tower is used today - together with the Weinstadel - as a student residence.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wiltrud Fischer-Pache: water tower . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 1159 ( complete edition online ).
2. ↑ http://www.nuernberginfos.de/bauwerke-nuernberg/wasserturm.html

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '12.7 "  N , 11 ° 4' 24.3"  E