White flour sack

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The place of the flour sack today

The white flour sack was a defense tower of the Upper Swabian town of Memmingen . It was canceled in 1805.

location

The tower stood on the western corner of the so-called Ulmer Vorstadt between the Ulmer Tor and the swallowtail tower .

Appearance

The white flour sack was a round tower made of bricks . The roof was also round, pulled up and closed with a small weather vane . It was covered with roof tiles . According to old city views, he had a gallery with loopholes under the roof. It was one of the few towers in the city that was plastered and whitewashed.

history

Reminder plaque on the rest of the flour sack

The tower was built as a gun turret when the city was last expanded in 1445. Its main purpose was to secure the Ulmer Tor next to it and the Grimmelschanze in front of it. It was canceled in 1805 on the orders of the French. They actually wanted to demolish the entire city fortifications, but at the request of the citizens they spared them except for five towers. The name was derived from its appearance. The white liming made it look like a sack of flour .

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer : City and district of Memmingen (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 4 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1959, ZDB -ID 256533-X , p. 32 .

Web links

Commons : Stadtbefestigung Memmingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 44.5 ″  E