Wendish tower
The Wendish Tower , in Sorbian , is part of the medieval city fortifications of Bautzen . It is located on the northeastern edge of the old town and is today structurally connected to the old barracks ( Stara kasena ) by Gottfried Semper . For centuries, the Via Regia ran through the adjacent Wendish Gate, which no longer exists today.
history
The name of the Wendish tower is derived from the Sorbian (Wendish) settlement that was located in the area of today's Wendische Strasse north of the German craftsmen's settlement (on Reichenstrasse ) in the early Middle Ages . The quadrangular substructure was built around the same time as the Lauenturm and the substructure of the student tower , i.e. at the beginning of the 15th century. The round superstructure was built between 1478 and 1492 at the same time as the lower part of the imperial tower. In 1566, the wooden tip, which had been damaged by a storm and covered with slate, was replaced by a stone crown. In 1663 the city temporarily relocated the guilty prison to the Wendish Tower.
In 1834 the adjacent Wendish Gate was removed. In 1841 the tower was also supposed to be demolished, since a new barracks was to be built at this point, as the many soldiers of the building, which was slowly developing into a garrison town, lived in normal apartments until then. There was a building design by a certain Lieutenant Kimmel, who took no account of the existing building structures and the medieval city. The citizens therefore called Gottfried Semper for help. He not only included the tower in his new plans, but also designed the barracks for 350 soldiers in the medieval design language of the tower and the old city wall. This rescue operation was by no means typical for large parts of Germany at that time and represents an early form of monument protection. The tax office had been using this building since 1933. After intermittent interruptions, this authority moved back into the old barracks in July 1990 . The exterior of the tower was restored in 1992.
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Ancient water art (Stara Wodarnja) | Gerber's Bastion (Garbarska bašta) | Lauenturm (Lawska wěža) | Matthias Tower (Maćijowa wěža) | Monk's Bastion (Mniša bašta) | Mlynská (Mlynská bašta) | Mill Gate (Mlynske Wrota) | Nicolaiturm (Mikławska wěža) | Ortenburg (Hród) | Imperial Tower (Bohata wěža) | Röhrscheidtbastei (Röhrscheidtowa bašta) | Students tower (Šulerska Węża) | Wendish Tower (Serbska wěža)
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 54.9 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 38.4" E