Eckersdorf residential tower
The residential tower Eckersdorf ( Polish Wieża mieszkalna w Biestrzykowie ) is a well-preserved medieval residential tower in Biestrzyków in the urban and rural community of Siechnice ( Tschechnitz ) in the powiat Wrocławski ( Breslau district ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . Along with the Boberröhrsdorf residential tower, the building is one of the best preserved medieval residential towers in Silesia .
history
The residential tower, first documented in a sales deed in 1411, belonged to Hofgut Eckersdorf, which had been in the possession of the Wroclaw Cathedral Chapter since before 1382 .
The three-storey residential tower was probably built in the 14th century as a brick shell and later plastered . A staircase was added to the west side in the 16th century. Further structural changes were made in the baroque period . The basement and the two lower floors are vaulted. The ground floor was probably used as a chapel .
The roof is steep and hipped on the narrow sides . On the ground floor there is an ogival closed window to the north and south, on the east side there are three ogival windows . The rectangular window openings on the two upper floors have a baroque plaster framing with earring . On the north side there is a round arched portal walled up except for a rectangular window and a rectangular window on each of the upper floors.
At the end of the war in 1945, as a result of which Silesia fell to Poland, the residential tower burned out. After the political change in 1989 it was restored before 2002.
literature
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 87 f.
- Günther Grundmann : Castles, palaces and manor houses in Silesia - Volume 1: The medieval castle ruins, castles and residential towers . Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8035-1161-5 , pp. 131-132.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 57 " N , 17 ° 2 ′ 24.8" E