Senheim residential tower

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The residential tower Senheim (also: Vogtei Senheim ) is a historic building in the municipality of Senheim .

Senheim residential tower

location

The tower that still exists today was part of the city ​​fortifications south of the town center of Senheim (Vogtei 4), a small local community on the right bank of the Moselle in the district of Cochem-Zell in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The residential tower was the residence of a noble family. In 1327 Otto Sunder von Senheim is proven to be the owner. Apparently, the bailiff of the place lived in the tower. The concept of the bailiwick was later transferred to the building. The Lords of Braunshorn were the owners of the Bailiwick in the 14th century, as a fiefdom of the Counts of Kleve . The Braunshorners had in turn lent the bailiwick to local knights. In the 14th century the Counts of Sponheim also received rights to the bailiwick. Later, various noble families owned the tower. The Romanesque tower was built in the style of that time in the first half of the 13th century during the Staufer era . The date of construction of today as a cultural monument under monument protection standing tower is not exactly known. While the local chronicle of the municipality of Senheim states “around 1200 AD”, “1220” and “1240 +/- 5 years due to dendrochronological investigations ”, the year of construction “around 1240” is mentioned in the list of monuments of the district of Cochem-Zell.

When the city wall of Senheim was built around 1307, the bailiwick and the tower were also included. From the 13th century until the occupation of the region by French revolutionary troops, the tower and the bailiwick were the official seat of the bailiffs of the respective sovereigns. While the remaining fortifications in the village were largely demolished , the residential tower was apparently not worth it due to its desolate condition at the time, so it was preserved. During the city fire on August 13, 1839, in which large parts of Senheim burned down, the Vogteiturm remained intact.

description

The tower has a footprint of 7.7 m × 9.5 m. It initially had three storeys above the vaulted cellar and a rather flat roof on a knee stick. There was only one room on each floor. The height to the roof approach was 12 meters. A renovation took place in 1471/72. Since then it has had four floors and a steep gable roof between the two gable sides. At the same time, half-timbered partition walls were drawn in inside . The stone tower is plastered and painted white.

Todays use

The tower, which was renovated in 1985, is now in the private ownership of the sculptor and draftsman Christoph Anders , who uses it as a studio and for exhibitions and lives in it himself.

literature

  • Heiko Laß, Maja Schmidt: Forms of representation of power in the first half of the 13th century on the Moselle - The residential towers in Ediger-Lehmen, Sehnheim and Karden , in: Olaf Wagener (Ed.): The castles on the Mosel. Files from the 2nd international scientific conference in Oberfell an der Mosel , Koblenz 2007, pp. 45–61.
  • Ferdinand Pauly: The high community Senheim on the Moselle. Boppard 1959, new edition 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1838-8 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Cochem-Zell district. Mainz 2020, p. 67 (PDF; 4.6 MB).
  2. ↑ Senheim residential tower. ( Memento from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Route Gottfried von Bouillon e. V.
  3. ↑ a b The Senheim residential tower. Senheim parish, accessed on April 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Chronicle. In: Our community. Senheim parish, accessed on April 4, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 7 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 41.4"  E