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Daniel Tower (St. George's Church), Nördlingen

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Daniel Tower (St. George's Church), Nördlingen

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    October 21, 2024

    A very slender and tall tower in the center of the circular old town.

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      November 29, 2018

      The Nördlinger Ries is a crater that is said to have formed around 14.6 million years ago as a result of an asteroid impact. The crater has a diameter of about 20 to 24 kilometers, the crater floor is about 150 meters below the surrounding surface of the Swabian-Franconian Jura. However, you can only really see the whole thing from the air. From the church tower you still have a beautiful view of the city and the beautiful, green (heath) landscape of the Nördlinger Ries in the distance.

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        February 17, 2023

        Large district town Nördlingen (St. Georg with church tower "Daniel", 2023-02-17):
        noerdlingen.de/stadt-rathaus-aktuell/stadtplan/1-st-georg
        noerdlingen.de/kultur-und-freizeit/museen/kirchturm-daniel-1/poi.html

        Wikipedia (St. Georg (Nördlingen), 2023-02-17):
        de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Georg_(Nördlingen)
        “… Visible from afar is the 89.9 meter high church tower, which is called Daniel and is considered Nördlingen’s landmark; it dominates the cityscape and the landscape of the Giant Crater. This name goes back to Dan 2:48: “And the king exalted Daniel and made him ruler over all the land.”
        350 steps lead to the viewing gallery above the tower room at a height of 70.30 meters. This allows a panoramic view over the roofs of the old town, the city wall and the surrounding villages up to the edge of the Ries. According to the city of Nördlingen, 99 church towers can be seen from this gallery. There is a late medieval running wheel on the 3rd level of the tower, which is 35.60 meters high. Prisoners once had to move it with their body weight to carry loads up the tower.
        The tower room, located on the 8th level at a height of 66.40 meters, is constantly occupied by a tower guard...”
        Wikipedia (list of architectural monuments in Nördlingen, 2023-02-17):
        de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Baudenkmäler_in_Nördlingen#D-7-79-194-274
        “Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Georg ... Spacious three-aisled nave, elongated, slightly recessed three-aisled choir, dominant west tower, built according to a uniform plan in 1427/1519 ... D-7-79-194-274”

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          Location: Nördlingen, Danube-Ries, Altmühltal, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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