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Gänsturm Ulm

Gänsturm Ulm

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Gänsturm Ulm

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Location: Swabia, Bavaria, Germany

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Tobias ⛰️🏃‍♂️

February 9, 2021

The 37.5 m high Gänsturm in Ulm (also Gänstor) is a preserved city gate in the east of the medieval city fortifications not far from the Danube. Its name comes from the fact that geese used to be driven through the gate onto the goose meadows.

The substructure with an ogival gate, built from ashlar stone from the old Hohenstaufen city wall, dates from 1360, the upper floors made of brick and the helmet are dated 1495. There are niches with donkey back ends above the gates; the niche on the outside (southeast side) used to contain a coat of arms and a fresco of the Virgin Mary. There was also a no longer existing defense line with two round towers and a drawbridge. The originally pointed helmet with four corner bay turrets was simplified and rebuilt flatter after the gate was set on fire during the siege of Ulm in the First Coalition War in 1796. In 1944 the goose tower burned down again and was given a hipped roof in 1957. He has been wearing a watch again since 2002.
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Tobias ⛰️🏃‍♂️

February 9, 2021

Not far from the Danube, you are not far from the Gänsturm

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Martin Schreiner

April 26, 2020

The newly restored Gansturm at the northern end of the old town, close to the cultural and congress center, seems beautiful.

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