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Nicolai Tower, Bautzen

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Nicolai Tower, Bautzen

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    February 15, 2021

    The Nicolai Tower was the last tower of the city fortifications and was completed in 1522. It towers over the northern city gate and, together with the fortified church of St. Nicolai, protected one of the most important trade routes of the time, the Via Regia.

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      February 16, 2021

      The only city train preserved in its original form. Since 2011, the tower has housed the permanent exhibition "The Via Regia in the Bautzener Land".

      The capstone is supposed to represent the stone-carved head of the town clerk Peter Preischwitz, who probably tried to betray the town to the Huseiten in 1429. Then brought to his just punishment, dragged through the streets to the place of execution, his body was first cut open, his heart ripped out and his face beaten, then his body, cut into four parts, was hung on the four main bastions on the city side.
      His head is said to have been attached to the Nicolaitor for a very long time.

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        July 7, 2020

        Tower in Bautzen.
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          Location: Upper Lusatia, Saxony, Germany

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