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Jewish Tower, Lauf an der Pegnitz
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Jewish Tower, Lauf an der Pegnitz
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Jewish Tower, Lauf an der Pegnitz
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Rosi_1
March 6, 2021
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As part of the city wall, the Judenturm was the mightiest corner bastion of the cities in the Pegnitz area. The tower in its current form dates from 1430.
Its name is derived from the fact that parts of the city wall were financed from the taxes of Jewish citizens of Lauf. The battery tower with six loopholes was used primarily for defense purposes. Later it was used alternately as a poor house, police prison and hospital.
Source: lauf.de/index.php?id=74
Its name is derived from the fact that parts of the city wall were financed from the taxes of Jewish citizens of Lauf. The battery tower with six loopholes was used primarily for defense purposes. Later it was used alternately as a poor house, police prison and hospital.
Source: lauf.de/index.php?id=74
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June 3, 2024
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Some Jews lived in Lauf an der Pegnitz as early as the Middle Ages. In 1338, a Torah scribe from Lauf was named as a Jewish citizen in Nuremberg, and …
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