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Citizens’ or Debtors’ Tower on the city wall of Meisenheim

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Citizens’ or Debtors’ Tower on the city wall of Meisenheim

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  • Location: Meisenheim, Bad Kreuznach, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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    August 23, 2019

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    Would he be fuller today than at that time?
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    The citizens' tower from the early 14th century was not only used for defence, but also housed a debtor's prison for defaulting debtors on the second floor.
    But rioters and drunks were once also arrested here.
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    August 19, 2025

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    The early 14th-century civic tower once served, in addition to its defensive function, as a debtors' prison on its second floor when a debtor couldn't pay or provide a reliable guarantor. Drunkards, rioters, adulterers, and parents whose children were truant from school also received a short "tower punishment." Until the end of the 17th century, a circular enclosure preceded the tower.
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    Location: Meisenheim, Bad Kreuznach, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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