With its golden roof, the Mutterturm pointed lechabwärts pointed out of a park landscape. Built in the style of a Norman keep from large tufa blocks, this historicist building was built in 1884 by Hubert of Herkomer to honor and commemorate his mother.

Born in Waal in 1849, he moved to England with his parents. He received extensive training as a painter and was at the height of his fame at the time of the construction of the Mother's Tower. The tower was built according to his own, probably influenced by the American Henry Hobson Richardson plans as an eccentric artist's studio and provided with a high quality equipment. Today there are also wedding ceremonies.

The good connection to the old homeland gave the city Landsberg the estate of the artist. The small house next to the tower is decorated as the Herkomer Museum and houses a significant collection of paintings and prints by the very successful painter and graphic artist in England. At the initiative of the visionary and motorist, the world's first touring car rally took place in 1905, the Herkomer competition.

Source: landsberg.de/web.nsf/id/pa_mutterturm.html

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December 28, 2022

Mother Tower (2022-12-28):

herkomer.de/de/der-mutterturm

Herkomer Museum (2022-12-28):

herkomer.de/de/das-museum

Café Herkomer (2022-12-28):

herkomer.de/de/caf

Wikipedia (Mother Tower, 2022-12-28):

de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutterturm

Wikipedia (list of architectural monuments in Landsberg am Lech, 2023-11-25):

de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Baudenkmäler_in_Landsberg_am_Lech#D-1-81-130-353

“Mother Tower ... artist's studio, so-called Mother Tower, asymmetrically arranged tuff ashlar building divided into five floors, based on plans by the painter Hubert v. Herkomer, 1884–88...

Former residential building, now a museum, simple, two-story gable roof building with a three-story hipped roof extension as a corner pavilion, essentially the second quarter of the 19th century...

Connecting corridor between the tower and the house, wooden frame construction with bay window and gable roof, 1909 ... D-1-81-130-353”

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October 31, 2022

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