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Matto

November 21, 2021

The tower is now a piece of the history of the city of Mulhouse as it has been preserved to this day. Mulhouse is sometimes referred to as the “City of the Bulwark”.

Since 2006, the Mulhouse tram line has also run directly past the tower.

The building has also been classified as a monument historique (historical monument) since December 6, 1898.

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Norbert Reichl

October 1, 2022

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Bulwark with city wall

The Bulwark Tower has had several different names throughout its history. First "Neuensteinerturm" around 1390 (from the name of a family that lived near the tower), then "Hugues-Walch-Turm" in the 1400s (same explanation), then "Eselsturm" around 1700 (the miller of the Basler Tors had a donkey house nearby), then finally 'Schweineturm' around 1850. (the slaughterhouse is right next door) before getting its current name around 1900.

Its top was once crenellated, then converted to a flat four-gabled roof around 1700, before acquiring its current roof shape in 1890. The enclosing wall to which the bulwark belonged was demolished in 1840. The fresco (dating from 1893) that adorns the east tower is by Ferdinand Wagner and depicts the mayor Ulrich von Dornach during the attack on Mulhouse by Martin Malterer in 1385. It was restored by Bernard Latuner in the 1970s.

Today the tower represents a piece of the history of the city of Mulhouse as it has been preserved to this day. Mulhouse is sometimes referred to as the "City of the Bulwark".

Since 2006, the Mulhouse tram line has passed the tower.

The building has been classified as a Monument historique (historical monument) since December 6, 1898.

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Bollwerk Tower

1. Place de la Réunion – Temple Saint-Étienne loop from Brunstatt

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