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Baumburger Turm

Baumburger Turm

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Baumburger Turm

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Location: Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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October 11, 2023

Baumburg Tower
Anyone who visits Regensburg for the first time notices them immediately and is fascinated by the many towers. When you live in Regensburg, you no longer consciously notice them all - at least not the smaller ones. No city north of the Alps has as many medieval towers as Regensburg. Up to 60 towers are said to have shaped the skyline of Regensburg in the Middle Ages. There are supposed to be 20 left today. The so-called gender towers or patrician towers were status symbols of the upper class, which largely consisted of merchant families. The towers, including the house chapel, were attached to their family home. The 20-50 meter high towers were intended to represent the social status of the family: the higher, the more 'important'. One of these towers is the Baumburgerturm. If you turn from Goliathstrasse to the Watmarkt you go straight to it. It stands there magnificently and red, the second highest tower in Regensburg, with its early Gothic windows. On the 1st floor you can see a beautiful loggia - probably the merchants used to display their goods here in a clearly visible manner. You can really imagine it when you stand in front of it. The seven-story tower was built by the Ingolstetter patrician family around 1270, based on the Italian model. Italian because the Regensburg merchants presided over the German long-distance trade merchants in Venice in the Middle Ages for over 100 years - so they imitated the tower-building competition of their Italian colleagues in Regensburg. Instead of merchant's goods hanging out of the window, hammering and metalworking were later carried out in the Baumburgerturm: from the middle of the 18th century, various families of plumbers were based in the tower. There is now an institution downstairs on the ground floor: the 'Dampfnudel Uli' (Am Watmarkt 4). Uli Deutzer has been making his famous steamed dumplings in the Baumburgerturm for over 40 years. This was once the house chapel of the Baumburger family, who lived in the 28 meter high tower in the 14th century and gave it its name.
Text / Source: Online magazine for Regensburg
regensburgnow.de/baumburgerturm

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Bumble-Bee

December 5, 2018

The family tower is a type of construction that emerged in the early Middle Ages in Italy, Tuscany, and was used by influential urban families for residential and defensive purposes. At the end of the 13th century, the construction method north of the Alps was copied in the trading town of Regensburg, which had become rich through trade with Italy, although the towers there were not used for residential and defensive purposes, but rather had a representative character and served to showcase wealth and influence.
(de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gegenchterturm)

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Bumble-Bee

December 5, 2018

The Baumburger Tower in the street Am Watmarkt 4 in the old town of Regensburg is one of the so-called family towers that were built by wealthy patrician families in the Middle Ages as a status symbol. The Baumburg Tower, which has been preserved unchanged, is considered the most beautiful of the 20 family towers that are still partially preserved in Regensburg and is a tourist attraction.

The 28 m high, seven-storey tower decorated with a crenellation was built at the end of the 13th century by the Ingolstetter family, one of the wealthy Regensburg patrician families. A residential wing was added to the east in the late Gothic style in the 15th century. Only in the 14th century did the Baumburg family come into possession of the Hausburg.

(de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumburger_Turm)

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