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Blasturm Schwandorf

Blasturm Schwandorf

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Blasturm Schwandorf

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Location: Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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November 4, 2024

Blasturm

According to a document dated December 6, 1459, Schwandorf began to build a city wall. The 1.3-kilometer-long wall encompassed the medieval core of Schwandorf with the castle complex, the market square, the parish church and the hospital. The wall was 1.2 m thick and supposedly the wall was 13 to 16 m high; however, this seems to be greatly exaggerated. The wall had four square towers and eight semicircular towers. At the highest point of the city wall is the Blasturm, which is mentioned in 1555 as the new tower or Neuturm.
A tower keeper lived in the Blasturm, who had to warn the citizens of a fire or the threat of war. One of these tower keeper was the father of Konrad Max Kunz, creator of the Bavarian anthem. The last tower keeper was Karolina Luschner, who held the office after the death of her husband in 1899 until her death on April 9, 1929.
The Blasturm was a motif for Carl Spitzweg, who painted it in 1860. The picture now hangs in the Georg Schäfer Museum, after the town of Schwandorf refused to buy the picture for 27,000 German marks in 1960.

The building has an almost square floor plan with sides measuring 7.50 meters by 7 meters. The wall thickness of the substructure is 1.65 meters, tapers towards the top and reaches a thickness of 0.85 meters under the roof. The height of the individual floors also varies, measuring 20.48 meters without the foundation wall up to the top of the roof. The first floor is reached via a wooden staircase on the outer, inner side of the city wall. The other upper floors are accessed via internal staircases. The tower has a pyramid roof and is equipped with a lantern on a rectangular floor plan. To the south is a remaining section of the city wall about 50 meters long.

Immediately after the Second World War, a local history museum was set up in the empty tower. After the museum moved to new premises in 1963, the tower stood empty again for years. In 2006, a new, small museum opened here, commemorating the profession of the tower keeper and Carl Spitzweg.
The Blasturm is the only completely preserved relic of the Schwandorf city wall.

Source: Excerpts from wikipedia.de

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March 15, 2019

The listed Blasturm was part of the Schwandorf city wall. Until 1963 the tower served as a museum of local history and until today there is a small museum in it that reminds of the occupation of the Türmers and Carl Spitzweg.

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