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Zons City Wall

North Rhine-Westphalia

Düsseldorf District

Rhein-Kreis Neuss

Dormagen

Zons City Wall

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Zons City Wall

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Location: Dormagen, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Towpath at Zonser Grind – Zons Old Town loop from Urdenbach

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2. Zons Old Town – Zons Old Town loop from Zons

12.2km

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3. Zons Old Town – Stadtmauer von Zons loop from Rheinfeld

8.36km

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Antje

June 11, 2019

Anyone visiting Zons should walk around the outside of the city wall and then go back into the city through the Rhine Gate to see the city wall from the inside. Small alleys, Hospitalplatz, Krötschenturm, Wendelstrasse, to the mill... This is where Zons is at its original.

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DANΨ

May 25, 2022

It must be somehow exciting to live there, in a small but nice settlement that is still surrounded by the original city wall.

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Monika

June 8, 2023

And you absolutely have to cross the dike to the Rhine beach!

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Sandra 🌻

June 10, 2019

Beautiful section on the city wall

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Niko's Wanderlust

August 31, 2019

City of Zons is very well equipped for tourism you get everything you need

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Nieres

July 29, 2023

The city walls of the Zons fortress were built from 1372 to 1388 due to increasing conflicts between the citizens of Neuss and the Archbishop of Cologne as well as the relocation of the Rhine customs from Neuss to Zons. The city walls surround the entire old town largely undamaged in a square, the sides of which are aligned in approximately all four cardinal directions. The largest area of the wall is free-standing; in smaller areas the walls are integrated into the outer walls of houses. The base of the wall consists of trachyte and tuff, reinforced with basalt and, in the upper layers, field firestone.
The Zons city wall is currently probably the most valuable wall on the Lower Rhine in terms of nature conservation. Extensive renovation work often involved removing plant growth and repointing the wall. Nevertheless, the flora and fauna typical of old walls can still be observed in certain areas. The high number of species found and the great length of the wall make Zons unique. Monument protection now also takes nature conservation concerns into account.

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August 12, 2024

Well-preserved city fortifications in Zons

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Stephan N

September 17, 2024

The city fortifications of the former Electorate of Cologne customs fortress of Zons, planned by Archbishop Friedrich von Saarwerden between 1373 and 1408, are almost completely preserved with the surrounding city wall, the corner towers and guardhouses as well as the ditches, ramparts and the forecourt. The city wall with the watchtowers was built as a regular rectangular structure made of columnar basalt, trachyte, tuff and brick.
The four corner towers include the six-storey, almost 26m high Rhine Tower, completed in 1388, with the remains of the gate system of the former Rhine Gate, which was also used as a customs tower for collecting the Rhine toll. The round Krötschen Tower and the Mill Tower form the western corner towers of the city fortifications, the former Field Gate in between, the second main gate of the city fortifications, was demolished between 1833 and 1842. The mill tower shows the still completely preserved mill technology with the grinding mechanism of the former mill. In front of the south wall is the moat wall with the south-east corner round tower, the "icebreaker".
The state castle, built by Archbishop Friedrich von Saarwerden from 1373 onwards when the entire city complex was built, served to secure customs revenues for over four centuries. Columnar basalt, trachyte, tuff and brick were used for the almost square complex with the city wall in the south and east and the moat in front in the north and west. The most striking and also oldest building in the stronghold is the mighty gate tower, which was the only access to the inner courtyard in the Middle Ages. The double gate system of the south gate was the only gate leading directly into the outer bailey, which was bordered by high walls on the sides facing the city. The Juddeturm, equipped with loopholes and machicolations, in the basement of which is the windowless castle dungeon, is the northwestern fortification tower of the outer bailey.
Source: swd-dormagen.de/fileadmin/civserv/pdf-modelle/fachbereich_6/Denkmalschutz-Rundgang/Internetversion_opti.pdf

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Isi-Sicilia

July 30, 2025

It is a defiant defensive structure and also a habitat for many rare animal and plant species. The ravages of time had eroded the more than six-meter-high city fortifications, so that the parapet above the former battlement, in particular, was no longer stable. To reconcile monument protection and nature conservation, compromises were necessary during the repair. For ecological reasons, the parapet could not be replaced in three places despite their lack of strength. Steel safety nets and the injection of binding agents now provide the necessary safety.

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Location: Dormagen, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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