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Bickentor and Bicken Monastery, Villingen

Bickentor and Bicken Monastery, Villingen

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Bickentor and Bicken Monastery, Villingen

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Location: Freiburg District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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1. Stone Boar – Uhustein loop from Villingen (Schwarzwald)

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2. Wanne Lookout Tower – Münsterbrunnen Villingen loop from Eisstadion

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3. Riet Gate, Villingen – Kaiser Tower, Villingen loop from Brigachtal Kirchdorf

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Juschu ( Jürgen & Vicky)

January 9, 2023

one of the many entrance gates of Villingen

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Jochen

August 27, 2019

Here gate and monastery are built together.

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🦣 𝕸𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖚𝖙 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖐 🏒🥅👨🏼‍🚒🚒

May 29, 2021

The Bickentor in Villingen was built around the year 1260 and is now 18 meters high. The floor plan of the medieval gate is 8 by 11 meters. The St. Ursula monastery chapel is attached. The monastery has been home to an order of the Poor Clares since 1480. In 1782 it became the Ursuline convent with a girls' school. To this day it is a grammar school and a secondary school. The monastery continued until the summer of 2015, when it closed its doors.
The name Bickentor (at the foot of the Bickeberg) goes back to the time before the city was founded when Alemanni were already settling on the other side of the Brigach. One of them named "Bicko" had his farm on the Bickeberg.

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Location: Freiburg District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Bickentor and Bicken Monastery, Villingen

1. Stone Boar – Uhustein loop from Villingen (Schwarzwald)

2. Wanne Lookout Tower – Münsterbrunnen Villingen loop from Eisstadion

3. Riet Gate, Villingen – Kaiser Tower, Villingen loop from Brigachtal Kirchdorf

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