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Oberwesel town wall

Oberwesel town wall

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Oberwesel town wall

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UNESCO Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal

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Location: Oberwesel, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Sabine 🦁

September 22, 2019

Oberwesel is an educational institution for the medieval interested.

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Hunsbuckel 🇺🇦

December 11, 2019

The medieval city wall and several towers determine the townscape. The wall is partially accessible, but beware, the stairs have it all. Several of the towers are also accessible and allow a view over the city and the Rhine.

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Stephan N

October 25, 2020

Very beautiful, almost completely preserved city wall around Oberwesel.
The city fortifications are one of the best-preserved buildings of this type in the Rhineland with their sixteen towers (from formerly twenty-one) and the wall that is still almost complete. Its construction may have begun soon after 1213 (1220?). Around 1240 the wall around the city center was raised. The fortification was first mentioned in 1257. At that time, King Richard of Cornwall stated in a document that the city was surrounded by a wall.
According to Schwarz, the wall around the southern suburb was built around 1250, shortly after that around the suburb of Niederburg, and around 1350 the wall around Kirchhausen was built. For Dehio, the two suburbs in the north (Niederburg, with the former Cistercian monastery of Allerheiligen) and in the south (Kirchhausen, with the Liebfrauenstift) were only included in the fortification belt around 1400 and in the middle of the 15th century (1444?).
The city wall was damaged during the Wesel War (1390/91). After the end of hostilities, the damage was repaired and the wall was further strengthened.
Source:
regionalgeschichte.net/index.php?id=896

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Location: Oberwesel, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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