Weißer Turm
The Weißer Turm stands in Dinkelsbühl, a Bavarian town whose old town still sits inside its medieval city wall. It runs nearly unbroken around the centre and includes four gates and fourteen towers. The one in front of you is square in plan and carries a pyramid roof, a striking piece of medieval military architecture.
Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa founds the town as a market settlement around 1180. In 1274 it becomes a free imperial city, answerable directly to the Holy Roman Emperor. A status like that demands strong defences, and the towers along the wall provide them. The Hagelturm and the Hertlesturm share that ring.
King Ludwig I of Bavaria forbids the demolition of these fortifications, and the wall owes its survival to that ban. Because the ring stays whole, Dinkelsbühl keeps the shape the defenders gave it. The tower holds its post at the wall, a sentinel where a free imperial city once needed one.
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