Reißturm
The Reißturm stands in Nördlingen, Bavaria, within the historic fortifications of this Swabian city. This three-storey round tower dates from 1644 to 1645.
It probably replaced an earlier structure whose vaulted predecessor dates to 1408. The tower guarded the space between the Reimlinger and Deininger gates. During the Thirty Years’ War, builders converted the defensive tower into a battery tower with a broad passage. A gabled roof linked that passage with Nördlingen’s city wall.
Its gun platform carries a distinctive welsche Haube, a dome associated with Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Loopholes mark the tower’s military purpose. The name recalls Hans Reiß, a mason and stonemason paid for vaulting the earlier structure in 1408.
Since 1980, the protected monument has been used by VCP Stamm Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nördlingen’s local Christian scouting group. Nördlingen’s medieval wall encircles the old town and remains fully intact and walkable. The wall stretches 2.6 kilometres, with five gates, eleven additional towers, and a bastion.
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