Kanonenhäusle
Kanonenhäusle stands in Stuttgart’s Gänsheide, a small historic building surrounded by the district’s grand villas. Its thirty-square-metre interior now houses a family as a private residence. Built around 1702, the compact structure joined Stuttgart’s landscape after a devastating fire in nearby Esslingen. That blaze destroyed 200 houses and prompted stronger fire protection across Stuttgart.
The building carried two noise cannons, fired to alert the neighbourhood when flames threatened. A 1703 fire ordinance established that warning system. Around 1863, builders added another floor for the chief firewatcher, changing the small building’s shape. Late twentieth-century neglect left it facing demolition. A local preservation association then renovated the interior and made the residence habitable again. Today, city tours pass this former firewatch station, preserving an unusual piece of Stuttgart’s history beside the villas of Gänsheide.
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