This is the Hexenturm, the witches’ tower, in our town. Today it’s surrounded by residential buildings. People assume it was a prison for witches, possibly before they were burned at the stake.
The facts: This was never a prison. It was part of the town wall. We do have another tower which actually was used as a prison but there are no records of any witches ever burned or even imprisoned in our town. It is just a name and nobody really knows where it came from.
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I just love the preservation of history. Especially the architecture. Over here, we knock it down and start again.
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We are still clutching onto that “New World” farce with both claws! Sad period in history to be an American I fear.
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It doesn’t always work. We have 3 towers left over from the middle ages. But there was a forth one, erected as a gate in 1608 and torn down in 1882 – because traffic was increasing (still horse drawn, of course) and it was considered too narrow, The other three towers were never used as gates.
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Presumably you can’t see inside….
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It’s not open to the public (too dangerous) but if there were any skeletons (literally and figuratively) they have been removed a long time ago. There are – so I’m told – no cells or anything of the kind inside. Since the records about the actual prison tower are pretty well preserverd I think they would have mentioned a witch or two.
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of course , Germanic thoroughness
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Do you know what is inside?
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Stairs. As far as I’m told.
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Now that is a revelation 😂
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