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- Title
Der Huckinger Steinturm -- ein hochmittelalterliches Steinwerk im Duisburger Süden.
- Authors
Herrmann, Volker
- Abstract
The stone tower of Huckingen in the south of Duisburg is the only late medieval secular building present above ground in the Ruhr metropolis. Current archaeological and dendrochronological surveys record that it was built in the middle to second half of the 12th century. The tower is not fortified but designed for representative purposes and is set back from the street at the rear of a plot of land which had been used as a field since the 9th or 10th centuries. The original, probably three-storey, building made of local quarry stone was freestanding for only a short period. It was not long before a house, quite likely half timbered and with a gable, was added on the street side. It afforded access to the flat-roofed tower storeys from the west. The tower was converted for representative purposes between 1200 and 1250. Above the cellar and the ground floor, which was fitted out as a living room, a new upper floor with a groined vault were added and an attic accessible via a stair in the wall. Tufa tiles from the Eifel were used. At some point before 1350 the attic was again fully replaced in brick and fitted out as an additional living room with windows with seating niches, a stove and wall cupboards. No further building work was carried out. The tower differs from other noble seats in the region in its lack of defensive elements such as a ditch or an entrance placed above ground level, Its position, set back from the street, access via the house on the street and the incorporation of vaulting in the upper storey mean that it displays far more similarities with brick buildings which tend to be found in the Hanseatic cities. The building could well have been used originally as a staging point and warehouse half way between the two royal cities and important markets of Kaiserswerth and Duisburg. The furniture and fittings, some fairly elaborate, suggest that the building was commissioned by influential people such as the Counts of Berg.
- Subjects
DUISBURG (Germany); GERMANY; TOWERS; CASTLES; ARCHAEOLOGY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY
- Publication
Burgen und Schlösser, 2010, Vol 51, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0007-6201
- Publication type
Article