Powder tower
A powder tower (German: Pulverturm), occasionally also powder house (Pulverhaus), was a building used by the military or by mining companies, frequently a tower, to store gunpowder or, later, explosives. They were common until the 20th century, but were increasingly succeeded by gunpowder magazines and ammunition depots. The explosion of a powder tower could be catastrophic as, for example, in the Delft Explosion of 1654.
The powder tower of Prague
The powder tower in Meschede
Buildings formerly used as powder towers include the following:
- Powder House (Dedham, Massachusetts)
- Langer Turm, Aachen
- Pulvertürmchen in Aachen
- Pulverturm, Andernach
- Pulverturm, Anklam
- Pulverturm, Bad Bentheim
- Pulverturm, Bad Reichenhall
- Bremer Pulvertürme
- Pulverturm, Burghausen
- Malteserturm in Chur
- Knochenturm in Einbeck
- Pulverturm, Greiz
- Färberturm, Gunzenhausen
- Pulverturm, Hameln
- Pulverturm, Johanngeorgenstadt
- Pulverturm, Jena
- Pulverturm, Krems
- Pulverturm, Leutkirch im Allgäu
- Pulverturm, Lindau
- Pulverturm Lingen, Ems
- Pulverturm, Linz am Rhein
- Pulverturm, Mainz
- Pulverturm, Memmingen
- Pulverturm, Merano
- Pulverturm, Meschede
- Pulverturm, Munich
- Buddenturm in Münster
- Pulverturm, Ochsenfurt
- Pulverturm, Oldenburg
- Powder Tower, Otjimbingwe, Namibia
- Powder Tower, Prague (Prašná brána)
- Pulverturm, Quedlinburg
- Pulverturm, Rheinberg
- Powder Tower, Riga (Pulvertornis)
- Pulverturm, Schlanders
- Pulverturm, Straubing
- Pulverturm, Templin
- Pulverturm, Vellberg
- Pulverturm, Wiedenbrück
- Pulverturm, Zofingen
- Pulverturm in Zwickau
The Pulverturm, Demmin, bears the name, but was probably not used for this purpose.
Gallery
The Powder Tower in Prague
Pulverturm in Oldenburg with remains of the old town wall
Pulverturm Wiedenbrück, exterior view
Pulverturm in Landsberg am Lech
Pulverturm in Lindau
Pulverturm in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate.JPG.webp)
Pulverturm in Riga
Pulverturm in Memmingen
Langer Turm in Aachen
Pulverturm in Linz am Rhein
Pulverturm in Rottenburg/Neckar
Pulverturm in Johanngeorgenstadt
Pulverturm in Otjimbingwe, Namibia
Pulverturm in Zofingen.jpg.webp)
Pulverturm in Zwickau
Literature
- Adolf Weinbrenner: Pulvermagazin, in Otto Lueger (ed.): Lexikon der gesamten Technik und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften, Vol. 7 Stuttgart, Leipzig 1909, pp. 274–275; digitalised at zeno.org
- Brewer, Ted (1999). Czech and Slovak Republics Guide. Londres: Open Road Publishing.
- Legal, Claus; Legal, Gert (2020). Friedrich II. von Preußen und Quintus Icilius: Der König und der Obrist. Munique: utzverlag GmbH.
- Prokopovych, Markian (2009). Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914. Lafaiete Oeste, Indiana: Imprensa da Universidade de Purdue.
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