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- Butter-churn_tower abstract "A butter-churn tower (German: Butterfassturm) is a two-part defensive tower in which the upper section has a smaller diameter than the lower section. This design provides a ledge or fighting platform about half-way up that acts as a chemin de ronde whilst the narrower tower that rises from this platform acts as a raised observation point. The two sections of the tower are usually cylindrical, but in rarer cases butter-churn towers may have a square plan. Its name derives from its shape which is similar to that of an upright butter churn: a cylindrical container with a shorter, narrower top section.The design appeared in the 14th century, being especially employed for the bergfriede of castles in Europe, but also for wall towers or watch towers on city walls. Its fighting or defensive value was not much greater than ordinary defensive towers, but it offered better observation over a greater distance. The reason for the construction of butter-churn towers may have more symbolic than strategic.In the late Middle Age a striking number of butter-churn towers were erected in the Middle Rhine-South Hesse-Taunus region. Examples include those e.g. in Bad Homburg (the White Tower), Friedberg (the Adolfsturm), Idstein (Witches' Tower, the bergfried of Idstein Castle), Oberwesel (Oxen Tower) And on the Marksburg above Braubach am Rhein, whose square bergfried was given a small butter-churn turret in 1468, which burnt down in a fire in 1705 and was replaced in 1905. One of the tallest towers is the 56-metre-high Round Tower, the symbol of the town of Andernach, which dates to 1453 and has an unusual variation: an octagonal upper turret with a stone gable roof. The highest bergfried of a hill castle with a butter-churn top (1370) was that of Rheinfels Castle above Sankt Goar am Rhein which was 54 metres high at the intermediate platform, but was destroyed in 1797. The third-highest surviving bergfried in Germany is at the Osterburg near Weida in Thuringia; it is 53 metres high and also designed as a butter-churn tower. It is also one of the oldest surviving bergfrieds, dating to 1193. It measures 24 metres to the platform and has an octagonal, stone conical roof dating to the 15th century.".
- Butter-churn_tower thumbnail Friedberg_(Hessen)_Adolfsturm_4735.jpg?width=300.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageID "45028514".
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageLength "3275".
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageOutDegree "37".
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageRevisionID "646725861".
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Andernach.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Bad_Homburg_vor_der_Höhe.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Barbara_Schock-Werner.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Bergfried.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Braubach.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Butter_churn.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Castle.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Castle_architecture.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fortified_towers_by_type.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Chemin_de_ronde.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Conical_roof.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Defensive_wall.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Fighting_platform.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Fortified_tower.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Friedberg,_Hesse.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Horst_Wolfgang_Böhme.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Idstein.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Idstein_Castle.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Marksburg.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Rhine.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Oberwesel.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Osterburg_(Weida).
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Otto_Piper.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Reclam.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Rheinfels_Castle.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Round_Tower,_Andernach.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Sankt_Goar.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Taunus.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Thuringia.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Watchtower.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Weida,_Thuringia.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Weißer_Turm_(Bad_Homburg).
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Weltbild_Publishing_Group.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink Witch_tower.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink File:BurgRheinfels1607.jpg.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLink File:Friedberg_(Hessen)_Adolfsturm_4735.jpg.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLinkText "Butter-churn tower".
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageWikiLinkText "butter-churn tower".
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Commonscat.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Fortifications.
- Butter-churn_tower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Lang-de.
- Butter-churn_tower subject Category:Castle_architecture.
- Butter-churn_tower subject Category:Fortified_towers_by_type.
- Butter-churn_tower hypernym Tower.
- Butter-churn_tower type Building.
- Butter-churn_tower comment "A butter-churn tower (German: Butterfassturm) is a two-part defensive tower in which the upper section has a smaller diameter than the lower section. This design provides a ledge or fighting platform about half-way up that acts as a chemin de ronde whilst the narrower tower that rises from this platform acts as a raised observation point. The two sections of the tower are usually cylindrical, but in rarer cases butter-churn towers may have a square plan.".
- Butter-churn_tower label "Butter-churn tower".
- Butter-churn_tower sameAs Q1018069.
- Butter-churn_tower sameAs Butterfassturm.
- Butter-churn_tower sameAs m.012n8hqb.
- Butter-churn_tower sameAs Q1018069.
- Butter-churn_tower wasDerivedFrom Butter-churn_tower?oldid=646725861.
- Butter-churn_tower depiction Friedberg_(Hessen)_Adolfsturm_4735.jpg.
- Butter-churn_tower isPrimaryTopicOf Butter-churn_tower.