Schlossturm Düsseldorf
Lone surviving tower of a burned ducal palace, crowned by a copper fire-blower and a river museum.
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This guide to the Schlossturm in Düsseldorf, the lone surviving tower of the city's old palace, follows the men whose daily job was putting out fires in the eighteen-seventies, and one March night in eighteen seventy-two when flames appeared in the wing facing the Rhine. It also looks at the copper figure on the roof, who designed it and who made it, and at what lies under your feet on the square. Stand on Burgplatz with a clear view of the tower's top.
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