Turm der alten Stadtmauer

This guide to the old city wall's gate tower in Frankfurt starts with a fifty-one-year gap between a 1349 cornerstone and the tower that actually rose here in 1400, built by a carpenter named Klaus Mengoz and finished decades later by Madern Gerthener, the master builder also raising Frankfurt's cathedral. It lingers on the tower's two-and-a-half-meter walls and forty-seven-meter spire, and on local legend about a poacher named Hans Winkelsee who supposedly earned his life back with nine shots at the weathervane. Around 1806, an order came down to tear the whole old wall down, this tower included.