The curved tower #1

by Felicia Tica

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The curved tower #1

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Felicia Tica

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The curved tower is a medieval fortified tower in the town of Solothurn on the banks of the Aare in Switzerland. Although the name might infer a crooked construction , this is not true. Only the roof appears from most sides wrong. The unique roof shape is the result of the irregular pentagon of the tower floor plan .

History
The curved tower is the oldest surviving structure unchanged the city. The motivation for the construction probably dates back to the previous indirect threat to the city by an attack of Armagnacs on Swiss territory hard at the former Solothurn Territory border. Construction is not precisely known, it is approximated called 1454 . Completed in 1462 , the tower was then / 63.
A chronicle of Franz Haffner it can be seen that the curved tower was called by his contemporaries as " Kumuff " , this means about as much as "Hardly on " . Attributed the Neckname was on the slow progress of construction . This seems to be the one part been due to structural difficulties , on the other hand have a high probability also financial constraints played a role : in 1458 the city had almost the entire lower cantonal part (lower court via Olten, the rule Gösgen and the count's rights over acquired eg Däniken , Dulliken and Schönenwerd ) paid, which not much to pay for building materials and craftsmen probably remained.
1947 the council decided to commission an inquiry , leave the crooked tower artillery Club Solothurn as club house and Artillery Museum for 99 years to . After a renovation , the tower was first opened to mark the 75th anniversary of the club to visit in the fall of 1948.

Structure
The floor plan of the tower corresponds to an irregular pentagon with a base of 10.5 meters and the same length. The base faces as a north-eastern front of the old town . The aareseitige Northwest Front is 5.43 meters long , and the southeast front with the input measures 5.16 meters . The 7.32 -meter-long western front joins the 7.08 -meter-long south front at an acute angle. The base of the tower is approximately 80 square meters.
The lowest floor of the tower is a 10 meter deep dungeon. This is square because the western wall top of the floor plan was bricked . All other rooms correspond to the pentagon of the tower. The three different levels of upper floors are connected by simple wooden stairs. The ground floor has a height of 3.8 meters , the first Floor is 3.6 meters high. With 4.6 meters is the second Floor of the highest room of the tower.
The masonry is weakest in each case on the city -side base front , on the ground floor where it measures 1 meter while the other sides are 2 meters thick . With increasing height of the tower and the strength of the walls decreases continuously . The base front still measures about 0.8 meters and the other walls in the first Floor 1.6 meters and the 2nd Floor 1.4 meters . Except for the base front in all walls loopholes to be found .
Owes its name to the tower of the roof structure. The fall line of the pointed helmet refers to the intersection of the longitudinal and transverse axis of the pentagonal floor plan. As a result, four of the five sides of the pyramid-shaped , in the form of steep roof of a scalene triangle. The roof therefore appears to the observer " wrong."

Sources:
Wikipedia,
Krumm tower at the Artillery Club Solothurn
Solothurn newspaper of 31 December 1982

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