Just north of the Alstadt (old town) in Frankfurt, the city is for several
neighborhoods onward a hustling and bustling town. With lots of traffic, automobiles, and
noise. Naturally, nearly all buildings appear post-war even to the novice.
But, sitting in a neighborhood just north of the Alstadt center is a
significant remnant of the city’s wall and fortifications from the 1300s: the Eschenheimer Turm, a tower which was built between
1330 and 1350. The tower was one of the few original features of the 14th Century city wall that was spared demolition in the early 1800s. It was left standing as a monument and then again miraculously survived WWII.
The tower today sits on its own separate island. Lots of traffic pass close to it on all sides. So if you visit, you have to watch carefully for cars to reach it. There are some neat details to see but in any event, the tower actually looks quite nice from a distance across the street.
As with most of the monuments reported about here, you can find great pix of this tower on the Internet. I don't need to repeat those pix here. I just want to point out that I think it really looks great at night:
The Wikipedia entry for this structure is very informative:
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