Witch tower or Witches' Tower (German: Hexenturm) is a common name or description in English and other European languages for a tower that was part of a medieval town wall or castle, often used as a prison or dungeon.
The Jülich witch towerThe Witch Tower in Rheinbach
The name is derived from the period of witch trials. Many of these towers were used [citation needed] to incarcerate those suspected or found guilty of witchcraft.
Other witch towers were named later, for example in the 19th century when they were used as prisons or ordinary towers in the city walls.
According to legend, witches were burnt at the stake at the Witches' Tower at the Wildensteiner Burg. With trials from the region of the Upper Danube valley may be seen in the archives.
In Babenhausen, a special beer, the Hexe ("Witch") is brewed which depicts on its label the local witch tower.
In Salzburg there is a witch tower in the city walls dating to the 15th century that was used as a prison and, later, as a store. In 1944 it was destroyed by a bomb and the ruins were torn down. Only a picture on the facade of Wolf Dietrich Straße and Paris Lodron Straße recalls this building.
^Falkenturm und Hexenturm at outdooractive.com. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
^Dorn, Herbert: "Spurensuche in Salzburg" in Verschwundene Bauwerke und vergessene Kunstschätze aus acht Jahrhunderten. SMCA, Salzburg 1997.
^Friedrich Pirckmayer: "Der Hechsenthurm in Salzburg: Ein kleiner Beitrag zur Ortsgeschichte" in Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, Vol. 45, 1905, p. 112.
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