All the watchtowers on the city wall of Villingen-Schwenningen are like this, here’s some more I found while on a short walk:
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Oh man that would bother me endlessly if I lived there lol
You can’t live in them directly, but I literally lived within 2min from there for a few years.
That looks like where Cotton Eyed Joe kept The Subtle Knife.
I don’t see the issue
css is hard
wtf, I didn’t say “float right”.
Looks like a dynasty of master trolls who were also masons.
But I wonder if there’s a better reason
Yeah. Everyone was plastered all the time.
I feel like there is mortar your comment than meets the eye.
This was done so that if an archer approaching the tower nocks 5 arrows at the same time, he cannot hit guards in all 5 windows at once.
Later, purposefully-designed bows rendered this defense useless.
Moving rectangles in inkscape without turning on snapping:
Well, at least thy were trying, whil other archtiects just use the
rnd()function for placement:Spoiler
Now that actually looks like a pattern put in on purpose.
I wonder if there was a technical reason for the windows in those watchtowers, or like if they were just trying to torment their village’s mentally challenged resident who happened to have an extreme distaste for unorderly things
had to switch contractors mid way through
This is a clock tower. Most likely the internal mechanisms for clock precludes a centerline window. Something bolted to the wall, etc.
These clocks were installed far later than the towers.
The construction for the first one started in 1233.
The one with the part of the wall missing is from 1260, they are all part of the old defence walls of the city of Villingen.
I literally drove through two of them today.
Could be. I struggle to imagine what would need to be bolted to the wall, only in that place, only on that one floor.
That sounds pretty plausible, but I’m not sure.
The windows are only very slightly off center, inconsistent, and even the ones above the clock are as well (although the clock mechanism could extend both up and down).
But I also don’t have any better explanation.
Once upon a time I would have linked r/FrankLloydWrong, but alas no such community exists in the Fediverse yet
Be the change you want to see
We need to find their graves and desecrate them
Hey, I was just there a month ago. Such a fun name to say.
Isn’t it the German town with the highest suicide rate?
Is this in Pennsylvania? It looks really familiar, I stayed at a place very much like it a few years ago, I’m wondering if it’s the same place
No, this is a town in Germany.
