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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All the watchtowers on the city wall of Villingen-Schwenningen are like this, here's some more I found while on a short walk:
25 Comments
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 120d
css is hard
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 120d
wtf, I didn't say "float right".
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 40 pts · 120d
Looks like a dynasty of master trolls who were also masons.
But I wonder if there’s a better reason
Janx@piefed.social · 18 pts · 120d
Yeah. Everyone was plastered all the time.
HMWYSPlease@lemmy.org · 9 pts · 120d
I feel like there is mortar your comment than meets the eye.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 39 pts · 120d
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.
MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de · 24 pts · 120d
Well, at least thy were trying, whil other archtiects just use the
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4am@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 120d
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
Alberat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d
had to switch contractors mid way through
mossberg590@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 120d
This is a clock tower. Most likely the internal mechanisms for clock precludes a centerline window. Something bolted to the wall, etc.
philpo@feddit.org · 7 pts · 119d
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.
zener_diode@feddit.org · 6 pts · 120d
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.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d
Could be. I struggle to imagine what would need to be bolted to the wall, only in that place, only on that one floor.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 120d
Moving rectangles in inkscape without turning on snapping:
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth · 11 pts · 120d
Once upon a time I would have linked r/FrankLloydWrong, but alas no such community exists in the Fediverse yet
Zidane@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 120d
Be the change you want to see
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 120d
Oh man that would bother me endlessly if I lived there lol
philpo@feddit.org · 2 pts · 119d
You can't live in them directly, but I literally lived within 2min from there for a few years.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 120d
We need to find their graves and desecrate them
ZebulonP@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d
Hey, I was just there a month ago. Such a fun name to say.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 119d
Isn't it the German town with the highest suicide rate?
Gumbyyy@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 120d
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
ZebulonP@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
No, this is a town in Germany.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d
That looks like where Cotton Eyed Joe kept The Subtle Knife.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 119d
I don't see the issue