Bartholomäusturm
Bartholäusturm rises beside western Anger square in Erfurt, where it preserves the outline of a vanished Gothic church. Its reconstructed eight-sided spire, completed in 1992, gives the surviving tower a distinctive profile.
The church first appears in records from 1282 and was rebuilt after a fire in 1291. Construction of the tower took place between 1411 and 1448, while a new organ arrived in 1511. After another fire in 1660, the church walls disappeared, and the nave was demolished by 1715 for new buildings. The tower continued as the Barfüßerkirche’s bell tower until 1942, then suffered artillery damage in April 1945 before repairs finished in 1950.
Sixty bronze bells have filled the tower since their carillon was installed in 1979. The carillon plays automatically three times a day and receives live performances from a carillonneur on special occasions. Today, the tower forms part of Erfurt’s city museum and keeps a tangible fragment of the former church above the historic centre.
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