Metzgerturm Tower

The Metzgeturm Tower is the “Leaning Tower of Pisa” of the city of Ulm, since at an altitude of about 36 meters it deviated from the axis towards the north-west by 2 meters, and the angle of inclination is 3.3 degrees, which almost reaches the deflection of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In fact, it is part of the city fortifications.

The Metzgeturm Tower was built in 1345 on a wetland, which is why it leaned to one side. Despite a fairly reasonable explanation, there is a beautiful legend about Metzgeturm.

People say that when the city was a poor harvest year, and meat rose sharply, cunning butchers began to add wooden sawdust to sausages and sausages, while not changing prices. In response to such tricks, the townspeople gathered and, locking the greedy butchers in the tower of Metzgeturm, went to complain about the disaster and demand severe punishment. Mer was not jokingly angry with the deceivers, and when he entered the upper room of the tower, where they were locked, they were afraid to forget in the far corner, from which the tower leaned.

The Metzgeturm Tower is built in the form of a square brick tower with a narrow and sharp arc of passage, which ends with a steep roof of tiles.