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Architects: Ecker Architekten
- Area: 1760 m²
- Year: 2014
Text description provided by the architects. The wall surrounding the city of Babenhausen in southern Hessen, Germany, was begun in the late 13th century. Originally fortified with seven towers and a wide clearing surrounding the village center, two towers and a large section of the wall remain. A knights’ residence, constructed in 1544 incorporates fragments of this wall adjacent to the Breschturm - or ‘Broken Tower’- which still reveals a hole made by a cannonball fired by the attacking Swedish during the Thirty Years’ War.
