Powder tower

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A powder tower (German: Pulverturm), occasionally also powder house (Pulverhaus), was a building used by the military or by mining companies, frequently a tower, to store gunpowder or, later, explosives. They were common until the 20th century, but were increasingly succeeded by gunpowder magazines and ammunition depots. The explosion of a powder tower could be catastrophic as, for example, in the Delft Explosion of 1654.

Buildings formerly used as powder towers include the following:

These are sorted by states of Germany, since there are so many.

• Pulverturm, Leutkirch im Allgäu
• Pulverturm, Vellberg

• Pulverturm, Bad Reichenhall
• Pulverturm, Burghausen
• Färberturm, Gunzenhausen
• Pulverturm, Lindau
• Pulverturm, Memmingen
• Pulverturm, Munich
• Pulverturm, Ochsenfurt
• Pulverturm, Straubing

• Pulverturm, Templin

• Bremer Pulvertürme [de]

• Pulverturm, Bad Bentheim
• Knochenturm in Einbeck
• Pulverturm, Hameln
• Pulverturm Lingen, Ems
• Pulverturm, Oldenburg

• Pulverturm, Anklam

The Pulverturm, Demmin, bears the name, but was probably not used for this purpose.

• Langer Turm, Aachen
• Pulvertürmchen in Aachen
• Pulverturm, Meschede
• Buddenturm in Münster
• Pulverturm, Rheinberg
• Pulverturm, Wiedenbrück

• Pulverturm, Andernach
• Pulverturm, Linz am Rhein
• Pulverturm, Mainz

• Pulverturm, Johanngeorgenstadt
• Pulverturm in Zwickau

• Pulverturm, Quedlinburg

• Pulverturm, Greiz
• Pulverturm, Jena

• Pulverturm, Krems

• Despite its name the Powder Tower in Prague was never actually used to store gunpowder

• Pulverturm, Schlanders

• Powder Tower, Riga (Pulvertornis)

• Powder Tower, Otjimbingwe, Namibia

• Malteserturm in Chur
• Pulverturm, Merano
• Pulverturm, Zofingen

• Powder House (Dedham, Massachusetts)

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  The Powder Tower in Prague
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  Pulverturm in Oldenburg with remains of the old town wall
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  Pulverturm Wiedenbrück, exterior view
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  Pulverturm in Landsberg am Lech
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  Pulverturm in Lindau
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  Pulverturm in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
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  Pulverturm in Riga
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  Pulverturm in Memmingen
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  Langer Turm in Aachen
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  Pulverturm in Linz am Rhein
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  Pulverturm in Rottenburg/Neckar
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  Pulverturm in Johanngeorgenstadt
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  Pulverturm in Otjimbingwe, Namibia
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  Pulverturm in Zofingen
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  Pulverturm in Zwickau

• Adolf Weinbrenner: Pulvermagazin, in Otto Lueger (ed.): Lexikon der gesamten Technik und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften, Vol. 7 Stuttgart, Leipzig 1909, pp. 274–275; digitalised at zeno.org
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