Tourist Attractions in Tangermunde

Tangermünde's medieval fortifications are almost completely preserved - its town walls, mostly of brick (c. 1300), with wiekhäuser (houses built into the walls) and four towers, including the imposing Schrotturm at the northwest corner of the old town and two square towers on the Elbe front.

There are many fine half-timbered houses (built after a fire in the 17th C.) in Tangermünde, some of them with very handsome doorways. The largest and most richly decorated are on the town's two main streets, Kirchstrasse and the Lange Strasse.

The parish church of St Stephen (Stephanskirche; Late Gothic, brick-built; c. 1376 and early 16th C.) in Tangermünde incorporates remains of an earlier Romanesque church. The most notable features of the interior are the pulpit (1619), the bronze font (by H. Mente, 1508), the organ (by H. Scherer the Elder, 1624) and a number of monuments of the 15th-19th centuries.

Of the old town gates in Tangermünde there survive the Late Gothic Hühnerdorfer Torturm (15th C.), the Wassertor (Water Gate; 1470) and the Neustädter Tor (c. 1450).

The Tangermünde Town Hall (Rathaus; c. 1430), which contains the Heimatmuseum, is a magnificent example of brick-built Gothic architecture, its gable richly decorated with filigree work.

Outside the southwest end of the Old Town of Tangermünde are the remains of a Dominican monastery (Dominikanerkloster) founded in 1438: ruined church, east wing of the conventual buildings (barn), scanty remains of south wing, north gable, etc.

St Elizabeth's Chapel (Elisabethkapelle) in Tangermünde originally belonged to a hospital founded in the 13th C. After being used for many years as a salt store, it was restored in 1891 and thereafter returned to the Roman Catholic church.

The parish church of St Nicholas (Nikolaikirche; 12th C.) in Tangermünde, a fine Late Romanesque building of undressed stone, has a Late Gothic brick tower of about 1470.