Berger Warte

The Berger Warte is a guard tower first built in the 16th century on top of the hill with the same name "Berger Warte" (a part of the chain "Berger Rücken"). The tower is around twelve meters tall and built from red Main sandstone. It is located at the highest point of elevation (212m) of what today are the city limits of Frankfurt am Main, at the border of the two districts Seckbach and Bergen-Enkheim. As opposed to the other four remaining medieval guard towers in the city of Frankfurt, the Berger Warte was not part of the system of the Frankfurter Landwehr. The Frankfurter Landwehr was a system of defenses that were built at a distance of around two kilometers around the city of Frankfurt in the late 14th century, as a first line of defense for the city. Rather, the Berger Warte served as an observation post between the city of Frankfurt and Bischofsheim. Armed escorts provided to traders by the city of Frankfurt would stop at the Berger Warte. At the time it was located on land belonging to the nobles of Hanau. Today the Berger Warte is protected under Hessian monument protection law.