All the watchtowers on the city wall of Villingen-Schwenningen are like this, here’s some more I found while on a short walk:
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Moving rectangles in inkscape without turning on snapping:
css is hard
Well, at least thy were trying, whil other archtiects just use the
rnd()function for placement:Spoiler
Now that actually looks like a pattern put in on purpose.
I wonder if there was a technical reason for the windows in those watchtowers, or like if they were just trying to torment their village’s mentally challenged resident who happened to have an extreme distaste for unorderly things
Looks like a dynasty of master trolls who were also masons.
But I wonder if there’s a better reason
Yeah. Everyone was plastered all the time.
This was done so that if an archer approaching the tower nocks 5 arrows at the same time, he cannot hit guards in all 5 windows at once.
Later, purposefully-designed bows rendered this defense useless.
This is a clock tower. Most likely the internal mechanisms for clock precludes a centerline window. Something bolted to the wall, etc.
That sounds pretty plausible, but I’m not sure.
The windows are only very slightly off center, inconsistent, and even the ones above the clock are as well (although the clock mechanism could extend both up and down).
But I also don’t have any better explanation.
Once upon a time I would have linked r/FrankLloydWrong, but alas no such community exists in the Fediverse yet
Be the change you want to see
Hey, I was just there a month ago. Such a fun name to say.
We need to find their graves and desecrate them
