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A dansker (also danzker) is a toilet facility, belonging to a castle, that is housed in a tower over a river or stream. The tower, a type of garderobe tower, is linked to the castle over a bridge, which has a covered or enclosed walkway. The dansker is frequently found on German ordensburgen and is an architectural feature of the 13th and 14th centuries.

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The origin of the word, first used in 1393, is probably the town of Danzig.

A famous example is the dansker at the ordensburg in Kwidzyn (former Marienwerder), which was, however, rebuilt in the 19th century and no longer retains its medieval appearance.

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Literature

  • Horst Wolfgang Böhme, Reinhard Friedrich, Barbara Schock-Werner (ed.): Wörterbuch der Burgen, Schlösser und Festungen. Reclam, Stuttgart, 2004, ISBN 3-15-010547-1, p. 108.
  • Dansker. In: Ernst Seidl (ed.): Lexikon der Bautypen. Reclam, Stuttgart. 2006, ISBN 978-3-15-010572-6, p. 115–116.

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