Der Gärende Turm

Fermentation Tower & Pneumatic Signal Beacon

At the ragged border between Kanalgrund and Stille Vorstadt, Der Gärende Turm rises like a belch made permanent in stone — a crooked, seven-storey cylinder of blackened limestone and corroded iron banding, its mortar weeping rust-coloured streaks down to the cobblestones below. It was built, according to contested civic records, to broadcast pneumatic signals across Flautburg's districts: great bellows mechanisms on each floor compress and release ambient emissions collected from the canal syste...

Located in Flatulence as Logos: The Pneumatic Language of the Disenfranchised.