exploreCARPATHIA
Attractions along the Carpathians
Transylvania / Romania

Carpenters' Tower, Wheat Bastion

Carpenters' Tower, Wheat Bastion
Fragments of Cluj City Walls from Potaissa Street 2012-010
Codrin.B, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
town fortification
Current function:
town fortification
Address:
Strada Potaissa
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.7666153088, 23.5893045682
Google map:
In the courtyard of the house in Avram Iancu 9.

History

The tower dates back to the 15th century and was maintained by a carpenters' guild.

{"item":"sight","set":{"sightId":1415,"townId":61,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Strada Potaissa","mapdata":"1|1984|1597","gps_lat":"46.7666153088","gps_long":"23.5893045682","religion":0,"oldtype":"24","newtype":"24","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Keso-kozepkori-varoserodites-maradvanyai-Kolozsvar-1086","csemadoklink":"https:\/\/lexikon.adatbank.transindex.ro\/muemlek.php?id=247","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Codrin.B, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/ro\/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Fragments_of_Cluj_City_Walls_from_Potaissa_Street_2012-010.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Fragments of Cluj City Walls from Potaissa Street 2012-010\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/44\/Fragments_of_Cluj_City_Walls_from_Potaissa_Street_2012-010.JPG\/512px-Fragments_of_Cluj_City_Walls_from_Potaissa_Street_2012-010.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Fragments_of_Cluj_City_Walls_from_Potaissa_Street_2012-010.JPG\u0022\u003ECodrin.B\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/ro\/deed.en\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA 3.0 RO\u003C\/a\u003E, via Wikimedia Commons","name":"Carpenters' Tower, Wheat Bastion","note":"In the courtyard of the house in Avram Iancu 9.","history":"The tower dates back to the 15th century and was maintained by a carpenters' guild.","town":{"townId":61,"name_HU":"Kolozsv\u00e1r","name_LO":"Cluj-Napoca","seolink":"kolozsvar-cluj-napoca","oldcounty":32,"country":4}},"language":"en","region":"romania","regionid":4,"offer":[],"gallery":false,"album":false}