Tower, Truncated Tower, Former Town Prison
Tower, Truncated Tower, Former Town Prison
Original function:
town fortification
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7708278335, 23.5894250968
In the courtyard of the house.
History
The Tower is a monumental building on the north side of Kolozsvár's Main Square (No 25), the former dungeon of the town.
In the backyard of the building is one of the oldest remains of the town, the southeast corner tower of the 13th-century fortifications of the Old Castle, known to the townspeople simply as the Tower. It was once the town's prison, as indicated by the plaque above the entrance from 1821 commemorating Kassai Mihály, the prison governor.
In the early 19th century, its condition deteriorated considerably, and the escapes became more and more frequent. On 13 October 1820, the building partially burnt down, but was rebuilt in the autumn of the following year under the leadership of Alföldi Antal. The medieval-style dungeon offered inhuman conditions, and was in use until the mid-19th century. In the 1900s, Steinfeld Ernő opened the Gambrinus restaurant and beer hall in the courtyard of the house. In the second half of the 20th century, it was the site of a restaurant with the same name. The two-storey building has been completely remodelled over the past decades, with modernised cladding raised up to the bottom of the upstairs window frames. The straight hood moulds broken in the centre suggest an early neoclassical style based on the simplicity of the window frames.
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