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School Tower, Schulturm

School Tower, Schulturm
School mediasch
h_laca, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
town fortification
school
Current function:
town fortification
Address:
Piaţa Castelului
Historical Hungarian county:
Nagy-Küküllő
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.165500021, 24.3510789851
Google map:

History

The north-west tower was originally four storeys high. It was incorporated into the school in 1713, and then in 1888 the school was raised and the tower was reduced to equal its height.

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