Seilerturm (Ropemaker's Tower), Speckturm (Bacon Tower)

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Original function:

town fortification

Current function:

town fortification

Settlement:

Medgyes, Mediaș

Address:

Piaţa Castelului

Historical Hungarian county:

Nagy-Küküllő

Country:

Romania

GPS coordinates:

46.165376307, 24.351462478

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History

Five-storey tower. When the members of the ropemakers' guild died in the leprosy epidemic, the belt makers asked the town council to let them take over the tower. In the 19th century it was called the Bacon Tower (Speckturm) because the Saxons stored their smoked bacon here. Today, it is the archives of St Margaret's Church, which also houses several very old bibles. Its wall is connected to the Stephan Ludwig Roth Memorial House. Stephan Ludwig Roth was born in 1796 in this former vicarage, built in 1713 on 15th century foundations. During the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-49, Roth sided with the Habsburg oppressors and the Vlach rebels who supported them, and was executed for his treason.

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