Steingässer Tower, Tower of the paved alley
Turnul Steingasser
Steingässer Tower, Tower of the paved alley
Turnul Steingasser
![Mediaş (Mediasch, Medgyes) - wall tower](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Media%C5%9F_%28Mediasch%2C_Medgyes%29_-_wall_tower.jpg/256px-Media%C5%9F_%28Mediasch%2C_Medgyes%29_-_wall_tower.jpg)
Pudelek (Marcin Szala), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
town fortification
Current function:
town fortification
Settlement:
Address:
Strada Johannes Honterus
Historical Hungarian county:
Nagy-Küküllő
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.1686189217, 24.3500361492
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History
The tower was built between 1507 and 1534, and it was originally protected by a barbican. It was the tower of the gate leading to Dicsőszentmárton. It was in the care of masons and stone carvers. In 1705 it was damaged by the kuruc insurgents during the Hungarian War of Independence led by Rákóczi Ferenc II. It was restored in 1745 in Baroque style.
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