Town walls
Original function:
town fortification
Historical Hungarian county:
Szatmár
GPS coordinates:
47.6617870957, 23.5807095438
History
In 1469, King Matthias of Hungary granted the town permission to build a wall around it to protect it from the raids of the Vlachs of Moldavia. In 1490 it was besieged and taken by the Polish prince John Albert, a pretender to the throne of Hungary. In 1564, it was taken by Báthory István, the commander of the army of King John II of Hungary. In 1567, John II besieged it and, unable to keep it, tried to destroy it. In 1583, Emperor Rudolf donated the town to Báthory István, Prince of Transylvania. In 1601 it was taken by the imperial army of General Basta. In 1672 it had to be demolished by order of the emperor, which was carried out in 1673 under the supervision of General Cobb's soldiers. This was only a moderate destruction, however, because the fortifications were restored in 1690 on news of the approach of Thököly Imre. In 1703, the Vlach outlaw Pintea tried to break into the town with the kurucs, and the locals took up arms and shot him to death near the Butchers' Tower. The town walls were still largely intact at the turn of the 19th century. The town walls were irregular, almost circular, with four gates and towers maintained by guilds (such as the Butchers' Tower, the Red Tower, the Furriers' Tower, the Coopers' Tower, the Potters' Tower).
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