Miscellaneous
Technical data
Height: 65 m
Height of tower gallery: 44 m
Number of steps: 186
Architectonic surprises
From the 17th century, the new tower served as a storehouse for gunpowder and it has been called the Powder Tower since that time. The Powder Tower gate was erected on the bottom of a defensive moat that was nine metres below today’s street level and a bridge originally led up to the gateway.. Some mildly erotic scenes are depicted on the wall of the tower adjacent to the Municipal House. In the same wall, there is a special recess or alcove between floors, which served as a medieval toilet.
Guide

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3D model of Powder tower
You can see this 3D image in Google 3D objects gallery.
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