Vlkova vež / Wolf Tower - Znojmo (South Moravia)
N 48° 51.214 E 016° 03.080
33U E 577121 N 5411710
Early Gothic Wolf Tower (Vlkova / Vlcí vež) is the best preserved and also the most powerful tower in the system of the medieval Znojmo city fortification...
Waymark Code: WME2P8
Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 03/26/2012
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Early Gothic Wolf Tower (Vlkova / Vlcí vež) is the best preserved and also the most powerful tower in the system of the medieval Znojmo city fortification.
The tower was built as a gate tower guarding the most vulnerable entrance to the city, the Vienna Gate (Videnská brána). Wolf Tower was erected in the mid-13th century in the times of Czech king Premysl Otakar I. This massive simple stone tower is 32 m high and 123 stone steps lead to the observation platform on its top.
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This category is focused only to original Gothic architecture, not to pseudo-Gothic, neo-Gothic or Gothic Revival. You can not find this kind of architecture outside of "Old World", moreover this architecture appeared in ca XIIth century (early Gothic) and the last buildings are from cca XVIth (late Gothic) century...