Powder Tower (Pasewalk)
The Powder Tower in Pasewalk is a defense tower of the medieval city wall . It is located at the eastern end of Mühlenstrasse in the northeast part of the city center. It is a multi-storey, round brick tower with a distinctive crenellated crown and an octagonal, unplastered helmet . The tower is provided with numerous asymmetrically offset loopholes. There is a stork's nest on the helmet.
The 27.4 meter high tower has a diameter of eight meters with a clear inner diameter of 4.3 meters and a wall thickness of 1.85 meters. The height of the battlements is 1.8 meters.
The tower served as a magazine for the city's gunpowder. In the north there is a single-storey flat brick building.
Web links
- Powder Tower Pasewalk. In: Kleks-online.de. Retrieved January 30, 2013 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 30 ″ N , 13 ° 59 ′ 35.6 ″ E