Donjon Tower (Wieza Glodowa) description and photos - Poland: Zielona Gora (Topic)

Donjon Tower (Wieza Glodowa) description and photos - Poland: Zielona Gora. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. Title in English - Wieza Glodowa.

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Rectangular Lazennaya (translated from Polish - Sanatorium) tower-donjon is called the Hungry Tower by local residents. Its official name comes from the nearby hospital. But this name did not take root in colloquial speech.

Once a 20-meter tower, but now increased by 15 meters, the tower in the Middle Ages was part of the city gate. It was erected in 1487 and performed several tasks at once: it served as a watchtower, was a defensive structure and a gateway to the city. The third city gate and the tower above it were built to better connect with the suburbs of Zielona Gora. Through them, residents of nearby villages could visit the church of St. Jadwiga.

Initially, the gate was created right in the tower. But its small width (5, 4 m) interfered with the normal passage of people. Some scholars even believe that the tower passage was destroyed. In the third quarter of the 15th century, an independent gate was built next to the tower, which is called New. The passage in the tower is bricked up. Now you can see masonry in this place, which differs in color from the rest of the bricks.

Access to the tower premises was now possible only through the passage in the New Gate. For some time the tower was a restroom for the guards, and then a well-fortified prison for the guilty.

At first, the donjon tower was crowned with a tent-shaped dome, which in 1717 was replaced by a baroque-style roof decorated with a small graceful superstructure ... Since that time, the height of the tower reaches 35 meters.

In 1810, the city of Zielona Gora lost its New Gate. Fortunately, The sanatorium tower has been preserved, although attempts have been made to dismantle it more than once.

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