Kamenets tower description and photos - Belarus: Brest region (Topic)

Kamenets tower description and photos - Belarus: Brest region. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Kamenets vezha is a Romanesque monument, donjon of the Volyn type, built in 1271-1288. Donjon is a high impregnable tower, the last line of defense of a feudal castle. Such towers were designed for a long siege, and therefore included living quarters, food depots, and ammunition.

The Kamenets vezha was built on the high bank of the full-flowing Lesnaya River. The design and location of the tower made it practically impregnable. From the tower, a circular shelling from bows was conducted at considerable distances, and the enemies could not approach its walls.

For this area, called Beresteiskaya in the XIII century, wars were constantly waged, as it was surrounded by greedy neighbors from all sides : Russia, Lithuania and Mazovia. Berestye belonged to the Galicia-Volyn princes.

Prince Vladimir Vasilkovich decided to strengthen the borders and built several watchtowers. Only Kamenetskaya has survived to this day. The exact date of the construction of the tower is unknown, but the first mention of the city of Kamenets, which grew up around the tower, is found in the Ipatiev Chronicle: "And love a place over the bank of the Lysna River and cut it off and then cut down the city on it and, more importantly, his name is Kamenets, the land of stone" .

The tower is 29.4 meters high. It is built in five tiers. The outer diameter of the tower is 13.5 meters. The walls are 2.5 meters thick.

In 1960, the Kamenets vezha was declared an architectural monument, restored and a branch of the ethnographic museum was organized inside it. Some of the museum exhibits appeared after archaeological excavations in 1970 under the leadership of M.A. Tkacheva.

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