Tower of Kamyenyets

The Tower of Kamyenyets, regularly known as by using the misnomer the White Tower is the main landmark of the metropolis of Kamyenyets in Belarus. Erected in 1271 to 1289 through the architect Oleksa as a frontier stronghold at the northern border of the principality of Volhynia, it is the simplest such tower closing to these days within the location. The call Bielaja Vieza alternative transliteration: Belaya Vezha, which actually approach White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, possibly derives from the tower's proximity to the Belavezhskaya Pushcha Forest, however no longer from its colour, which has been brick-red through the a long time, by no means white. The fortress became constructed as an enclosed network.

Like many European castles, it had a extremely good round tower, at the raised mound, enclosed via a moat and the river at the northern facet, and an adjoining enclosure, that was completely destroyed in 1903. This kind of the motte-and-bailey citadel appeared inside the tenth and 11th centuries between the Rhine and Loire rivers and sooner or later unfold to maximum of western Europe and even to the region of the existing Belarus.