Martinitoren

The Martinitoren is the highest church steeple inside the metropolis of Groningen, Netherlands and the bell tower of the Martinikerk. The tower is placed on the north eastern nook of the Grote Markt Main Market Square. It contains a brick spiral staircase consisting of 260 steps, and the carillon within the tower carries 62 bells. Twice earlier than a tower has stood at the site of the cutting edge Martinitoren. The first changed into constructed inside the 13th century; this was about 30 metres high and constructed in the Romanesque style.

This tower changed into destroyed through lightning. In the fifteenth century a 2d tower become constructed, about 45 metres excessive, however it additionally became devastated by lightning in a hurricane. The third and modern-day tower became largely constructed between 1469 and 1482 from blocks of Bentheimer sandstone. The steeple was no longer completed until the mid 16th century. This tower turned into first of all an estimated 102 metres excessive. Its architecture became encouraged through the Dom Tower of Utrecht.