St. Lievens Monstertoren

The Sint-Lievensmonstertoren, also called the Dikke Toren or Fat Tower is a 62 metre tall, unfinished, loose status church tower in Zierikzee, Netherlands. The accompanying church become destroyed by way of a hearth in 1832. In 1454 paintings started out on a church tower, designed by Andries I Keldermans within the Brabantine Gothic fashion. It become deliberate to be, in step with distinct sources, either 130 metres1 or 204 metres tall the latter might have made it the tallest church tower inside the international by way of a long way.

The paintings changed into persisted by using his spouse and children Antoon I Keldermans and Rombout II Keldermans. Work on the tower halted in 1530, while the town went thru a financial crisis. The tower is now sixty two metres tall, on a base of 24.5 metres with the aid of 24.Five metres. Since 1881, it's far a belongings of the kingdom, and it has been particular a Rijksmonument. The name would not talk over with monsters, however to a minster.