Butchers' Tower

The Butchers' Tower is one of the nine towers located inside the Citadel of Sighisoara, belonging to Mures County in Romania. The Butcher’s Tower turned into built in overdue fifteenth century. Originally, the tower turned into shaped in a 8-sided prism, but in the 16th century it became rebuilt on a hexagonal plan and turned into raised with the unique motive of make bigger the sphere of view over the small bastion built right in front of it. The tower has three floors with 5 loopholes and the get admission to was made, in the beyond, by the fort wall gallery.

Fortunately, the fire from 1676 did no longer affect the tower. The latter collectively with the bastion had a incredible importance inside the defense of the western facet of the Citadel. Documents from 1680 mention that the tower hosted five arquebuses, few cannonballs and quintals of gunpowder. Gunpowder, additionally referred to as black powder to differentiate it from cutting-edge smokeless powder, is the earliest regarded chemical explosive.