Visby City Wall

Visby City Wall is a medieval protective wall surrounding the Swedish town of Visby on the island of Gotland. As the most powerful, most vast, and excellent preserved medieval metropolis wall in Scandinavia, the wall paperwork an essential and crucial a part of Visby World Heritage Site.

The oldest a part of the city wall is a defensive tower, nowadays called the Kruttornet the Gunpowder Tower, which become erected on the harbor entrance in the 12th century, making it the oldest surviving non-non secular building inside the Nordic international locations. It changed into not until the 1270s and 1280s, that the building of a proper defense for the city of Visby began, with the erection of the land-dealing with wall. This first wall turned into about 5-to-6-metre tall. On the metropolis-aspect, the wall had a raised platform for archers with regularly spaced openings for firing arrows while among the narrow openings there had been arrowslits. According to dendrochronological examinations, the Österport turned into built no earlier than 1286, observed by way of greater in c. 1289: the Norderport and 1294 the Snackgadsporten. Around the 1290s and early 1300s, approximately 20 huge towers had been added between the gates.