Stephen's Tower

Stephen's Tower is a tower positioned on Citadel Square in Baia Mare, Romania. Over forty metres high and built in a neo-Gothic fashion, it is a image of the city. Eventually used for strategic observation and detecting fires, Stephen's Tower became to begin with a bell tower for Saint Stephen's church, built in 1347-seventy six because the simplest double-naved church in mediaeval northwest Transylvania. The church 50.6 m lengthy and 19 m huge, with naves 25 m long, though no longer quite completed, turned into committed in 1387, when it was first stated as St. Stephen's.

The bell tower become brought in 1446 on the church's southwest side; it become begun at some point of John Hunyadi's reign in honour of his 1442 victory over the Ottomans close to the Ialomi?a River and completed in 1468 underneath his son Matthias Corvinus. In the mid-sixteenth century the tower and church had been partly destroyed by using powerful lightning. The tower turned into rebuilt in 1559-sixty one; the church surpassed from Roman Catholic to Reformed manipulate in 1588. The tower was rebuilt in 1559-61; the church passed from Roman Catholic to Reformed control in 1588. In 1619 both systems underwent a thorough recovery: the tower received a brand new roof, excessive and sharp-pointed, within the form of a rectangular-primarily based pyramid.