Stephen's Tower

Stephen's Tower is a tower located on Citadel Square in Baia Mare, Romania. Over 40 metres excessive and constructed in a neo-Gothic style, it's far a symbol of the metropolis. Eventually used for strategic remark and detecting fires, Stephen's Tower became first of all a bell tower for Saint Stephen's church, built in 1347-76 because the only double-naved church in mediaeval northwest Transylvania. The church, though no longer quite completed, changed into dedicated in 1387, when it changed into first mentioned as St. Stephen's.

The bell tower changed into added in 1446 at the church's southwest aspect; it turned into began all through John Hunyadi's reign in honour of his 1442 victory over the Ottomans near the Ialomi?a River and finished in 1468 beneath his son Matthias Corvinus. In the mid-16th century the tower and church have been partially destroyed via effective lightning. The tower changed into rebuilt in 1559-sixty one; the church passed from Roman Catholic to Reformed manage in 1588.