Stephens Tower

Stephen's Tower is a tower positioned on Citadel Square in Baia Mare, Romania. Over forty metres high and constructed in a neo-Gothic fashion, it's miles a symbol of the city. Eventually used for strategic statement and detecting fires, Stephen's Tower was first of all a bell tower for Saint Stephen's church, built in 1347 to 76 as the handiest double-naved church in mediaeval northwest Transylvania. The church, even though not quite finished, became devoted in 1387, when it was first stated as St. Stephen's.

The bell tower turned into introduced in 1446 on the church's southwest aspect; it become begun during John Hunyadi's reign in honour of his 1442 victory over the Ottomans close to the Ialomita River and completed in 1468 below his son Matthias Corvinus. In the mid-sixteenth century the tower and church had been partially destroyed via powerful lightning. The tower was rebuilt in 1559 to 61 the church passed from Roman Catholic to Reformed control in 1588. In 1619 each systems underwent a radical recuperation: the tower obtained a brand new roof, excessive and sharp-pointed, in the shape of a square-based pyramid.