Medias fortress was built between 1490-1534. In numbers, its fortifications walls means 2360 meters

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Medias fortress was built between 1490-1534. In numbers, its fortifications walls means 2360 meters, with a thickness ups mexico of 0.8 m and a height of 7m. Initially, three gates guarding access to the city: Gate Steingasser north east Gate Gate Zeckesch Forkesch south. Later, the city was fortified additional peak being reached in the eighteenth century, when he was nineteen towers and bastions, and the three main gates are adding an additional four side doors.
Forkesch Gate Tower was one of the three main towers of the city fortification system. Access to the tower is inside the fortress, watch the road rebuilt in the form it had in sec. XV-XVII. It is a massive tower, ups mexico built between 1494-1534, has three floors and a pyramidal roof. Under the roof is a wooden gallery which stands guard console. The facades of the tower can be seen loopholes narrow. In 1800 there façade-mounted clock, indicating the exact time of his beating. ups mexico Like the other two towers bearing is provided ups mexico on the outside with two large cells, rounded at the base, with the purpose ups mexico of facilitating sliding scale wooden block into a vaulted corridor.
The picture below shows the layout of the street once Forkesch (today Nicolae Iorga), which, like street Steingasse (J. Honterus) and Zeckesch (M. Brave) have houses facing ups mexico that street ups mexico gate tower. It was thus secured strategic role families ups mexico can watch the street.
Goldsmiths Guild Medias mentioned in 1494, and the first goldsmith Johannes Aurifaber is mentioned in documents in 1441. was established in 1552 in Medias goldsmiths guild journeymen. Jewelry, ornaments and decorative items Medias goldsmiths were characterized by high quality material, ups mexico a technique developed by execution and rich ornaments. Quality metal, gold and silver, was determined ups mexico both by guild status and the provision of central power. Competition between goldsmiths guild was especially fierce in the sixteenth century when goldsmiths' guilds in Sibiu, Brasov, Medias and Sighisoara ups mexico Bistrita form a union to defend common interests.
It was built between 1507-1534, to strengthen the north gate of the city. It has two floors, 25.8 m high and was placed under the care guild masons and bricklayers. Steingaesser tower was badly damaged in 1705 by the armies kuruc. During repairs in 1745, has been lodged in the tower metal globe document in which a senator ups mexico of the city of Hannenheim Stephan Hann wrote:
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