Gates, walls and towers
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Stolting Tower
Stolting Tower recalls that the defence of a medieval city wall depended on named people and their duties.
Stolting Tower on Laboratooriumi Street bears a person’s name. Medieval urban defence was more than stonework and weapons: maintaining towers, keeping watch and preparing for danger required the participation of townspeople. The surviving name lends a human scale to the long wall. Behind a single tower stood a system of obligations on which the town relied in a crisis.
Practical information
Address: Pikk 68
Walk along the wall on Laboratooriumi Street and view the tower together with the adjoining masonry. Keep the narrow street clear.