Staircase tower
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Lot
), FranceA staircase tower or stair tower (
helical staircase
.
History
Only a few examples of staircase towers have survived from ancient times (e.g. on the
donjons), churches and castles of the early and high Middle Ages; and this situation only changed with the increasing construction of purpose-built and generally rather undecorated staircase towers of the High and Late Middle Ages (Romanesque and Gothic architecture
styles).
Since the
stairwells
) separate staircase towers became gradually rarer.
Examples
Château de Blois
, France
- France
- Former abbey church of Saint-Menoux
- Loire region
- Château de Chambord, Loire region
- Château de Tanlay, département of Yonne
- Germany
- Meißen
- Wittenberg
- Ostend, Hesse
- Dresden Castle, Dresden
- Bertholdsburg Castle, Schleusingen, Thuringia
- Hartenfels Palace, Torgau
- Franconia
- Anhalt)
- Weitersroda Castle, Hildburghausen, Thuringia
- Wilhelmsburg Castle, Schmalkalden, Thuringia
- Ireland
- Reeves Castle, County Kildare
See also
- Traboule, a special type of staircase tower
References
Further reading
- Hans Koepf, ISBN 978-3-520-19404-6
External links
The dictionary definition of staircase tower at Wiktionary
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