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Black Tower (Brașov)

Romania

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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Black Tower (Romanian: Turnul Negru, Schwarze Turm, Hungarian: Fekete torony) is a fort of Braşov, Romania The tower located on a large rock on Warthe Hill. The purpose of the tower was to deny enemy soldiers access to the city walls, which, in this case, were no further than 5 meters (the pass was only widened in 1819–1820).

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More tall towers in Romania

  1. Basarab Tower114 m
  2. Galați TV Tower110 m
  3. Sighișoara Clock Tower m
  4. Firemen's Tower (Satu Mare) m
  5. Oltenița Water Tower m

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  1. Warsaw radio mast · Konstantynów646.4 m
  2. Tokyo Skytree · Oshiage634 m
  3. KRDK-TV mast · Traill County627.8 m
  4. Diversified Communications Tower · South Carolina609.6 m
  5. KATV tower · Jefferson County609.6 m
  6. KVLY-TV mast · Blanchard605 m
  7. Abraj Al Bait · Mecca601 m
  8. Canton Tower · Chigang Subdistrict600 m