Town Fortification Drosendorf

The origins of the fortification date back to the mid-13th century, when a first town wall was erected. At the two town gates, the Horner Tor and the Raabser Tor, this wall was about eight meters high with a thickness of 1.5 meters. Between 1260 and 1300, two habitable towers were built at the Horner Tor. Shortly thereafter, another tower was added west of the Raabser Tor, but it was demolished in the 19th century. In light of the battles for the city in 1405 and the subsequent Hussite Wars, the wall was reinforced and expanded to a height of about ten meters and a thickness of 1.9 meters by the first decades of the 15th century. A round tower even received three-meter-thick walls to withstand artillery fire.