Prison Tower

Year

1256

Type

building

A 13th-century fortified city gate at the western limit of Bern's second expansion, the Käfigturm served successively as gatehouse, prison (hence its name: "cage tower"), granary, and exhibition space over seven centuries of continuous use. …

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