Schreierstoren
Also known as Weepers' Tower
1487
Medieval
fortification
The Schreierstoren is a stout medieval tower of 1487, one of the few surviving fragments of the defensive wall that once ringed Amsterdam, standing where the old rampart met the open water of the harbor. Its popular English name, the…
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- S Sepp · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Rademaker, Abraham (1675-1735) · Public domain
- Rijksmuseum · CC0
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