Defensive walls in Lebork

The city walls still screen center to the north and west in a very jagged shape of the east. Strengthen the city founded in the first half. Fourteenth century the Teutonic Knights. At first, consisted of a single band of brick walls, 1220 m long, reinforced by 32 towers and turrets and łupinowymi moat. In the seventeenth century, the town secured the outer ring of ramparts. Fortifications were not very powerful, because the Swedes broke it twice without much effort. At the end of the nineteenth century, part of the fortifications were dismantled. Today, most fully presents the northern band of the three surviving towers. At the edge lies low, square tower officially occupied by the Supreme Technical Organisation (NOT). And in the back of the parish church tower stands Ivy took its name from her ivy entwined that wymarzł winter 1855, four-sided at the base, above Octagonal. The property represents a well-known two-stage type in Pomerania. August równierz preserved ruin quadrilateral tower.