Entrance to the town

Entrance to the town
Access to the town was formerly possible only through two gates (or two gate systems). The Košer also called Lesser Gate was rebuilt to its present appearance in 1579. Its foreground had a drawbridge and a defense bastion which is remembered by the name of the street and which also appeared in the name of the mill that used to be there. The Upper also called Greater Gate was formed by two towers passable from both the Aires of the ditch. The external one has been preserved up to today and its reconstructed design is from 1629 while the inner one was pulled down in 1883. The bridge connecting the two towers across the ditch situated below them had originally been constructed as a wooden bridge or even a drawbridge and it was replaced with the stone bridge at the end of the 17th century. A small water gate creating the access to the Ulický Pond you will find at the middle of Hradební Street the hostel of St. Angels in Kypta Square.
The oldest architectural monument in the town is 158 feet tall tower bulit in the late Romanesque style in the 13th century. To this tower belonged also a small gallery church reconstructed at the end of the 15th century in the Gothic style. The Tower had been burnt out several times neverthelss its stone construction persisted only its helmet roof used to change. As late as after the fire in 1836 the general conditions of the building were damaged which led to some emergency modifications aminy others to the walling up of the Romanesque three-part windows. They were only uncovered again during the general reconstruction of the toner in 1991 – 1994.