Hlaska in Opava

Originally, a wooden watch tower stood in the place of today's Horní náměstí, which served its purpose until the beginning of the 17th century, when it was replaced in 1618 by a brick Renaissance building with a four-sided tower, which carried a three-story mine with an open lantern and three bells. However, even this building has not survived in its entirety to the present day. At the beginning of the twentieth century in the years 1902 to 1903, the building was…