Jindřichův Hradec - Tower of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

The lookout tower of the church (also referred to as the Town Tower) is located on the small square Behind the Church near Náměstí Miru.
It is a 68,3 m high Gothic tower dating from the 15th century, but it was rebuilt after a great fire in 1801. The original tower was one floor higher and housed 7 bells, one of which, called Knaur, was in its time the second largest bell in Bohemia.
The tower was…