Arquebusiers' Tower

The Arquebusiers' Tower (German: Armbrusterturm) stands on Cetății Street, formerly Harteneckgasse, named after mayor Johann Sachs von Harteneck. It is the southernmost of the three towers preserved on this street, together with the Potters' Tower and the Carpenters' Tower, which are linked by the curtain wall. All three belong to Sibiu's third fortified enclosure, dated by the List of Historic Monuments to 1357-1366. The tower is named after the keyhole-shaped loopholes on its first level, through which the defenders fired arquebuses. It was later called the Clothmakers' Tower (Turnul Postăvarilor or Turnul Pânzarilor). It was altered and raised over time. The tower is built of stone up to about one metre and of brick above, and has a prismatic shape. Its upper part projects outwards and rests, like most towers in Sibiu, on corbels, with machicolations left between their arches. The tower was restored in 1967-1972. In 2019-2020 Sibiu City Hall rehabilitated the three towers on Cetății Street and the walls on Corneliu Coposu Boulevard with money from the local budget. The tower is part of the ensemble of the medieval city fortifications, a historic monument with the code SB-II-m-A-12010.03, and can be seen from Cetății Street, south of the Large Square.