The very first written records of me named me as the Holleman Tower, but thereafter as the Helleman Tower. There was a unique base room, without an entrance, beneath my three floors \u2013 probably built to deter humidity. The poor surface and weak foundation caused me \u2013 and the wall beside me \u2013 to sag by a metre, over time. In the 1960s I received supports \u2013 even now you can see the large concrete supporting pillars near M\u00fc\u00fcrivahe Street, where women sell their mittens and sweaters. The pillars are somewhat ugly, but I am used to them, as they do their job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 1980s, I was connected to the Filmmakers Association Building on the other side of the wall, on Uus Street. At the same time, Polish builders built a defensive passage from here towards the Viru gate. It was extended in the opposite direction a dozen years ago, so it is now possible to go from here directly to the Tower Behind the Monks. A new spiral staircase was installed inside me, so it is now easier to move up and down as well as shuttle along the 200-metres long defensive passage, towards Viru \u2013 and back again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am the younger of the neighbouring towers \u2013 the Tower Behind the Monks and the one time grand Viru Gate complex, of which only a couple of foregate towers remain, these are at least a half a century older. The very first written records of me named me as the Holleman Tower, but thereafter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valgusobjekt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}