Surroundings

The room rental is named after Kvarntornet, the tower in the wall by the house.

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It is the yellow house seen behind the tower

(The Mill Tower's) Kvarntornet's name is known since the early 1600's. The Danish historian James Langebek mentions in his diary from 1753-1754 he visited in Visby, Kvarntornet and saw "three stories, all were filled with hand mills in which citizens maids Ground malt and grain." Medieval towers with similar usage existed in several German cities, including in Rothenburg and Dinkelsbühl. In the 1800s, snuff was ground in a modest factory that had been set up in the Left Tower. The tower was half-round shape. In Visby the tower type alien. It is however common in the Baltic States.

The Kvarntornet was built in the old wall, before the wall was raised. In addition to the tower in Söderport has no tower so vell-worked stone and so smooth shift assets Kvarntornet. Still inside the tower one can see two entrances from the oldest wall shooting path. The tower was originally five stories with an upper castellations. On the inside it was completely open down to ground level. Only later they have built a wall with a door and two doors on the inside. The top floor has a wooden partition into the town. Over the crest tower were added a tiled pitched roof in the 1700s. On the tower's exterior can be in the facade to see two boulders that have been shattered by cannon balls. The evidence of past battles.

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby_City_Wall

Some pictures from the surroundings and Visby.