Tower of Seven Coats

The Tower of the Seven Cloaks, also known as the Maiden Tower, is a part of the Gothic fortifications of the city, which has been preserved to this day. The building is considered to be the symbol of Szczecin.

The building had been built in the 15th century. It used to have two floors and was topped with a battlement and a conical tented roof. In the 18th century, inside the building there was a prison for convicts. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the upper part of the tower had been demolished, and on the top a tenement house was built, which preserved until 1944. As a result of the bombardment, the building was destroyed. In the mid-1960s, the tower has been rebuilt with a battlement and a cone.

The name of the object is associated with many stories. According to one of the legends, the Pomeranian prince, before the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, demanded from the court tailor seven robes made of expensive material. The craftsman's wife, seeing the cloth, asked her husband to sew a dress for her using this material. The man agreed, but when the prince learned about this event, he ordered the tailor to be locked in the tower. Since then, the poor man locked in the building, for six months sewed robes for the court without any pay.