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Main - - Culture - Architectural monuments - Brest region Kamenetskaya Pillar ( Kamenetskaya Vezha)
Kamenetskaya Pillar ( Kamenetskaya Vezha) is the monument of defense architecture of the 13th century. It was erected in the town of Kamenets in 1276-1288 by town-planner Alexa by order of Volyn Prince Vladimir Vasilkovich. It was restored in 1903 and in the 1980s . Centric round in the planning monumental building (height –nearly 30 m, diameter -13,5 m, thickness of walls- 2,5 m) is covered with rib vault. There is military gallery with 14 rectangular massive battlement in the walls. Interior space is divided into 5 tiers by wooden daises. Laying is Baltic, made of dark-red and yellow brick with grooves one of the planes. Wall surface is decorated with plastered and whitened plane half-circle arched bays. In the1-4th tiers the wall is cut by narrow chinked loophole, in the 5th one- lancet. From the fifth tier inside the wall to the military gallery come spiral stairs, lit by two narrow windows. Artistic expressiveness is achieved by laconicism of architectural forms; good accommodation in environment, on the hill, which was earlier enclosed with a rampart with wooden walls (didn’t remain). From 1960 there is a branch of the Brest regional museum of local lore. It is a historical and cultural value of republican significance.
© National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011
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