Jarmers
Square and Tower
Historic venue in the middle of the Copenhagen
Jarmers Square is located on the
last piece of Copenhagen’s former rampart -
where the ruins of Jarmers Tower
from 1526-1529 - can bee seen and
visited. Jarmers Tower is 15 m in
diameter and was built in two storeys with a 1.5
m thick red brick wall - and a conical wooden
roof. Jarmers Tower is the remains of 11 towers
that were joined together as a part of the city’s
Middle Age fortification.
Prince Jaromar
The Tower was placed on the city’s most westerly
point - where an earlier little wooden tower
was standing as a fortress to protect the citizens.
Jarmers Tower was built around 1526-1529 as a part
of the towns bastion and named after
Prince Jaromar of Rügen - Germany
- who at this very spot broke through the walls of
the city rampart and attacked Copenhagen in 1259
- together with his Wendian army. The tough Wends
warriors destroyed the city by burning down
most of the houses - after plundering them and ended
up with demolishing Bishop Absalon's Castle
at “Slotsholmen”.
A Mysterious Name
Why
the citizens ever named the tower after a commander
of the enemy - who raze and destroyed their town is
still a mystery.
