The estimated 24 meters high tower was attached to a corner of the square shaped knight castle. A clock was showing the current time on top of it, and that is from where the city guard was peering at the surrounding landscape also. Gunpowder was kept inside. Nicolaus Istvánffy mentioned the building as 'a round shaped tower in the middle of the castle built from bricks' at the end of the 16th century. The tower was attached to the knight castle at a later time according to Valéria Kováts: '...The wall base of the buttressed castle was made of flat, slim and elongated bricks, ...the bricks used to build the tower show a different type, they are smaller, broader, thicker.'
Sziget Castle 1566
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The famous Siege of Sziget and the valorous sally of Miklós Zrínyi took place 450 years ago, for this reason we created a reconstruction of 16th century Szigetvár. Although there is little archaeological evidence available, under the supervision of Gergely Buzás and József Kelenik we reviewed every tangible and written data and with the help of modern technology we produced a theoretical reconstruction of the tripartite fortification of Sziget Castle from the year 1566.The famous Siege of Sziget and the valorous sally of Miklós Zrínyi took place 450 years ago, for this reason we created a reconstruction of 16th century Szigetvár. Although there is little archaeological evidence available, under the supervision of Gergely Buzás and József Kelenik we reviewed every tangible and written data and with the help of modern technology we produced a theoretical reconstruction of the tripartite fortification of Sziget Castle from the year 1566.