Powder Tower, Demmin

The Round Tower, usually referred to as the Powder Tower, is the only surviving tower of Demmin's town fortifications. This included 10 towers with a round base and 17 with a rectangular base. It is located in the Turmstraße south of the Luisentor in Demmin. It is not known where the name "Powder Tower" came from; the fact that the tower could have served to store gunpowder is considered unlikely in the literature.

The tower was first mentioned in 1546 as a "gloomy cellar". It was completed in 1570 and 1571. In order to attract the masons for the work, which was not considered honorable, the city council donated a total of seven barrels of beer. Located next to the executioner's residence, the tower also served as a prison. Apparently until the middle of the 18th century, because the pastor and chronicler Wilhelm Karl Stolle described it in his history of the town of Demmin, published in 1772, with the words "is used to imprison wrongdoers, but has now been bricked up a few years ago".

The shape of the tower roof was changed several times. Thus, in 1902 it received a mural crown with merlons, but later it was replaced again by the current tower dome.