Kiek In De Kök

Kiek in de Kök (

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: ''Peep into the Kitchen'') is an old

Low German : : : : : (70,000) (30,000) (8,000) , familycolor = Indo-European , fam2 = Germanic , fam3 = West Germanic , fam4 = North Sea Germanic , ancestor = Old Saxon , ancestor2 = Middle L ...

nickname for towers, mainly those that formed parts of town fortifications. They gained the name from the ability of tower occupants to see into kitchens of nearby houses. Due to the history of the

Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German to ...

and the

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, towers far outside modern

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

also bear this name, such as those in

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

and

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

. The Kiek in de Köks include: *

Kiek in de Kök, Tallinn Kiek in de Kök (Low German: ''Peep into the Kitchen'') is an artillery tower in Tallinn, Estonia, built in 1475. It gained the name '' Kiek in de Kök'' from the ability of tower occupants to see into kitchens of nearby houses. The tower is 38 m ...

* Kiek in de Kök, Gdańsk * Kiek in de Köken, Magdeburg File:Kiek in de Kök, Tallin, Estonia, 2012-08-05, DD 02.JPG, In

, Estonia File:Baszta Jacek, Gdansk 2004 ubt.jpeg, In

, Poland File:Kiek in de Köken Südansicht.JPG, In

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

, Germany {{Europe-castle-stub Towers