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Landskrone torn (0) Symbol designating a Point of Interest.

Lit. crown of the land/country/state/duchy/etc., the original MLG lant had a rather loose semantic footprint and there’s little to evidence to pin the tower’s name to a specific origin. Teutonic knights came from across ‘Germany’ and various towns or castles were called Landskron(e). Tower built on the Väike Linnus (small fortress, early 14th C, later to become the Toompea citadel, mid 14th C) along the lines of Pikk Hermann. See also Loewenschede torn.