Curchfortress Alma vii

Alma was a free village on Crown Land. In the 14th century, in the east of the village, a small hall church was built on a hilltop overlooking the village. The choir has a flat polygonal termination. The walls of the choir and of the hall are buttress-supported. During the fortification process in the early 16th century, the choir was surmounted by a defence storey with machicolation and loopholes. The curtain wall has an irregularly polygonal ground plan; two five-storey towers stand in the south and in the east. The southern one has bay-like projections with loopholes on all the four corners under the truss-frame-supported defence storey. The massive gate tower in the east displays horizontal gun-loops with pintled shutters and grooves for a portcullis. The smaller north and west towers have pyramidal roofs. In the enclosing wall, loopholes alternate with machicolation.