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49°23'45.964"N 15°35'28.481"EThe walls surrounding the growing town of Jihlava were built shortly after its official foundation, i.e., during the first half of the 13th century.
Thanks to its strategic location on the boundary between Bohemia and Moravia, the newly founded royal mining town was not only to become an important commercial centre, but also a point of prime military interest. Measuring 6 meters in height and 3 km in length, the inner walls were doubled by an enclosure wall, with a narrow bailey in-between, and a 7-meter deep moat. For extra strength and security, the main wall was provided with watchtowers and the enclosure wall with bastions. The bastions doubled as fortification of the mounds over the moat. Five gates with elaborate forefronts and drawbridges interrupted the continuity of the walls.
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