A powder tower (), occasionally also powder house ( Pulverhaus), was a building used by the military or by mining companies, frequently a tower, to store gunpowder or, later, explosives. They were common until the 20th century, but were increasingly succeeded by gunpowder magazines and . The explosion of a powder tower could be catastrophic as, for example, in the Delft Explosion of 1654.
List of powder towers
Buildings formerly used as powder towers include the following:
Germany
These are sorted by states of Germany, since there are so many.
Baden-Württemberg
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Pulverturm, Leutkirch im Allgäu
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Pulverturm, Vellberg
Bavaria
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Pulverturm, Bad Reichenhall
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Pulverturm, Burghausen
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Färberturm, Gunzenhausen
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Pulverturm, Lindau
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Pulverturm, Memmingen
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Pulverturm, Munich
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Pulverturm, Ochsenfurt
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Pulverturm, Straubing
Brandenburg
Bremen
Lower Saxony
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Pulverturm, Bad Bentheim
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Knochenturm in Einbeck
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Pulverturm, Hameln
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Pulverturm Lingen, Ems
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Pulverturm, Oldenburg
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The Pulverturm, Demmin, bears the name, but was probably not used for this purpose.
North Rhine-Westphalia
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Langer Turm, Aachen
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Pulvertürmchen in Aachen
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Pulverturm, Meschede
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Buddenturm in Münster
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Pulverturm, Rheinberg
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Pulverturm, Wiedenbrück
Rhineland-Palatinate
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Pulverturm, Andernach
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Pulverturm, Linz am Rhein
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Pulverturm, Mainz
Saxony
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Pulverturm, Johanngeorgenstadt
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Pulverturm in Zwickau
Saxony-Anhalt
Thuringia
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Pulverturm, Greiz
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Pulverturm, Jena
Austria
Czechia
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Despite its name the Powder Tower in Prague was never actually used to store gunpowder
Italy
Latvia
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Powder Tower, Riga ( Pulvertornis)
Namibia
Switzerland
USA
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Powder House (Dedham, Massachusetts)
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