(c) Wolfgang Staudt from SCN Germany, Wikimedia Foundation - Hollow Tooth Montée de Clausen |
The Hollow Tooth (tower) is the only remain of one of the fortress gates of the old castle on the Bock rock. During the demolition works in 1871, the tower was only half destroyed. So the authorities decided to 'mend' what was left and transformed it to look like the ruins of a medieval castle.