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Preserved in total octangular tower Trutzturen, also named Tructurn, Smolet's manor, Rautar's mansion or
manor of Žale was built at the same time as Kamnik's defencewalls in 1451 (Stopa dates the tower to 16th century).
It was supposed to protect the town in case that Turks would conquer nearby castle Zaprice and intimidate the town
from there. In 1971 it was owned by family Rauter who is still in possession of the tower today.
By the tradition, which in this case has no value, supposedly once o castle of lords of Žale was once located on Žale hill
but no evidence can be found of this and is never mentioned in any of the sources.
From the time when the building was built two ground floor entrances made of sandstone has preserved of which the main entrance
is semicircularly concluded and the other one is bent.
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Stopar, Ivan, Dr.: "Grajske stavbe v osrednji Sloveniji - I. Gorenjska (Območje Kamnika in Kamniške Bistrice)", Viharnik, Ljubljana, 1997, ISBN 961-6057-12-X
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View of Žale hill from Mali grad
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View from castle Zaprice; when digging for railway tunnel they found
another tunnel which was supposedly leading from this castle to the town
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View from road leading to the cemetery around the tower
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Passage is forcibly broken through the rock
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In a shape of a tower built, single storeyed manor with chisled corners of sandstone,
which already France Stele was pointing out. has a form of prolonged, irregular octagon, covered with octagonal conic roof
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View from approach to the tower to Mali grad
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