Old inlet
The old entrance was one of the Augsburg city gates .
history
The “night gate” at the exact location of today's Augsburg City Theater served as an entrance to the city when all the other gates were already closed. According to tradition, it was built at the request of Emperor Maximilian I , who is said to have used this access during his numerous visits to Augsburg. Thanks to its ingenious mechanism, this small gate system was considered a technical marvel throughout Europe. The automatic was actually a machine inaccessible to the public and operated by guards.
Building history
The night gate was built in 1514, while a carpenter ballier drafted the plan for setting up the gate machine. From 1542 to 1548 the bastion was built next to the inlet building together with the wooden bridge over the enlarged dry moat. In 1704 the Ravelin was razed, after which the outer hill was rebuilt in 1737/38.
In 1860 an open pedestrian walkway was first built over the moat to the new train station west of the old town, before the entrance was closed in 1867 as the entire western outskirts of the old town were softened.
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- Hermann Kießling: towers - gates - bastions . Brigitte Settele Verlag, Augsburg 1987, pp. 56/57