Inlet gate (Munich)

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Inlet gate
Inlet gate

The inlet gate , originally also called the Schiffertor , was a city ​​gate of the second city wall of medieval Munich .

location

The inlet gate was in the east of Munich's old town in the Angerviertel at the point where the city wall bent from its course parallel to the slope edge of the old town terrace to the east. That corresponds roughly to the point where the Prälat-Zistl-Straße joins the Rosental today. At the house at Prälat-Zistl-Straße 4 a memorial plaque reminds of the former Schiffertor with the following text: “Opposite 60 feet [about 20 m] stood the Schifferthor, on which a leu was painted, / Because in the year fourteen hundred three / The dukes Ernst and Wilhelm here invaded / and defeated Ludwig von Ingolstadt's Parthei ”.

history

Originally the gate was called Schiffertor (also Zyferstor), which goes back to a Munich family name. It was named the entrance gate because entry into the city was still granted at night in exchange for a fee, while the other gates were locked. Only a narrow bridge led to the entrance gate, which often led to traffic jams, as only one car could pass the bridge and the oncoming traffic had to wait. With the construction of the rampart fortification, the outer inlet gate was built to the side in 1633 . In 1826 the inlet gate was torn down.

description

The inlet gate was just a simple passage through the second city wall. Since it was in a corner of the wall and the area in front of it was well covered by the neighboring Scheibling , the gate did not have flank towers like other Munich city gates, but only a wall courtyard. A weir bay window was installed above the gateway of the front wall of this courtyard .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 6.4 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 29.9"  E