Railroad gate

Railway gates were mainly built in the 19th century to enable the railway to enter fortresses or cities fortified with city ​​walls and still maintain the protective function of the walls. In the course of industrialization and the accompanying expansion of the cities, most of the city walls were razed and the railway gates were torn down. Today there are still railway gates in the area of ​​factory railways, factory areas and military facilities. The Vatican State Railways holds her 1929-1933 built rail gateway in the city wall of the Vatican State in operation.

Historically important railway gates were for example:

• the Lübeck railway gate , built in 1850
• the Basel Railway Gate , built in 1845
• the railway gate in Berlin at today's Warschauer Brücke
• several gates in the fortress Magdeburg , for example the old Leipzig gate and the gate at the Lukasklause

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  Vatican City railroad gate: view from outside to inside; right: Vatican City train station

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  Vatican City railroad gate: view from the inside out

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  Guard house of the former railway gate in Lübeck

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1. ↑ Federal fortress Ulm plant XX railway gate , plants for powder and explosives production in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , submarine bunker shipyard "Valentin"
2. ^ Watercolor approaching train , plan sketch railway gate