List of city gates and defense towers in Brandenburg

The list of city gates and defense towers in Brandenburg includes all preserved city gates , city defense towers and waiting towers in front of the cities in Brandenburg . Are not included Wiekhäuser and vestiges of the former city fortifications and towers of castles, fortresses and castles .

At around 1410 meters, almost half of the Prenzlau city wall still exists today with Wiek houses, wall towers, gate towers and remains of the ramparts. The field stone wall in Bernau near Berlin is up to 8 meters high and about 1300 meters long. The Brandenburg city wall , which has largely been preserved , still contains four city gate towers. Large parts of the old city wall of Luckau from the 13th and 14th centuries have been preserved. In Templin , the 1735 meter long and up to seven meter high city wall with towers, city gates and 50 Wiek houses is still completely preserved. The city wall in Wittstock / Dosse with ramparts and moats is 2,500 meters long, originally up to 11 meters high (today still 4-7 meters) and has around 30 Wiekhäuser, ramparts and spacious public green areas.

List of city gates and defense towers

city	Surname	construction time	height	particularities
Altlandsberg	Berlin gate tower	1400!14./15. century		square stone tower next to the not preserved gate passage; with a brick pyramid-shaped helmet
Altlandsberg	Strausberger gate tower (stork tower )	1400!14./15. century		square gate tower next to the not preserved gate passage; with bricked cone-shaped helmet
Angermünde	Powder tower	1300!13./14. century	20.54 meters	cylindrical defense tower with crenellated crown and octagonal brick helmet, massive basement; 1698–1740 prison, until 1857 storage tower for powder supplies, 1877–1914 poor house
Beeskow	Luckauer Torurm (thick tower)	1321	24 meters	Tower of the former Luckauer Tor with crenellated wreath, eight-sided massive pyramid and machicolation ; Decorative elements on the field side a quatrefoil frieze and a mesh pattern; served as a powder magazine after 1729; the Beeskow gates were demolished in 1843
Beeskow	Drying tower			massive cylindrical defense tower, served as a warehouse for brewing barley
Beeskow	Mint tower	1322!after 1321		Cylindrical defense tower with a crenellated crown and octagonal conical point, probably used to store coins and metals for coin casting, then as a prison until 1910
Beeskow	Mouse tower	1322!after 1321		octagonal defense tower with battlements and bricked cone point
Beeskow	Stork tower	1322!after 1321		cylindrical defense tower with battlements and octagonal cone point
Beeskow	Powder tower			cylindrical defense tower
Bernau	Stone gate	1485!last quarter of the 15th century		connected to the hunger tower by a covered battlement
Bernau	Starvation tower			round wall tower, connected to the stone gate by a covered battlement
Bernau	Powder tower
Brandenburg on the Havel	Plauer gate tower	1450!15th century		round gate tower next to the non-preserved passage; Tower closure modernized
Brandenburg on the Havel	Rathenower gate tower	1400!14./15. Century, structurally changed in the 16th century		designed with pilaster strips , horizontal decorative friezes and gradations as well as round and coat of arms panels embedded in the masonry ; led northwest to Rathenow ; In 1910 a breakthrough was made on the ground floor for pedestrians
Brandenburg on the Havel	Neustadtischer Mühlentorturm	1411	28.85 meters	octagonal gate tower with pointed arches next to the non-preserved passage; Finished with a crenellated wreath and a stone, also octagonal pyramid; named after the water mills on the Mühlendamm; led northeast to Spandau ; probably served as a prison
Brandenburg on the Havel	Stone gate tower	1433!first half of the 15th century, first mentioned in 1433	32.5 meters	round tower next to the non-preserved passage; Conclusion with crenellated wreath and conical helmet; led via Ziesar to Magdeburg ; named after the stone road; served as a prison, today exhibition rooms of the city museum of the city of Brandenburg
Brandenburg on the Havel	Landwehr tower of the Neustadt Landwehr	1433! 15th century		upstream guard tower of the Landwehr; Cylindrical basement made of field stones and octagonal half-timbered structure with tiled roof
cottbus	Spremberger Tower	1300!13./14. century	31 meters
cottbus	Mint tower	1300!13./14. century
cottbus	Linden gate	13./14. century
Dahme	Bird tower	1563		Defense tower, originally part of one of the two city gates; was badly damaged in a city fire in 1563 and rebuilt in 1892
Fürstenwalde	Bull tower	1450!14./15. century		cylindrical defense tower with battlements and bricked cone point
Fürstenwerder	Woldegker Tor	1250!13th Century		ruin
Fürstenwerder	Berlin Gate	1250!13th Century		ruin
Gartz	Szczecin Gate	1450!15th century	27 meters	Square tower over the passage with a gable roof and rectangular blind wall on the field side, main construction time late 15th century with the exception of the field stone basement, which is older
Gartz	Stork tower	1450!15th century		square wall tower with octagonal tower, crenellated wreath and conical helmet
Gartz	Powder tower	1450!15th century	08!8 meters	cylindrical defense tower
Gartz	Blue hat			rectangular wall tower with round tower top with conical pointed helmet; Destroyed in 1945, remains of the tower restored in 1991
Gransee	Ruppiner Tor			Waldemartor
Gransee	Gransee watchtower
Gransee	Powder tower
Jueterbog	Dam gate	1350!14th Century
Jueterbog	Zinna Gate	1350!14th Century
Jueterbog	Neumarkter Tor	1350!14th Century
Jueterbog	Egg tower	1350!14th Century		Cylindrical defense tower (egg-shaped floor plan, hence the name) with crenellated crown and bricked conical helmet
Jueterbog	Defense tower at Dammtor I.	1350!14th Century		Cylindrical defense tower with a brick conical helmet, once connected to the other defense tower at the Dammtor by an inner archway
Jueterbog	Defense tower at Dammtor II	1350!14th Century		Cylindrical defense tower with crenellated crown and bricked conical helmet, once connected to the other defense tower at the dam gate by an inner archway
Jueterbog	Wall tower on Südhag	1350!14th Century		square defense tower with covered pointed helmet and trim
Jueterbog	Slate wall tower	1350!14th Century		cylindrical defense tower with battlements and conical helmet
Jueterbog	Defense tower Schulstrasse	1350!14th Century		square defense tower with fascia decoration
Lenzen	Blunt tower
Luckau	Red Tower	1300!13./14. century	30 meters
Luckau	Sandoer Tor			only leftovers received
Mittenwalde	Berlin Gate			only get the front gate
Mittenwalde	Powder tower		25 meters
Müncheberg	Berlin Gate			only received the main gate
Müncheberg	Küstriner gate tower
Pearl Mountain	Watchtower
Potsdam	Nauen Gate	1755
Potsdam	Hunter gate	1733
Potsdam	Brandenburg Gate	1770
Prenzlau	Schwedter Gate Tower (stone gate tower )	1300!13./14. century
Prenzlau	Central Gate Tower	1450!15th century	30 meters
Prenzlau	Blindower Gate Tower (Szczecin Gate Tower)	1300!13./14. century	32 meters	cylindrical gate tower with a square substructure and crenellated crown with a bricked cone helmet
Prenzlau	Seilerturm	1450!15th century	16 meters	rectangular defense tower with hipped roof
Prenzlau	Witch tower	1450!15th century	25 meters	cylindrical defense tower with battlements and bricked cone point
Prenzlau	Powder tower	1450!15th century		cylindrical defense tower
Pritzwalk	Rocker tower	1350!14th Century		Defense tower made of field stones
Templin	Berlin Gate	1320!around 1320
Templin	Mill gate	1320!around 1320		Square tower over the passage with city and field side gables, Fial pillars on the gable slopes, field side with portcullis
Templin	Prenzlauer Tor	1350!14th Century		Gate system with gate tower, kennel and front gate; Square three-storey main gate with city and field side gables, front gate with blind decoration and two passage openings
Templin	Powder tower	1450!15th century		Cylindrical defense tower with a brick cone hat, was used to store gunpowder
Templin	Owl Tower (Hunger Tower)	1350!14th Century		cylindrical defense tower made of field stones
Treuenbrietzen	Powder tower			cylindrical defense tower with battlements and bricked cone point
Wittenberg	Stone gate (old tower)	1430!around 1430		Previous building with a wooden upper floor in the middle of the 13th century; destroyed by a city fire; served as a prison, since 1926 city and local museum
Wittstock / Dosse	Gröper Tor	1350!14th Century		on the north side of the city; protected the exit towards Mecklenburg; built in the 14th century, raised in 1503 and provided with a pyramid roof; formerly reinforced by a front gate, ramparts and three ditches