Riehentor
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The row gate seen from the outside. Theodorskirche in the background on the left (watercolor, around 1840/1850)
The Riehentor was a city gate of the city of Basel and was once part of the Basel city wall . It was the second city gate in Kleinbasel next to the wind instrument . A few years after the Basel City Extension Act was passed in 1859, it was demolished.
Web links
- mybasel.ch - the city of seven gates
- Tramclub Basel - route history
- Riehentor (& Bläsitor) on altbasel.ch http://www.altbasel.ch/fragen/blaesitor_riehentor.html
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '35 .9 " N , 7 ° 35' 48.3" E ; CH1903: 611,901 / two hundred sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and six