Gate lock

A gate lock is the opening of a city ​​gate for a small amount of money after it had previously been closed like all other city gates in a city to control the night's rest. Well-known gate barriers were among others:

• Hamburg gate lock
• Lübeck gate lock
• Bremen gate lock

The term gate closing panic used in a figurative sense has its origin in the centuries-old practice of closing the gate in cities.

Web links

• All about the city gate: gate closure and gate lock on basler-bauten.ch