Gate tower
The gate tower rises above or next to a gate of a larger facility.
Usually it is part of a medieval fortification . This can be a city fortification , a fortress or a castle complex. Accordingly, it is then called the city gate tower, fortress tower or castle gate tower. The gate tower can also stand as a twin tower on both sides of a gate system. Gate towers are also symbolically used as the main entrance in the design of modern building complexes. The Kasselburg in Rhineland-Palatinate has a double tower gate tower that was also used as a residential tower .
Johannisturm in Aschersleben
Vladimir Golden Gate
Bernese Zytglogge
Porte de la Grosse Horloge in La Rochelle
Ostentor Regensburg, east side
Gate tower of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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Gate towers of castles and palaces
Candle Arch Gate of the Palatinate Wimpfen , Baden-Wuerttemberg
Gate tower of Lengenfeld Castle , Bavaria
Gate tower keep of Salzburg , Bavaria
Combined gate and chapel tower of Wildenberg Castle , Bavaria
combined gate and residential tower of Kasselburg , Rhineland-Palatinate
Wolkenburg Castle , Saxony
Gate tower of the old Remplin Castle , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Gate tower protruding in front of the castle wall, Wiedersberg Castle , Saxony
