Lower Gate (Aichach)

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Lower gate in Aichach (field side)
City side

The Lower Gate in Aichach , the district town of the Aichach-Friedberg district in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , was built in 1418. The city ​​gate at Stadtplatz 2 is a protected architectural monument .

history

The lower floors of the octagon were built in 1418. The pointed helmet dates from 1646 after the damage was repaired during the Thirty Years War . The side passages were created in 1864. The clerk used to live upstairs.

A branch of the Munich State Archaeological Collection has been housed in the tower's rooms since 1989 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '37 "  N , 11 ° 7' 56.6"  E