Pincer gate

Pincer gate is called a gate in a fortification system that is deeply embedded between inwardly pivoting outer walls. Comers to the gate had to go through the resulting thus defile approach and could parried on both sides from the wall - taken in a pincer - be.

Pincer gates have already been proven for Urnfield and Celtic fortifications in Central Europe as well as early medieval ramparts , but were in use until the high Middle Ages .

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  Northwestern gate of the Hildesheim Domburg

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  Reconstruction drawing of a pincer gate (information board at the Finsterlohr oppidum )

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  Reconstruction of the Celtic pincer gate (1st BC) in Zeme Keltu , Nasavrky, Czech Republic

literature

• Reinhard Friedrich: Gate. In: Horst Wolfgang Böhme , Reinhard Friedrich, Barbara Schock-Werner : Dictionary of castles, palaces and fortresses . Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-010547-1 , pp. 241-242, doi: 10.11588 / arthistoricum.535 .