Gothic Gate
The Gothic Chamber Gate on the northern plateau is one of the sparse traces of the medieval castle com-plex on the Schlossberg. The surviving name ‘Rear Gate’ indicates that the passageway was created after the castle was extended with a second wall in the late Middle Ages. The Chamber Gate created a link bet-ween the Rear Ward and the interior of the fortress. When the fortress was built from 1544 on, it was integrated as a basement room and thus remained intact. It also survived the later construction of the Fire Watcher’s House in 1820 and the conversion of the plateau into a panorama terrace in 1894. After being rediscovered in 1982 and excavated between 1998 and 2001, the gate can be accessed again.
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