# Wertachbrucker Tor

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Wertachbrucker Tor rises in Augsburg as a medieval city gate and tower, built around 1370 within the city wall. Its passage once collected customs from people and goods entering the city, before the fortification took on a defensive role.

Elias Holl raised and remodelled the tower in 1605, creating the form visible today. Swedish and French attacks were repelled here during the Thirty Years’ War, and Napoleon entered Augsburg through the gate in 1805. The city removed the wall southwest of the tower in 1867, while the Augsburg carpenters’ guild led its restoration in 1998. Today, the guild uses the seven-level building as a Zunftturm and event venue, with exhibitions, archives, a guild room, and its traditional guild flag.

Narrow, winding stairs connect the levels, including the Meisterstube at the top, where you can look across Augsburg. The tower accommodates about 30 people and preserves a small kitchen, historical photographs, information boards, and old guild documents within its surviving structure.

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## Photos

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