Reimlinger Tor
The Reimlinger Tor stands in southeastern Nördlingen, Bavaria, as one of the town’s five medieval city gates. Its square tower rises beside field-side bridgework and preserved zwinger walls.
Ludwig the Bavarian ordered Nördlingen’s suburbs enclosed with ditches, walls, and fortifications in 1327. The main square substructure was built before 1376. It secured the southeastern road towards Harburg, Donauwörth, Augsburg, and Alpine passes leading to Italy. It remains the earliest of Nördlingen’s five gates.
Builders altered the main structure around 1480, then renewed its highest tower floor and stepped tent roof in 1603. The front gate dates from the early sixteenth century and rose higher in 1597. Plastered brick forms the outer walls, while local suevite shapes the corner stones, jambs, and cornices. Extensive renovation took place in 2015 and 2016. Although the barbican and its two round towers disappeared in 1825, the protected monument retains much of its original character.
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