Holsten Gate

Why go

This record is the gate, with the Museum Holstentor, part of Die Lübecker Museen, as its use. The museum's pages say the gate was built in 1464 to 1478 by the city master builder Hinrich Helmstede after Dutch models, both to defend the city and to represent its status, that it never came under attack, and that of Lübeck's city gates only the Burgtor and the Holstentor survive. They say the lean of the south tower comes from an insufficient foundation on marshy ground and was stopped only by the restoration of 1933/34, and that a Latin inscription from 1871 over the passage on the field side reads, in translation, 'Harmony within, peace without'. Inside, the museum's exhibition 'The Power of Trade' presents Lübeck's Hanseatic trade with ship models, armour, weapons, legal instruments and merchandise.