The Town Gates
The Town Gates
Four no more available gates led from the town into its suburbs:the Viennese gate into the suburb of Angern, the gate of Linz into the suburb of Trewald, and the monastery gate into the suburb of Piesenegg, to the Franciscan‘s monastery, its hospital, and farther upstream to the sunk castle Donaudorf, to which a special exhibition area is dedicated in this museum.Mural paintings at the former locations of the gates show their original appearance. Near the Viennese gate there was once a free house. In the course of the 19th century the Barbenbergerhofwas erected on this site.
The fourth gate, the so-called Wasser- or Sandtor, was a big exit in the otherwise closed Danube front leading through the Schiffsmeisterhaus. Today this gate is only visible as a vault. It lost its impressive size due to levelling of the ground. The 1880 demolition of the urban warehouse, which was located next to the Schiffsmeisterhaus, made the creation of an open square with view to the Danube possible.
For passer-byes there was a passage close to the ship landingstation. In the last decade of the twentieth century anotherexit was created close to the church.
