All local gates or gatehouses were always called "gates" in earlier documents, while "gates" only meant courtyard gates.

At the upper end of Aufhof-Straße (the "Uffhub"), a relatively well-preserved "gate" with three outer walls opened up an earlier route over the Mainzer Berg to Wackernheim and Mainz ("Hesselweg").

The gate visible today, actually only the front and side walls of a gatehouse, stands on the remains of an older predecessor gate (construction time unknown) according to the findings of Mrs. Hundhausen and was built in the first half of the 15th century. built. The complex still has the outer walls of a battlement floor, which (later or from the beginning?) served as a dwelling, decorated on the outside with a round arch frieze and rounded at the top like shell towers. The many window openings show the use as an apartment. Above the top of the gate, brackets carry a pitcher's bay, the so-called machicolation, two loopholes for rifles have been added to the left and right - originally or only during a romanticized restoration? Inside, the deep top mortises of the gate leaves have been preserved. Above that was the floor of the battlements or the gatehouse dwelling. Frau Hundhausen did not report anything about the location of a stairway, which could not use a tower here; it must have been attached to the outside on the left or right.
Source: ingelheimer-geschichte.de/index.php?id=347

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The gate is located on the southwestern city limits of Ober-Ingelheim near the castle church. In the immediate vicinity is the second Ober-Ingelheim power station (today called Altes E-Werk). In 2008, a green space was created next to the gate.
Uffhub derives from Aufhof due to the dialect. The street below the Uffhubtor bears the official name Aufhof. In the Middle Ages, it led to the noble farmsteads in Stiegelgasse.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffhubtor

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