Hofheim in Lower Franconia still has three historic city gates. All three have a similar shape, are two storeys high and are wider than they are tall. The upper floor, in which the gatekeeper once lived, is half-timbered, and the gates are covered with a tiled hipped roof. These are no longer well-fortified, attack-defying buildings with towers and defense systems, but rather customs and control posts. Some of the associated city wall has been preserved. Walls can be seen in the west of the old town along the Philosophenweg, as well as in the southwest along the Poststraße west of the Upper Gate, where you can still see several round towers of the city fortifications.

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March 23, 2023

In the north there are more remains and a round tower built into the houses, and in the east only the ring road traces the former course of the Wall. In the northwest of the city is the Lower Gate, also known as the Brauhaustor, Badtor or Lendershäuser Tor (not shown). It stands between Lendershäuser Strasse (field side) and Landgerichtsstrasse (city side). It was built in 1713 and renovated in 2002. It is the only one of the three gates without a coat of arms.

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March 23, 2023

In the north-east of the city is the Chapel Gate or Weth Gate (pictured above), also known as the Goßmannsdorf Gate. It is at the end of the main street and looks out onto the Ringstrasse and Eichelsdorferstrasse on the field side. The gate was built in 1714. Since 1999, the upper floor has been the Red Cross Museum. On the field side, above the gate passage, we can see the full coat of arms of the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau-Vollrath (1699-1719).

Source 1.- 3. : welt-der-wappen.de/Heraldik/aktuell/galerien3/galerie1986.htm

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