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Gottesackertor

Beschreibung

Already in the High Middle Ages Bretten owned three city gates. The „Salzhofer Tor“ – also called „Untertor“ direction Pforzheim, the „Weißhofer Tor“ direction Knittlingen and furthur to Cannstatt as well as the „Gottesackertor“, leading to Bruchsal and on to Heidelberg. All gates were part oft the city wall and had gate keepers. A rooftop rider on the house next door and a modern clay sculpture set up here in 1991 remind of the former site. After the set up of a cemetery in front of the western part of the city wall (“Gottesacker”), this name started to be commonly used.