Cihelná brána, Empire-style gate in Vyšehrad, Czech Republic

Cihelná brána is an Empire-style gate featuring three passages: a central carriageway and two pedestrian routes set within the fortification walls. Guard rooms flank these passages on either side of the structure.

Karel Chotek, supreme burgrave of the Kingdom of Bohemia, had a new northern entrance cut through the curtain of the older Baroque wall. The gate was built to the design of military engineer Johann Weisse, dated 1835, and ceremonially opened on 4 November 1841 together with the new road linking the New Town with Pankrác.

This gate serves as one of the primary entrances to the Vyšehrad fortification complex and shapes the first impression visitors have when approaching this historic site. It connects the modern city with the medieval structures that lie beneath the ground.

The gate is reached from Nové Město via Vratislavova Street, which continues on Vyšehrad as V Pevnosti Street. One of Vyšehrad's two information centres sits inside the gate, and from here visitors enter the casemates with the Gorlice Hall.

The gate's outer facades are built of exposed brickwork, which gave the gate its Czech name Cihelná brána, meaning Brick Gate. It is also called Nová brána, the New Gate, because it opened a new northern entrance through the older Baroque curtain wall.