Brama Starotoruńska w Toruniu, Medieval city gate in Old Town, Toruń, Poland.
The Starotoruńska Gate was a four-story defensive tower located where Kopernika Street and Pod Krzywą Wieżą Street meet, surrounded by walls and moats. The structure formed part of a larger defense system that regulated entry to the city.
The gate was constructed in the second half of the 13th century as the western entrance to the city. Prussian authorities demolished it in 1888, despite its ability to survive fires and structural modifications over the centuries.
The gate represented the city's medieval defenses and marked the western entrance that residents and travelers knew for centuries. It embodied the building style typical of major city passages from that era.
Fragments of the defensive structure can still be examined at the site where the gate once stood, including sections of walls and parts of the semicircular moat. Visiting the intersection of those two streets helps you locate what remains of this medieval installation.
After a fire in 1622, the structure was rebuilt with an asymmetrical design where the inner facade became lower than the outer one. This unusual shape distinguished it from typical defensive towers of that period.
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