Having already written about the Holstentor Gate, I thought that I would have a little look around the museum which is located inside it.
This was one of my favourite exhibits at the museum, it’s the sixteenth century oak double eagle that was originally on display above the outer gate. For hundreds of years, visitors to the city would have entered underneath this eagle, I like the significance of that.
The outer gate (on extreme left of this model in the museum) was removed in 1853 to allow the railways in as plans started to demolish the entire structure, with the inner gate (the other side of the river) already having been demolished in 1828.