Going back a couple of weeks to the short visit that Richard and I made to Memmingen, in Germany. This is the Lindau Gate, named after the town of Lindau on Lake Constance which the road once led to. The gate was originally constructed in 1371, but it got a bit damaged to say the least during the 1647 siege of the town.
A cannonball from that siege is still lodged in the gate. I suppose that they might as well leave it there now….
The gate as seen from within the city centre and it’s quite a chunky arrangement, but it did have to keep undesirables and foreign armies out.
Today, the rooms above the gate are used by the Fishermen’s Day Association and the Christian Scout Association Crossbearers group, with traffic still passing through the gate itself. Indeed, Richard drove through and fortunately didn’t hit or cause any damage to it.