Maintor

Main city gate of the historic city of Wertheim

This is the main city gate of the the beautiful and historic city of Wertheim. it was build to protect the locals from intruders. Its fantastic that its in excellent condition and kept for futur...

Tough to get an elephant thru

A very functional city gate with a small opening. beer trucks avoid it and go around thru the side entrance to the town

Not the most elaborate but an asset to the village

Over the last few weeks I've seen a fair few Alsatian and Bavarian "city gates", this one although preserved very well and in good condition isn't as elaborately decorated as I have seen, still it fee...

Historic gate

Arriving at Wertheim on a river cruise ship we entered the town here. In the past there were, like in many other towns several of these gate towers. It is not particularly high since the ground level...

Beautiful, well maintain piece of history

We arrived by way of river cruise, so this was the gate we entered the village from. It is a little different now, because they raised everything up about 3 feet due to flooding, but it is still the o...