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accessibility of a fast-growing metropolis of the industrial ages, above all considering exploding private traffic and increasing modern public transport (coaches, horse drawn and electrical tramways!), from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries gate tower passages were gradually extended – both in width and height – and sometimes even side walls had to be broken through.
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Via an open wooden runway visitors first had to cross a side arm of the moat surrounding a barbican, semi-circle shaped in the
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Between 1285 and 1347 the existing first town walls were supplemented with a new, second, double-ring fortification for and around fast-growing Munich, significantly extending the populated and protected area. The gate must have been created during an early stage of that building process, because it
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