City Wall
8 places in Cologne
Bottmühle
The Bottmühle in Cologne's southern Old Town is a 17th-century stone tower windmill standing on an old fortification platform behind the medieval city wall.
Filzengrabentor
A gate in Cologne's Rhine wall built around 1200 at the Filzengraben, demolished in 1854 and no longer preserved today.
Frankenturm – the vanished defensive and prison tower on the Trankgasse
The Frankenturm was a medieval tower of Cologne's city wall near today's Frankenwerft, demolished in 1856. Only the street name „Am Frankenturm" and three salvaged stone panels in the Cologne City Museum still recall it.
Hansaplatz
A heritage-protected park on the Hansaring in Cologne's northern old town, framed by a 113-metre stretch of the medieval city wall.
The Kahlenhausen or Jews' Gate (Judenpforte)
A short-lived medieval gate in the north-eastern stretch of Cologne's city wall between the Eigelstein gate and the Kunibert tower, recorded in 1349 as the "porta judeorum" and no longer preserved today.
Pantaleonstor – a Vanished Double Gate of Cologne's City Wall
The Pantaleonstor was a medieval double-tower gate in Cologne's city wall that from 1844 even served as the passage for the city's first railway to Bonn, before being demolished in 1894.
Trankgassentor Gate
A medieval gate in Cologne's riverside fortifications that vanished for good in 1898 after several rebuildings.
