Sendlinger Tor

Sendling Gate is a city gate at the southern extremity of the historic old town area of Munich. It served as a fortification for the defence and is one of Munich’s three remaining gothic town gates. As part of the great urban expansion by Ludwig the Bavarian (from 1285 to 1337), a second city wall with four town gates was built, of which Sendlinger Tor was one. In 1318, it was first mentioned as a starting point for the road to Italy, but was probably existing earlier. In 1808 the central tower was demolished. In 1860 a restoration of the two remaining Medieval flanking towers and the wall with three arches. In 1906, these original three arches were replaced by the one large single arch. In the Second World War, the gate was barely damaged. It was refurbished in the 1980s. On the Sendlinger Tor, a remnant of the old city wall can still be seen, which previously went up the Herzog-Wilhelm-Str.