>you call that a gate house bro
Your cunts gate house
Christopher Gutierrez
Sebastian Jones
technically not a gate but it serves the same function
Daniel Clark
Ooof
Bro
Germany has some great gate houses. This one's pretty decorative,but to originate from medevil times with extensions or redesigns possibly.
Xavier Reyes
Juan Williams
I kind of fancy this one. Its a kind of gate that could be done within a few months by a few chaps of 10 people today. Work would be rough, but with all the food & supplies on hand it could be done.
David Flores
Ryan Allen
Heh, you were asking for the gate house to our cunt
Here the Severinstorburg in Cologne.
Parker Jones
and the Hahnentorburg also on Cologne
James Martinez
Porta Nigra in Trier. Although the name is incorrect (black gate) because when it was build it was pure sandstone. Now its black due to weathering. We have no clue what the romans called it.
Connor Harris
Sterntor in Bonn. I would go out and shoot an actual picture, but i am at the moment not in town.
Ayden Peterson
>The gun chambers are in front of the loopholes. Today there are guns in the chambers of the second floor, but they are not originals and were placed there at a late date. Above the gun chambers are hooks from which chains were suspended and attached to the cannon to cushion the recoil after firing. The higher gun chambers of the first upper storey could only be accessed with ladders.
Hunter Bell
The diameters on that must be pretty wide to fit that entire tower on top.
Oliver Hill
>Cologne
Sound like this was an area of turmoil for a while to have propped up so many gate houses or fortifications.
Ryder Robinson
VGH... the gate house of eld....
Jaxon Mitchell
Lol finalnd your castles are kind of different.
Kayden Reyes
Tudor gatehouse in my hometown
The council tried to tear it down in the 60s but a mad old battleaxe led a campaign to save it (thank the Lord)
Hudson Morgan
And one from York, not far away
Isaac Rodriguez
The industrial revolution had a bunch of riots in England I found out. England was like building gate houses through the 1900s for actual deterent protection.
Pic:
Nolan Roberts
I’ve been there, looks like the one in Warwick too
Cooper Young
I'm not goinf to find one example of british gate housss, but was like in rhe middle of the down town parliament housing area between the streets. It was a rounded gate house manned by like 1 to 2 men at all times wirh guns. The brits seemed to have given probate security the right to arms back then..
This isnt the photo.
Nicholas Brown
Slightly off topic but do you like Palmerston's Follies and the WWII defences, Americanon?
And did you like York? I like York
Colton Davis
Using the google measuring tool: 17m lenght and 15m width
Cologne was a roman colony and capital of the roman province of Germania inferior, is still the seat of an archbishop, was a free city within the HRE and was a major trading hub throughout the middle ages and modern age. The City was loaded with cash and thus could afford extensive fortifiacations. But the city was never direclty besieged.
Luke Clark
Neat integration within the existing buildings.
My hometown was too small for wall, but where my grandmother live is a nice gatehouse. Its called Schelmenturm (Schelm meaning someone like a more playful rogue). It was used as a prison.
Christian Davis
>Palmerston's Follies
Aren't those these round forts built within the sea out of fear of a french invasion during the napoleonic wars?
I think they are pretty tight. But it must have been a big undertaking to build those.
Angel Hughes
rural sweden has traditional building types called "portlider" and "porthärbre" (lit. "gate shed").
they are economical buildings, usually storehouses, that also serve as gateways.
Alexander Edwards
Yes these were just amazing but in the end they were just places the French navy avoided. I suppose rhe argument could be made that these were deterients to keep the French out of parts of the sea and have the french ships routed in predictable directions, but they ate up resources & troops.
Camden Rogers
>Cologne was a roman colony and capital of the roman province of Germania inferior, is still the seat of an archbishop, was a free city within the HRE and was a major trading hub throughout the middle ages and modern age. The City was loaded with cash and thus could afford extensive fortifiacations. But the city was never direclty besieged.
That makes more sense.
The city would still serve well then in today's troubled times with all those forts at least on a civikian level, but not air raids.
The German catholic church is in trouble these days due to direct German law & politics intertwined with the taxes.
>Using the google measuring tool: 17m lenght and 15m width
Not bad. Some castles aren't even that large.
A tower like this is kind of ideal for an comm8b tolk gate house in my opinion.
Isaac Reed
I'm guessing highwaymen & bandits just didn't have that large of wide spread amount through the centuries like Britian, France, and Germany through the 1700's - late 1800s if not even the early 1900s.
Question: what were people actually defending from? These are pretty cool. Quite a few neat examples similar to this.
Luke Gonzalez
I'm not sure whether they were actually designed with a defensive purpose.
villages were typically fenced off from the surrounding hinterlands, and then you'd usually have some fencing between different properties within the villages. most fences just had normal openings (e.g. no gatehouses).
I suspect that the rural gatehouses were mainly a way of making use of space without obstructing movement.
Easton Davis
>The city would still serve well then in today's troubled times with all those forts at least on a civikian level, but not air raids.
The fortifications were razed during the mid 19th century, since they didnt do shit against modern weaponry and streets and more place to build houses and commercial buisnisses was far more important. And what do you mean with todays troubled time? If france would attack us (they wont) those old fortifications would be even more impractical.
>The German catholic church is in trouble these days due to direct German law & politics intertwined with the taxes.
The Church has to bow before the state. nd the state should not enforce taxes upon its populace to prop up the church. And the Curch should not need the state to be proped up.
>Question: what were people actually defending from? These are pretty cool. Quite a few neat examples similar to this.
In Germany we had many robber barons and feuds between the nobility and cities. So there was a number of internal threats. Robber barons would enter the service of a noble familiy or city and then fight for them. Much like mercenaries. And due to the geographic location of germany many invasions happend. So the need arose to fortify as much as possible, when money/time and material was available.
Dont know much about the scandis though. Sweden had a few wars with denmark, but thats their tale to tell.
Noah Green
>I suspect that the rural gatehouses were mainly a way of making use of space without obstructing movement.
Just as easily feasible. The ones I'm seeing do have a general second level with some small windows though. They may have been keeping a defensive stand point in mind if nothing else.
>And what do you mean with todays troubled time? If france would attack us (they wont) those old fortifications would be even more impractical.
In terms of civil unrest among civilian agitators, horses of tribal regional like gang wars starting up among the horses of 3rd world ((((immigrants)))), and eventually Europe splitting up again.
Of course any large military fraction today along with their air support are going to blow up anything with relative eve.
Muslims are collecting crossbows across Europe to side strp fire arms laws. Small fire arms when governments break down in Europe will not do too much damage in these small widow fortifiacations.
I tend to get quite a bit of push back specifically from Germans on this very same comment and notion of civil distress that will stem from Germany's ((((migrant)))) and (((refugee))) crisis.
France will have to deal with this too, but at least some French law is pushing back along side French national advocates trying to kick the mulims out.
German politics does not serve the people and you can just count England/the U.K as a soon to be civil war zone. That island just can't go without wars it seems.
>In Germany we had many robber barons and feuds between the nobility and cities. So there was a number of internal threats. Robber barons would enter the service of a noble familiy or city and then fight for them. Much like mercenaries. And due to the geographic location of germany many invasions happend. So the need arose to fortify as much as possible, when money/time and material was available.
Right - The scandis are rather docile because no one wanted their lands for the most part.