Zijlpoort

Zijlpoort is a town gate in Leiden, The Netherlands. The gate was constructed in 1667 within the classical style in keeping with a design by the Leiden architect Willem van der Helm and with sculpture via Rombout Verhulst. Because the gates need to hook up with the metropolis wall in addition to with a bridge, the constructing is in the shape of a parallelogram. The Zijlpoort, together with the Morspoort and Doelenpoort are the simplest of the unique 8 gates that survived. The call refers to the close by river, the Zijl.

The predecessor of the Zijlpoort stood at the stop of the Haarlemmerstraat that is now called the Havenplein. In the course of time, the Zijlpoort has, collectively with the corridor above the passage, fulfilled one-of-a-kind purposes over the years: for example, at the beginning of the 18th century, a society of amateur poets and playwrights a so called guild of rederijkers changed into based totally there, and from 1736 there has been a faculty for negative children. Afterwards within the overdue nineteenth century, the metropolis had a storage room above the gate.