Catherine's Gate

Catherine's Gate in Bra?ov, Romania, turned into built by using the Tailors’ Guild, in 1559 for protecting functions in preference to an old gate destroyed via the flood in 1526. It is named after St. Catherine's Monastery that was situated right here in former times. It is the most effective unique city gate to have survived from medieval instances. In fact the vital tower is most effective a part of the unique gate; files communicate approximately the life of a timber structure which changed into demolished in 1827. The unique shape can be seen at the Weaver's Bastion where the massive version of Bra?ov in 1600 is displayed. Old files point out it below the call of Porta Valacce, the Vallah's Gate as it changed into the handiest front for the Romanians living in ?cheii Bra?ovului. They had been now not allowed to use the opposite 4 entrances. During the Saxon rule of the thirteenth to seventeenth century

Romanians were forbidden from proudly owning property inside the citadel walls and such they settled outdoor the wall inside the neighborhood named ?cheii Bra?ovului. Romanians ought to handiest input the city at sure times and needed to pay a toll at the gate for the privilege of selling their produce in the citadel. The 4 small nook turrets additionally visible in other Transylvanian cities signify the truth that the town had judicial autonomy, and the "proper of sword" ius gladii which turned into the right to determine on capital punishment. Above the doorway the tower bears the town's coat of arms, a crown on an very welltree trunk and roots.