{{Short description|Fortified tower at a major gateway}} {{For|the building in Japan|Gate Tower Building}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2022}} A '''gate tower''' is a tower built over or next to a major gateway.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Burgen und feste Plätze : europäischer Wehrbau vor Einführung der Feuerwaffen : systematisches Fachwörterbuch = Châteaux-forts et places fortes : architecture militaire européenne avant l'introduction des armes à feu : dictionnaire spécialisé et systématique = Castles and fortified places : European military architecture before the introduction of firearms : specialized and systematic dictionary. |date=1996 |publisher=K.G. Saur |isbn=978-3-11-097269-6 |edition=3., neu bearbeitete und erw. Aufl |location=München |oclc=604518608}}</ref>

Usually it is part of a medieval fortification. This may be a town or city wall, fortress, castle or castle chapel. The gate tower may be built as a twin tower on either side of an entranceway. Even in the design of modern building complexes, gate towers may be constructed symbolically as a main entrance. The gate tower can also stand as a twin tower on both sides of a gate system. Gate towers are also used symbolically as the main entrance in the design of modern building complexes. The Kasselburg in Rhineland-Palatinate has a double tower gate tower, which was also used as a residential tower.

== Gallery == <gallery mode="packed" heights="150px"> Image:Linzertor3.JPG|The Linz Gate in Freistadt, Austria Image:Remplin Torturm.JPG|Remplin gate tower, Germany Image:Russia-Vladimir-Golden Gate-2.jpg|Golden Gate at Vladimir, Russia Image:Zytglogge 01.jpg|Bern Zytglogge, Switzerland Image:Leutschau - polska brana.jpg|Polish Gate in Levoča, Slovakia File:Egremont IMG 1323 - panoramio.jpg|The late 12th-century gate tower of Egremont Castle, Cumbria, England File:Puerta Baja, Daroca, Zaragoza, España, 2014-01-08, DD 07.JPG|Puerta Baja gate in Daroca, Aragon, Spain, built in the XV century. </gallery>

== See also == * Tower * Gate * Gatehouse * City gate * Triumphal arch * Fortified gateway * ''Que'' (tower)

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