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Osthofentor (Soest)

Germany / Nordrhein-Westfalen / Soest
 museum, city gate, historical building

The Osthofentor in Soest is a former city gate, built with local greenish sandstone in the period from 1523 to 1526. The gate is the only one remaining of the ten that guarded the old Hanseatic city. It now houses a museum of municipal history, and has a collection of 25,000 medieval crossbow bolts.
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Coordinates:   51°34'25"N   8°6'57"E
This article was last modified 11 years ago