THE BERLIN WALL OF 1842: VANISHED CITY GATES

Rosenthaler Tor, a northern city gate, in 1860 - the gate stood on today’s Rosenthaler Platz at Torstraße (whose names comes from several city gates that stood along or in immediate vicinity of the road). The gate was demolished several years later. Image in public domain, here from a book by Hela Zetter and Horst Mauter “Berlin - in frühen Photographien 1844-1900”.

“Back then the city was still surrounded by a wall and right outside almost all of the city gates lay meadows and fields. That was, naturally, also the case with the ‘Anhaltstor’.