Ponttor

It was worked in the fourteenth century and kept an eye on by officers and civilian army all through the Free Imperial City of Aachen period. The westernmost of the north-bound entryways the other being the Sandkaultor, which never again exists. In the principal entrance, there is a Portcullis and additionally a machicolation, through which things could be dropped on attacking powers. The Ponttor in Aachen, Germany, known in the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years as the Brückenpforte or Brückenthor is one of the two residual entryways of the first city mass of Aachen the other being the Marschiertor.

A scaffold entry with crenelations traversed a channel and was fortified in the Foregate with two strengthened towers barbicans. ThePonttor was developed as a right-calculated three-stock pinnacle manor. The building material was Devonian sandstone, Pennsylvanian carbonite sandstone, and quartzite, with the surrounding material made of light bluestone.