The Schwabentor gate tower seen from the old town street, with its clock face, onion dome and surrounding half-timbered houses.

Free entry

Schwabentor

The Schwabentor is one of two surviving medieval gate towers in Freiburg's old town, built around 1250. It was heightened and given its crow-stepped gable and onion dome around 1900, then partly simplified again in 1954. A tram line and road now pass through its arch, and a private tin-figure museum occupies the tower.

Nearby

Augustiner Museum

art museum

Historical Merchants' Hall

historic building

Münsterplatz

street

Freiburg Minster

church

Martinstor

monument

Schlossberg

park

Free entry

Free entry — no ticket needed

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