Wassertor, Wismar

The Water Gate in Wismar on Wasserstraße in the northwest of the city's historic center is a port gate of the Hanseatic city in the style of brick Gothic and the last surviving of formerly five city gates of the Wismar city fortifications. The street leading to it is called Spiegelberg. It was also the only beach or harbor gate through which one could enter the city directly from the harbor. The others, all land gates, were the Poeler Tor or Haraldstor in the north, furthermore the Mecklenburger Tor in the south, the Lübsche Tor in the west as well as the Altwismartor or Rostocker Tor as counterpart in the east, in each case at the end of the street of the same name. South of the Wassertor, there was another "Wassertor" as a wall passage of the Grube, a canal-like east-west running artificial water arm from the 13th century and in the southeast a wind gate.