The Highland Gate in Gdańsk
The Highland Gate in Gdańsk starts the so-called ‘Royal Route’, which takes you along Długa Street and the Długi Targ Street up to the Green Gate. Its builder, Hans Kramer of Saxony, erected it as a link in the chain of modern fortifications put up to frame the western city borders between 1574-1576. Initially made of brick, it gained its present shape in 1588 thanks to a transformation carried out by Willem van den Blocke, of Flemish origin.
Source of description: http://www.en.gdansk.gda.pl/tourists,7,9042.html by
Urząd Miasta Gdańsk
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Hans Kramer Willem van den Blocke |
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Style |
Renaissance |
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architecture military structures |
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Material |
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brick |