Sendlinger Tor

This guide to Sendlinger Tor in Munich follows three thousand Bavarian farmers who marched toward this gate on a freezing night in December 1705, armed with pitchforks and clubs, after Austria occupied Bavaria and began conscripting local men. It traces the plan sympathizers inside the city had to let the peasant army through the walls, and the gate's own history back to 1318 as the start of the road south to Sendling and Italy. Best heard from the plaza, facing the twin Gothic towers that watched it all unfold.