Weißer Turm
Medieval gate tower of brick and sandstone, once a toll post, now an entrance to the subway.
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This guide to the Weißer Turm in Nuremberg looks at a medieval gate tower as a machine for moving people and money, from the toll collected under its arch to the escalator that now runs through it. It turns up the inner Spittler Gate, the watchmen who struck Nuremberg's strangely shifting hours, and the citizens who argued for the tower when the city changed hands. Best heard standing at the mouth of the gate passage, looking down.
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