Mill Gate - Pilařova

Nice and well-kept monument

Magic gate ...

Ordinary gateway. Nothing special except for the lock position.

The Mill Gate is the entrance to the chateau, beautifully maintained and probably used to import goods from the mill.

Gate to the castle

There is no mill on the great gate, but what would you like from the old gate, which was the former edge of Kroměříž The Mill Gate (Mühltor), structurally connected to the building of the archbishop's chateau, therefore sometimes called the Castle Gate (Schlosstor) or the Residence Gate (Rezidenztor), used to be part of the city fortifications. The early Baroque adaptation is reminiscent of a preserved fragment of a painting of the facade of the tower, which documents the contribution of Bishop Charles II. from Liechtenstein to the restoration of Kroměříž. The inscription CAROLVS VRBEM REPARARE STVDET (the city of Charles was carefully repaired) dates back to 1665. The gate got its current form in the second half of the 19th century, partly according to the design of the architect Antonín Arche (1793-1851). [2] It is the last preserved city gate in Kroměříž, the other two, Vodní and Kovářská, were demolished in the years 1855 to 1857. In addition to these three gates, there was also a Jewish gate (Judentor) or Hřebová branka or fortna to St. The trio that led from the "Jewish Quarter to Oskol to the Franciscans", but were "only for pedestrians, at most for the wheelbarrow." The Jewish quarter itself was separated from the Christian part of the city within the walls by a separation wall. Through the mill gate, the road to the malting suburb led to lordly buildings, especially to the bishop's mint, the manorial mill and the bishop's brewery. The gate was adjacent to the castle moat, was administered by the bishop and guarded by his guard. Under Archbishop Chotek, after 1832, the rampart was leveled and a moat was included between the chateau and the town with the excavation of a thick layer of embankment (see the side terrace of the Hejtman's House), the archbishop's guard building and the corridor from the chateau St. Mořice. When the Archbishop's Grammar School was expanded under Archbishop František Bauer at the beginning of the 20th century, a pedestrian passage was broken next to its own narrow gate.