The gateway to city

The massive late Gothic house flanked the former "Sandtor" (sand gate), the entrance to the shipping pier and the crossing over the Danube. The adjacent semicircular "Mautturm" (toll tower) was also part of the city fortifications. Later, the collector of the salt toll sat there.

A commemorative plaque refers to two stanzas of the Nibelungenlied: The lord of the castle Astolt receives Kriemhild and her companions in "Medelick" and shows them the way to Mautern.

Opposite is the old shipmaster's house. On the facade are marks of the greatest floods.

Since 1210, the monastery annals and the market archives report more than 30 catastrophes. In August of 1501, the water rose about 11 meters above the bottom of the Danube banks. Even the parish church was flooded, the altarpieces were saved by ships.

In the 19th and 20th century, the "natural boarding station" for craftsmen on the "Walz" was located here.