Town Fortification Dinkelsbühl-Segringer Gate

The city fortifications of Dinkelsbühl are a completely preserved ring wall with a length of 2.5 km, 4 large gates, and 16 towers.

The first almost circular fortification from the early 13th century is still visible in today's street layout, but only remains are preserved near the Wörnitztor. From 1372, in connection with an expansion of the city area, the new construction of the fortification ring began, which still exists almost unchanged today. The work continued until the Thirty Years' War with a total of 55 towers and gates. It is a closed ring wall with four inner city gates, four outer city gates that have since disappeared, once 22 individually designed watchtowers, 18 Zwinger stands and bastions of the inner city wall, further ones on the outer city wall, as well as a moat and a lined rampart. Unique is the Stadtmühle Dinkelsbühl, integrated into the fortification as a defensive mill.

The city wall consists of continuous masonry of quarry stones 5 to 6 m high up to the height of the battlements of the wall walk after 1372, with the wall walk largely removed and covered with plain tiles in the early 19th century. On both sides of the Wörnitztor, the city wall features Romanesque bossage around 1230. The city wall is equipped with loopholes, covered battlements, and keyhole embrasures. The Zwinger system is preserved; in the western section, no Zwinger was built due to the moats and mill canals.