The City Gates of Deventer

The City Gates of Deventer were created after the growth and rise of Deventer as a city and the subsequent construction of the city walls. The first stone city walls were built during the 13th century and a surrounding wall was added from 1360 onwards. Deventer was therefore one of the few cities in the then Netherlands that had a double city wall. In total, Deventer had about 17 different city gates. Of all these gates, only one remains, the Buiten-Bergpoort, which is no longer in Deventer, but in the garden of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. As a result of the fact that Deventer had double city walls, many gates consisted of both an inner and outer gate. Deventer was a fortified city until 1874, the city gates that were still present at that time were demolished in the period that followed.