Schei Gate

The Schei Gate is the newer of Brașov's southern gateways, built in the early nineteenth century in a classical triumphal-arch form to ease traffic between the walled town and the Romanian Schei quarter. Its three arched passages, one large and two small, replaced an older medieval gate that had become too narrow. Inscriptions in Latin, Romanian, and German mark the occasion of its construction under Habsburg rule. Standing beside the older Catherine's Gate, it completes the picture of how travellers once entered the Saxon citadel.