The Rhine Gate (in German Rheintor) is a former city gate in the ancient city walls of Basel, Switzerland. It had been pulled down in 1839, about twenty years before three other gateways and the city walls were pulled down. The position of the Rhine Gate was at the Rhine bridge on the western river bord.
Coordinates: 47°33′35″N 7°35′19″E / 47.55972°N 7.58861°E / 47.55972; 7.58861
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“Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strauss waltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.”
—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)
“And we, barely recalled from sleep there, sense
Arrivals lowing in a doleful distance
Horny dilemmas at the gate once more.
Come and choose wrong, they cry, come and choose wrong....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)