The younger of Freiburg’s two Medieval gates went up in the middle of the 13th century and is close to the oldest crossing on the Dreisam River.The tower is three storeys high and built from red sandstone.The staircase tower and half-timbered extensions are a little later, from the 16th century.On the town side you can see a Baroque painting from 1672 of a merchant.This soon became the subject of a legend about the city about a merchant who tried to buy Freiburg with sacks of what he thought was gold but had been replaced with sand and pebbles by his wife.Above the keystone on the city side of the arch is a Romanesque carving of Boy with Thorn, a motif that goes back to Ancient Greece.