The Türkentor (''Turks' Gate'') is a gatehouse in Munich. It is the only surviving part of the

Türkenkaserne The Türkenkaserne (or ''Neue Infanteriekaserne am Türkengraben und Prinz-Arnulf-Kaserne'') was a Bavarian Army barracks in the Maxvorstadt district of the German city of Munich. History Rejected plans Planning Construction 1826 to 1918 The ...

(''Turk's barracks''), built in 1826 for the

Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment The Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment (') was a household- lifeguard (bodyguard) regiment of the Bavarian kings from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until the fall of the Wittelsbach monarchy and the subsequent disbanding of the Bavaria ...

. The barracks and remaining gatehouse were named after the Türkenstraße on which they were located, which was in turn named after the Türkengraben channel dug along the Kurfürstenstraße by Turkish prisoners of war during the German states' 18th century wars with the Ottoman Empire to provide a waterway as part of the North Munich Canal System (''Nordmünchner Kanalsystem'') linking the

Munich Residenz The Residenz (, ''Residence'') in central Munich is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. The Residenz is the largest city palace in Germany and is today open to visitors for its architecture, room decorations, and displ ...

with the Schleissheim Palace. Between 2008 and 2010 the Türkentor was restored with 780,000 euro from the Stiftung

Pinakothek der Moderne The Pinakothek der Moderne (, '' Pinakothek of the Modern'') is a modern art museum, situated in central Munich's ''Kunstareal''. Locals sometimes refer to it as the ''Dritte'' ("third") ''Pinakothek'' after the Old and New. It is one of the world' ...

. It reopened in October 2010 and since then has housed the sculpture ''

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'' by the American artist Walter De Maria, which had been purchased by the Stiftung Brandhorst.

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Art in the Türkentor
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