The gate is a Schwedenschanze that if cracked open from the Vineyards south would let the attackers drop down several meters into certain death.
The Germans filled up the Burgraben to create parking and demolished the bridges leading through a tower island fortification north guiding the road around the once impressive build and over the new parking.
They all smile at me, if they know who I am and about Granddad who left Russian POW status early. No charges. Partisan, by the Allies. Well, actually he refused and rejected all German efforts of assimilation, like all of The Kingdom of Bavaria and Austria-Hungaria. Like Paulus, Rommel and The Sea Wulfs, by today all German loot, just like that castle, because that's what really happened. Grandad was an Angel in that Hell.
#theoceanoflies
That was in my lifetime and I was told the Gardens were build on a first filling when also the town wall was removed entirely giving false dates later. What I can't tell is how climate change creating heavy rains might impact the sand loads on a steep ancient fortress channel like installation in the long run. God might be a real nasty old testament asshole, maybe, or Germans actually bad engineers that not only fail to build solid bridges.
