The Sendlinger Tor - Access Munich

The Sendlinger Tor and the shopping street — Photograph by Flocci Nivis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

One of three surviving medieval gates, free to walk through, and the marker for where the old city ended.

What it costs

Free. It spans a public street and you walk through the arch.

The Isartor and the Karlstor are the other two surviving gates. The Isartor houses a small ticketed museum of the comedian Karl Valentin, which is one of the odder small museums in Germany.

The Sendlinger Tor and its square — Photograph by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

When to go

Always. The square around it was reworked recently and is now a proper public space rather than a traffic island.

Getting there

U-Bahn U1, U2, U3, U6, U7 or U8 to Sendlinger Tor.

Through the arch of the Sendlinger Tor — Photograph by Andreas Steinhoff, Wikimedia Commons, Attribution

If you only have an hour

Walk through the gate and up Sendlinger Straße towards Marienplatz, stopping at the Asamkirche on the way. That is a fifteen-minute walk that contains the single most surprising interior in the city.

What people get wrong

Munich had a full ring of walls and these three gates are what remain of them. Sendlinger Straße, running from the gate towards Marienplatz, is the old road into the city — and the Asamkirche is on it, a few doors along and easy to walk straight past.

The Sendlinger Tor during works — Photograph by Flocci Nivis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Nearby

The AsamkircheSendlinger Straße, Altstadt MarienplatzThe centre, Altstadt The ViktualienmarktBehind Marienplatz The FrauenkircheFrauenplatz, Altstadt

Ticketing arrangements and opening patterns as published for 2026 and checked on 4 September 2026. These change without much warning — confirm with the site itself before you travel. More sights, and how they fit together, in Landmarks & Sights.