Gate of the Mother of God

Brána Matky Boží vznikla v době výstavby města a hradebního systému ve 13. století. V průběhu věků a po požáru prošla úpravami. Dnes má renesanční nástavbu a s ní celkovou výšku 24 metrů.

It is open to the public as an observation tower. Inside there is an exhibition of reproductions of paintings by the academic painter Gustav Krum "From the history of Jihlava". These are 25 colour tempera and watercolour sheets documenting the most important historical events of the city. The originals are on display in the representative Mayor's Lounge of the Jihlava City Hall.

The Jihlava Fortress is another permanent exhibition of the gate and focuses on the origin and development of fortifications in Jihlava. It includes information panels, a model of the city from the 15th century, reproductions of vedutas, maps, city plans and aerial photographs of the centre. Visitors will learn about the detailed description of the creation of fortifications in the 13th century, the most massive development in the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as the demolition of the main parts of the fortification system (city gates) and entire strips of walls in the 20th century. There are also details of the history of the preserved Gate of the Mother of God.

There is also a fresco from the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary from 1402, which depicts the historical event of the town's siege, and other exhibits that introduce the visitor to the appearance of Jihlava over the centuries, such as vedutas from the journeymen's teaching certificates or plans of the town and its surroundings from the seventeenth century. There is a regulation plan from 1940 or aerial photographs of the city from 1948 and 1993.

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