The original gate can be seen in Arnsberg and was erected in 1753.
Address: Wedinghausen Monastery, Klosterstraße 1-11, 59821 Arnsberg.
On their own initiative, the people of Hirschberg have rebuilt the hunting gate in approx. 70% of its original size for the 700th anniversary. The necessary iron gates were made free of charge by a former Hirschberg resident in a very artistic form and the construction itself took around 3 months of voluntary work and other material donations and was very inexpensive.
This replica now stands in Schlossstraße, in the Budde/Assmann-Arens courtyard entrance. With a deviation of a few meters, it is said to have been there from 1753 to 1826 as the entrance to Hirschberg's hunting lodge, which was demolished between 1802 and 1810.
The hunting gate depicts scenes of a par force hunt: on the left wing of the gate is a red deer being set upon by hunting dogs, rearing up and trying to shake off the pack; on the right is a boar in its death throes, fending off the dogs. The emblem on the left wing shows the initials C A for Clemens August. His coat of arms is depicted on the right wing.
