This is Trier's Porta Nigra (or "Black Gate") It dates back to 160 AD and is a remnant of the large Roman wall that encircled the city. Most of the wall was torn down and its elements used to build other things, but the Porta Nigra survived because a monk named Simeon walled himself into one of the towers from 1028 until he died about 6-7 years later. And they sainted him, although whether it was for walling himself up in a brick tower I'm not sure. 
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