after 1796 the town grew beyond the town wall. there had been a ban on building outside the wall before then. the neustadt ("newtown"), in the neighborhood of the nordertor was built. in 1913 and 1914 it was restored by the architect paul ziegler. the nordertor got a clock. in 1966 the deutsche bundespost made a stamp with a picture of the gate on it. it was a 30 pfennig stamp, used to send letters within germany. the nordertor stamps were sold over 3 billion times. in the 1990s the gate was again restored and the clock was removed. in 2004 the gate was licensed as a venue for civil weddings, so that the weddings could be performed since then directly above the archway of the gate.