The name recalls the Schottentor, a city gate named after the Schottenstift.
The gate in the city wall is recorded as ‘Porta Scotorum’ in 1276 and took its name from the nearby Schottenstift, the monastery of the ‘Scots’ – in fact Irish monks. Its last version, built in 1840 with five passages, was mocked as ‘Zu den fünf Torheiten’ – ‘the five follies’, a play on Tor, gate. When the city walls were demolished, it became redundant and was pulled down in 1862.