Side sectional gate as a courtyard gate? Isn't a swing gate better?

Hello everyone,

we have a fairly large courtyard in front of the house facing the street. If you enter the courtyard coming from the street, the garage is on the "right". The driveway to the courtyard takes up about 1/4 of the property frontage, the rest is a beautiful rubble stone wall that should be preserved. Actually, I didn’t want a courtyard gate, but thanks to a Hovawart who can press door handles as well as he demolishes dog food, and the wish for a property without further doors and gates, a courtyard gate is now to be installed after all.

The easiest solution now would be a "swing gate" (is that the correct term?), mounted on the "left" corner of the property and opening electrically. However, the courtyard slopes slightly up toward the garage, which would prevent a normal opening of such a gate. For garages there are side sectional doors, which are guided at the top and bottom. Is there something like that for courtyard gates as well? That would be ideal, because I could lead it "inward" along the property boundary.

I have now scraped together all my paint skills and drawn the whole thing - not to scale. Red would be a "swing gate", which is rather ruled out due to the slight incline in the courtyard, green would be the side sectional door, if such a thing exists.

I would also find a side sectional door very charming because depending on the "access wish" I could open it only about 1 meter wide. We already have all kinds of access control devices for the house anyway, so you could simply connect it to distinguish between pedestrian and car.

The gate would have to close a distance of almost 7 meters... is there something I have missed so far when googling?

How about an electric sliding gate? The height difference along the boundary should then not be a challenge.

You mean along the street side? Yes, that would be the absolute last resort. Then I would have to relocate the doorbell system, as it is on the mentioned wall, whereas the "opening" of the gate in "pedestrian mode" would then be on the other property boundary.

The garage looks in the drawing as if it is accessed not via the courtyard, but from the street (?) - but you also want to be able to drive into the courtyard (?)

Now the simplest solution would be a "swing gate" (is that what it's called?), to be mounted at the "left" corner of the property and opening electrically. However, the courtyard slopes slightly towards the garage, which would prevent a normal opening of such a gate.

The slope does not prevent a normal courtyard gate; this can be taken into account when mounting the hinges. For the pedestrian mode, I would make the gate double-winged, with a wing about 1 m wide on the side facing the garage. By the way, swing gates are something different: they were used at garages before sectional doors became fashionable.

Sorry, the garage door is on the long side, towards the street is only a wall. This is a garage with 2.5 parking spaces side by side. Therefore, I have to drive into the yard. As I said, nothing is to scale :)

The incline causes the swing gates to stick up when open. The neighbor has something like that and it really looks silly when it is open.

I am really starting to get fond of the sliding gate along the wall...

So I currently have one of those, there is actually nothing to get used to. I find it better both visually and practically than these swing gates. I did not understand the part with the pedestrian mode. You wouldn't want to open the gate just by ringing, would you? Most can have a programmed partial opening, but I would rather provide a normal entrance gate at the corner.