Abbey garden and city fortifications Mönchengladbach

Abbey garden and city fortifications

The abbey garden and city fortifications are in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The construction took place between 1300 and 1800. The complex was registered under No. A 046 on August 26, 1999 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

The entire system consists of the following components:

• Abbey garden with enclosing walls and towers,
• baroque fountain basin with faun mask,
• parts of the city wall adjoining the abbey garden in the west.

investment

The city ​​wall , built from field fire bricks , consists south of the minster and the Abteiberg museum from several mutually complementary wall sections of different ages. Behind the provost house on Abteistraße, a section of the wall that was abandoned in the course of the establishment of the abbey type and delimits the garden to the west is preserved at a height of about 2.5 to 3 m, which is broken through by two flights of stairs.

The northern breakthrough was created in 1974 to connect the minster, the southern flight of stairs has volute-like parapets . This section of the wall is almost completely overgrown with ivy , so that statements about the structural condition are hardly possible. The top of the wall is - like its eastern counterpart - secured with inclined bricks, the wall itself was subsequently stabilized with tapered pillars.

At the southern end, this wall coming from Abteistrasse merges into the so-called Wyenturm, a round tower with an outside diameter of around 6.1 m and an inside diameter of 4.1 m. To the west there is another, approximately 40 m long section of the wall with pillar reinforcements on the outside, which ends in the area of ​​the newly created garden access.

From the Wyenturm to the east, an approx. 3 m high section of the wall, swinging out to the south, was built after 1770 to mark the establishment of the abbey garden and ends at the Bornefeld tower. Arranged approximately in the middle is an approximately 4 m wide gate system formed by two pillars with a cross-shaped cross-section with a vase attachment on a profiled cover plate, the height of which is approximately 5.5 m. A wrought iron, two-winged gate closes the gate system to private garden properties. There is no longer a connection to a public route.

With a wall thickness of only 0.4 m, the Bornefeld Tower has an outside diameter of around 5 m. From here the wall moves almost northwards back to the Abteiberg Museum . It is broken by a passage from 1974 and 1998. When the upper part of the abbey garden was redesigned, the architect Hans Hollein integrated an old fountain basin carved from bluestone with a faunal mask into a newly created water basin.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
• Rüdiger Pongs: The Gladbach city fortifications . The defenses in Gladbach from the fortified Münsterberg to the fortification of the Thirty Years War. Ed .: Christian Wolfsberger. Klartext Medienwerkstatt GmbH, Essen, Mönchengladbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1101-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on January 21, 2015]).

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• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 31 ″  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 58.2 ″  E