Ackerhof portal

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1893: View from the Ackerhof onto the Ackerhof portal (left view onto Langedammstrasse).
Around 1900: West, north and east side of the Ackerhof with Ackerhof 2 (left), portal (middle), entrance to Friesenstrasse (half right) and Ackerhof 1 building (right).
Around 1900: North and east side of the Ackerhof with portal (left) and entrance to Friesenstraße (half right) and Ackerhof 1 (right).

The Ackerhof portal , sometimes referred to as the castle portal at the Ackerhof , was located in the north-western area of ​​the Ackerhof , a square in the center of Braunschweig , until it was stored in 1971 .

The portal , modeled on a Roman triumphal arch , was designed by Wilhelm von Gebhardi in 1772 as the entrance to the palace garden of the " Gray Court ". Originally it stood on the north side of the palace garden and served as a connection with the Steinweg . Between 1791 and 1807 it was moved to the Ackerhof at the southern end of the park and was therefore only referred to as the “Ackerhof Portal” from then on. From then on it was the entrance to the ducal stables .

Due to the severe destruction in the Braunschweig city center during the Second World War , especially in the northern area of ​​the Ackerhof and the north side of Langedammstrasse, extensive construction work began in the early 1970s as part of the reconstruction of the castle ruins, which were demolished in 1960. Mainly because of the new construction of Georg-Eckert-Straße almost across the former castle grounds and the park, the portal was dismantled, cataloged and then stored in the municipal building yard in 1971. The wrought iron gate belonging to it, believed to have been lost since the post-war period , was salvaged from rubble and restored in 1985. The rebuilding of the portal has been discussed again and again since the beginning of the 1990s.

literature

  • City of Braunschweig, Elmar Arnhold, architects' office Schmidt S&P: Braunschweig - Ackerhof 2: Building historical investigation (excerpt), Braunschweig 2004
  • Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 1.1 .: City of Braunschweig , Part 1, Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-252-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Friends of Photography (ed.): Braunschweig's Bau-Denkmäler , explained by Constantin Uhde , Secret. Councilor and professor at the Herzogl. techn. University of Braunschweig, Series II, 2nd edition, Braunschweig 1895, sheet 54
  2. ↑ Dieter Diestelmann: Braunschweig - A lost cityscape , Gudensberg-Gleichen 1993, ISBN 3-86134-111-5 , p. 63
  3. ↑ Anke and Werner Wickboldt: Braunschweig - Photographs from yesterday and today , Gudensberg-Gleichen 2002, ISBN 3-8313-1144-7 , p. 47
  4. ↑ Rudolf Prescher : The red rooster over Braunschweig. Air raid protection measures and aerial warfare events in the city of Braunschweig 1927 to 1945 , Braunschweig 1955, p. 112
  5. ↑ Norman-Mathias Pingel, In: Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon - supplementary volume , Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 15
  6. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf : Ackerhof portal and the broken promise. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of June 24, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 43.6 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 43.1 ″  E