Stone gate (anklam)

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Museum in the stone gate
Steintor Anklam.JPG
Building view
Data
place Anklam
Art
regional history museum
opening 1989
operator
City of Anklam
management
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-890115

The stone gate is located in Anklam in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . Since 1989 it has housed the regional history museum in the Steintor .

history

The Anklamer Steintor is a city gate from the 13th century. The only preserved city gate of the Hanseatic city of Anklam is a landmark of the city. After extensive restoration, it has housed the regional history museum in the Steintor since 1989 . It is the highest city gate in Pomerania and has a stepped gable .

History of the building

The stone gate was originally built in an originally lower height that is still recognizable today, probably around 1250. In 1404 the stone gate was first mentioned in the city book. Either the gate got its name from the stone road it crossed, or it was the first stone city gate that gave the street its name. The representative brick Gothic building is 32 meters high and is the only one of the six city gates of the medieval fortifications that has been preserved. The holes in the upper area of ​​the gate indicate a battlement that enclosed the gate in the 16th century. This was probably removed around 1570 after the fortification was supplemented by a large front gate and a moat. The gate was used as a city prison until the end of the 19th century. In 1846 the other remaining city gate, the Stolper Tor, was demolished as a traffic barrier. The stone gate should also share this fate, but this was prevented by the objection of the then mayor. The last execution took place on today's museum forecourt in 1853.

Museum history

View from 1618 by Eilhard Lubin , on which there is also a bridge to the castle gate and the city fortifications with the gates can also be seen

The city has had a local museum since 1927, the oldest museum in the former Anklam and Ostvorpommern districts . Activities and efforts to found a local history museum, especially among the teachers of the municipal grammar school, go back to 1900. The actual foundation for the museum was laid in 1907 when the city's magistrate bought the historical collection of an Anklam banker. Further purchases by the city followed. Even then, the idea of ​​accommodating the museum in the stone gate emerged, but it was not possible until 1989. The museum's collection also suffered considerable damage during the Second World War . It was not until 1972 that the museum was given a building on Ellbogenstrasse again, which today houses the Otto Lilienthal Museum . In 1989 the museum was able to move into the reconstructed stone gate on the occasion of the city's 725th anniversary.

As early as 1925, a replica of a flying machine by Otto Lilienthal, who was born in Anklam, was purchased. The museum has been called the Otto Lilienthal Local History Museum since the 1970s . With the move to the Steintor, the spin-off of an independent Otto Lilienthal Museum and the separation of the collections were completed.

Collections

View of the exhibition in the museum

Permanent exhibition / special exhibitions

  • on 5 floors of the gate tower on the topics:
    • Prehistory and early history in the Peeneurstromtal
    • Slavs and Vikings on the Peene
    • Hanseatic League and the Middle Ages
    • City division: Anklam - border town between Sweden and Prussia
    • Anklam between 1933 and 1949
  • significant exhibits are:
  • In the gatekeeper house special exhibitions on changing topics are shown.

literature

  • Waltraud Gleffe, Bernd Lukasch : Museum in the Steintor, Otto Lilienthal Museum Anklam. In: Kleine Kunstführer Nr. 2210, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1995, IDN 010450432
  • History in the museum. In: Anklam. Settlement on the river. Exhibition catalog Museum im Steintor, Anklam 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027567-8 .
  • Günter Manthei: 90 years of Anklam local history museum. Treasures for the knowledge of the later born… . In. Die Pommersche Zeitung , volume 67, episode 32 of August 17, 2017, p. 2, fig.
  • Burkhard Kunkel: The beautiful Quilower woman and her sisters. Three unknown Madonnas of the late Middle Ages in the Steintormuseum Anklam, in: Anklamer Heimatkalender, Anklam 2006, pp. 40–43.

Web links

Commons : Steintor (Anklam)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 19 ″  N , 13 ° 41 ′ 30 ″  E