Exit at the Möllenvogtei

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City side
East Side

The exit at the Möllenvogtei is the only remaining medieval city ​​gate to the city of Magdeburg .

history

The now often only as a city gate , gate Möllen bailiwick or gate cathedral square one designated under monument protection standing goal in 1493, according to other sources until 1495, in the late Gothic period between the historic half-timbered house Remtergang 1 and the Old Möllen Bailiwick built as part of the medieval fortifications. Previously, the Hebbenstrid , a tower-like building with a gate passage, stood on the site , but was demolished in 1492. Located in the immediate vicinity of the choir of Magdeburg Cathedral in Magdeburg's old town, it served the archbishops and later the administrators as a connection between the cathedral square to the west and the bank of the Elbe east of the gate . In particular, this gave access to the archbishopric Elbe harbor, which was established in 1377, but was described as derelict as early as 1520. In addition, the gate led to a path that led outside the city fortifications along the Elbe and also to the Berge monastery to the south .

Due to the expansion of the city fortifications on the Elbe side in 1525, the gate lost its importance. It still served as access to the Möllenvogteigarten and was thus preserved over the centuries.

architecture

The gate leads as ogival passage through a partially plastered, from baking and rubble existing, about 7.0 meters high and 0.90 meters thick wall. The width of the passage is 3.50 meters, the top height 3.90 meters. South is a small, as the gate Stichbogen designed gate . Both passages are bordered with bricks. On the urban, i.e. western, side of the gate, diagonally seated panels in the form of coats of arms are inserted, which were originally designed with coats of arms. From the higher level on the city side, a ramp leads down to the gate. It is noticeable that the soffit of the gate does not run through the wall at a right angle, but runs at an oblique angle. The reason for this is probably that the road turned sharply to the southeast on the outside. Today the path instead leads sharply northeast to the Möllenvogteigarten.

literature

  • Heinz Gerling : Monuments of the City of Magdeburg , Helmuth-Block-Verlag, Magdeburg 1991, ISBN 3-910173-04-4 , page 108
  • Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Magdeburg , Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1991, ISBN 3-88132-190-X , page 112
  • Helmut Menzel: Der Fürstenwall , City Planning Office Magdeburg 2001, page 22
  • Sabine Ullrich in Magdeburg - architecture and urban development , Janos Stekovics publishing house , Halle an der Saale 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4 , page 56
  • Sabine Ullrich: The history of Magdeburger Domplatz , City Planning Office Magdeburg 2001, page 58
  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 166

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name exit at the Möllenvogtei to Helmut Asmus, 1200 years Magdeburg - The years 805 to 1631 , Scriptum Verlag Magdeburg GmbH Halberstadt 2000, ISBN 3-933046-15-7 , page 246 f.
  2. ↑ so in Ullrich, Geschichte des Domplatzes, page 58
  3. ↑ so on a sign attached by the Magdeburg Society from 1990 eV on site
  4. ↑ a b Menzel, Fürstenwall, page 22
  5. ^ Ullrich, History of the Domplatz, page 58
  6. ^ Hans-Joachim Krenzke, Magdeburg, Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus Fischerhude 1991, ISBN 3-88132-190-X , page 112

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 28.7 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 10.2"  E