Berger Gate

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Berger Tor, when demolished in 1895

The Berger Tor was a city ​​gate and part of the medieval and modern city ​​fortifications of Düsseldorf .

history

From 1394 to 1396, the Berger Gate with tower was built on Berger Strasse a little west of the confluence with Wallstrasse, expanded in 1449 and bricked up since 1585 for security reasons. The gate was provisionally opened for Jakobe von Baden to move in for their wedding. In 1609, Elector Johann Sigismund had the Brandenburg coat of arms affixed to the old Berger gate . In 1612 and 1614 floods and storms damaged the fortifications and the not unfinished citadel in the south of the city. Wolfgang Wilhelm called the builder Antonio Serro (called Kraus ) from Graubünden to Düsseldorf, who started work in Düsseldorf in 1620. The citadel was to be expanded and connected to the city with Citadellstrasse. The old Berger gate was demolished around 1620 after the fortifications were strengthened when the citadel was finished.

As a replacement, a new Berger Tor was built at the southern end of Citadellstrasse (the north-south main street of the citadel), the construction of which was well advanced by the end of 1620. From 1621 Adolf von Kamp worked as a builder, master bricklayer Rutger von Mehrheim carried out the work. Serro returned to Neuburg an der Donau in 1623 . At the instigation of Elector Karl Theodor , the gate was enlarged in 1751 by Major Engineer J. Hubert van Douwen. At the beginning of the “Prussian Era” around 1817, rooms in the gate were also used as a police prison for some time.

In an announcement by the district government in 1831, the Berger Tor was to be demolished in addition to the Rhine Gate as part of the filling in of the “Old Berger Harbor” and the redesign of this area of ​​the old town . While the Rheintor was actually being torn down at that time, this specification for the Berger Tor was not carried out and was postponed until later. It was not until the end of the 19th century that the Berger Tor at the end of Citadellstrasse was perceived as an obstacle to further expansion of the urban area. Against the will of the district president, the building was released for demolition and abandoned in 1895. Today markings in the pavement in front of the city ​​museum remind of the abandoned city gate.

description

The gate was a large, two-story brick building .

Facade to Berger Allee

The facade on Berger Allee was designed more simply and showed a strong structure. At the end of the arch there was a large coat of arms from the Bergisches Land .

  • Berger Tor, facade to Berger Allee.

  • Demolished in 1895

Facade to Bäckerstrasse

The facade, which faced Bäckerstraße, shows rich plastic ornaments made of sandstone above the passage , which were recovered after the gate was demolished. The plastic jewelry on the gate was created by Balthasar Späth . The facade showed a window framed by war trophies. The keystone above the passage was adorned with a lion's head and a helmeted warrior's head and was flanked on the side by trophies. Above the window there were spolia with the initials of Elector Karl Theodor and his wife.

  • Berger Tor, facade facing Bäckerstrasse.

  • Berger Tor, trophy

  • Berger Tor, trophy

  • Berger Tor, window framing

  • Berger Tor, arch stone

Web links

Commons : Berger Tor in Düsseldorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 84 f.
  • Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855–1914 , Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990. Plate 110
  • Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855–1914 , Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990. Plate 111
  • Theo Lücker: Düsseldorf - around Karlstadt . Verlag Goethe-Buchhandlung Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1990, pp. 117–120 [Das Berger Tor. It was demolished in 1895].

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bernd Heppe: The Düsseldorf cityscape I. 1585–1806. Düsseldorf 1983, (picture booklets of the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf No. 4) p. 4f
  2. ^ Karl Bernd Heppe: The Düsseldorf cityscape I. 1585–1806. Düsseldorf 1983, (picture books of the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf No. 4) p. 12f
  3. ^ Stahl, in: Wegweiser Düsseldorfs ... zur ... historical representation of Düsseldorf, section Public Buildings , 1817, publisher: Mindel, Carl Heinrich August, p. [16] 8. Online edition
  4. ↑ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf administrative region, in: Announcement of August 17, 1831 , 1831, No. 64, p. [404] 407. Online version
  5. ↑ View of the Berger Tor at the end of Citadellstrasse. On the left, houses No. 25 and 27. , photo by Julius Söhn , around 1890, Düsseldorf City Archives
  6. ↑ https://www.duesseldorf.de/stadtarchiv/stadtgeschichte/zeitzeile/zeitbrett-07-1880-bis-1900/1895.html

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 20 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 10 ″  E