Bridge Gate (Schweinfurt)
The bridge gate was a double gate in Schweinfurt . It was the first of the five (outer) Schweinfurt city gates to be demolished in 1832/33.
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With a natural history museum and behind it the spinning mill with a small industrial museum ;
on the far left the Maxbrücke (former Dust Bridge)
The five Schweinfurt city gates, which were all demolished in the 19th century , were (from the south on the Main counterclockwise) Brückentor , Mühltor , Obertor , Spitaltor and Fischertor . The bridge gate was the southern entrance gate to the city (today's old town ). It was at the end of today's Brückenstrasse, the former Brückengasse , on the south-west corner of the Zurich district . Before Brückentor crossed the dust bridge the Main, instead of today's Maxbruecke .
description
A kennel lay between the two gate towers . In addition to the main exit of the bridge gate to the Dust Bridge, there were two secondary exits. The Zwinger had a gate to the east that led into a second, much larger Zwinger, which ran between the city wall and the old town district of Zurich . A short alley here still bears the name Zwinger today . In addition, there was the so-called Gerberstieglein , a gate with a staircase that allowed the 31 tanners at times to leave the city outside of the times when the gate was open.
Site of historical events
The kennel was the scene of two more important events. A religious assembly took place there in 1532, to which the Electors of Mainz and the Palatinate , the Elector Prince of Saxony and the Saxon court preacher Georg Spalatin also appeared. The outer bridge gate tower was demolished in 1832 and the inner one in 1833, which is why there are no photos of the bridge gate. The house between the towers, the Zwinger , gave way in 1853 to the extension of the Ludwigs-Westbahn from the Stadtbahnhof to Würzburg .
In addition, according to a copper engraving from the 19th century, the Zwinger was the founding place of the Imperial Leopoldinisch-Carolinisch German Academy of Natural Scientists , which was founded in Schweinfurt in 1652 and is now based in Halle (Saale) as the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and in 2008 the National Academy of Sciences became.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 37.3 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 12.8" E