Brühltor (Hanover)

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Today the Marstalltor (center of the picture), dated 1714, marks the former location of the Brühltor ;
on the left the tower of the Kreuzkirche , on the right the armory as part of today's Historical Museum on the Hohe Ufer

As a city ​​gate, the Brühltor in Hanover was part of Hanover's medieval city ​​fortifications . It ensured the connection between the former Lehnshof settlement, from which the city of Hanover emerged, and Lauenrode Castle, which lies outside the settlement, as the nucleus of the later Calenberger Neustadt and its Brühl settlement to the north . The connection between the Brühltor and the castle was made by a bridge over the Leine . The location of the gate, which was the oldest exit from Hanover towards the west, is today marked by the Marstalltor on the streets Roßmühle at the corner of Am Hohen Ufer in Hanover's Mitte district .

history

The Brühltor was mentioned in a document as early as 1284 ("porta, quae ducit ab urbe ad oppidum") and in 1301 as "valva [gate] brulonis". In 1344 the passage was named "valva sancti Galli" after the nearby St. Gallenhof .

The Leintor , first mentioned in 1340, lost its significance for the Brühltor. It now formed the passage to the former Piperstraße , which was renamed in 1593 after the Roßmühle built here in 1546. Probably the construction of the armory between 1643 and 1649 finally led to the demolition of the Brühltor and turned Rossmühle street into a dead end.

See also

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : Die Kunstdenkmale der Stadt Hannover , Vol. 1, Booklet 2, Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hannover , Hannover, self-published by the provincial administration, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, pp. 52f., 396

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke : Brühltor. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 88; online through google books
  2. ↑ a b Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The fortification of the old town. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 51f .; as well as location map 1, center , p. 30f., as well as center in the addendum to vol. 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3ff.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '20.1 "  N , 9 ° 43' 52.8"  E