Dammtor (Barth)

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Dammtor in Barth (east view)
Dam gate and tower of the St-Marien-Kirche, both 15th century. (West view)

The Dammtor was part of the medieval fortification of the city of Barth in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and secured access to the city to the west. The current building was probably built around 1425 and later changed several times. The five-storey brick building with an ogival passage is 35 meters high and has a four-meter-wide passage that formerly had an outside and an inside gate. A city gate at this point was mentioned in a document as early as 1357. In 2007 the gate was extensively renovated. The gate is the last of originally four city gates (the others were demolished in the second half of the 19th century). The masonry on the city side is significantly less developed than on the defensive outside facing away from the city. Here the masonry is over two meters thick.

The entrance to the tower (formerly via the city wall, later via the attic of an attached house) is about seven meters high.

The floor of the floor above the passage is barrel-shaped. In the middle of the vault there is a covered transport opening to the roadway. On the first floor there is the masonry up to about two meters high, which presumably comes from the older predecessor building from the 14th century.

The gate was only accessible via ladders that had to be pulled up from floor to floor.

The four eaves bay windows on the fourth floor originally had two windows and were intended as machicolations .

There is a protected jackdaw colony in the attic area . The birds are housed in numbered nest boxes. The roof truss inclined to the west is tree-like with an imperial stem end . The four bay windows in the attic are arranged diagonally.

The building is under monument protection and is registered under No. 105 in the monument protection list of the district of North Western Pomerania .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 18.9 ″  E