Diezer Tor

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Diezer Tor (drawing by Ferdinand Luthmer )

The Diezer Tor was one of the city ​​gates of the central Hessian city ​​of Limburg an der Lahn . It was located at the current confluence between the Plötze and Grabenstrasse.

It was built together with the Limburg city wall, which was completed in 1232. The first documentary mention is for 1319. Its location is well known from a map from around 1830. In front of the gate was the Wilhelmitenkloster Limburg from 1317 , from the 14th century the Diezer suburb was built , which extended to the outer Diezer Tor, which was built in the Schiede in 1347 .

The total height of the tower with a base area of ​​six by nine meters was 22 meters, with the tent roof measuring six meters. The gate was four meters wide and four meters high at the top. While it was designed as a pointed arch on the outside , it probably had a round arch on the city side. The masonry above the gate is similar to that of Katzenturm and Huttig . The gate itself is built from large stone blocks with three steps and has some irregularities, which is probably due to extensive repairs or redesign.

In the summer of 1871 the Diezer Tor was pulled down despite protests from the Prussian monument authority. It was the last of numerous towers along the medieval city wall that were put down in the 19th century, as they were seen as "disruptive factors for the new traffic conditions and the spatial expansion of the cities". Only the Katzenturm, the outer bridge tower of the Alte Lahnbrücke and parts of the Löhrturm and the remains of the wall at Am Huttig are preserved from the city fortifications .

literature

  • Verena Fuchß: Cultural monuments in Hessen: City of Limburg. Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse . Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-2096-4 , pp. 33, 63.
  • Ernst Schirmacher: Limburg on the Lahn. Origin and development of the medieval city (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau . Volume XVI ). Self-published by the Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1963, DNB  454361696 , p. 57 f .

Web links

Commons : Diezer Tor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Verena Fuchß: cultural monuments in Hesse City Limburg. Stuttgart 2007, pp. 33, 63
  2. ↑ koe: Info: Das Diezer Tor  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Published on May 25, 2013 in the Frankfurter Neue Presse . Retrieved October 23, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  
  3. ^ A b Ernst Schirmacher: Limburg on the Lahn. Wiesbaden 1963, p. 57f.
  4. ^ Limburg - settlement development from the Middle Ages to 1873/74. Hessian city atlas. (Status: 2005). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 16.7 "  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 46.4"  E