Ellinger Gate
The Ellinger Tor is the most famous medieval city gate of the city fortifications of Weißenburg in Bavaria . The Ellinger Tor forms the northernmost part of the Weißenburg old town and has the address Ellinger Straße 12 . The building is registered in the Bavarian Monument List under monument number D-5-77-177-136. Of the gates of the imperial city of Weißenburg , only the Spitaltor, the steeple of today's hospital church , is present next to the Ellinger Tor .
history
The main tower dates from the 14th century and was extended around 1510 to include the forework and two smaller towers with curved domes . The top floor was added in 1662. The tower complex is adorned with three coats of arms: the first imperial city coat of arms from 1241 can be seen on the right tower, the left one shows the city coat of arms from 1481, which is still valid today , and the imperial coat of arms is visible in the middle . The moat was filled in up to sixty years ago, but now it is crossed by a stone bridge as it once was.
The tower has housed the historical council library of the city of Weißenburg since 1977 . The five-storey building is crowned by a dome .
The Ellinger Tor adorned the 80-Pfennig postage stamps of the series Deutsche Bauwerke from twelve centuries of the Deutsche Bundespost in 1964 and 1967 .
gallery
Men of Sorrows of the Ellinger Tor
The Ellinger Tor from the Rose Street seen from
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .
- Günther Jaumann: A journey of discovery through Weißenburg: Römer-Franken-Lebensart , Edition Limosa, 2011, p. 33, ISBN 3860374095
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Travel report Weissenburg
- ^ The Ellinger Tor on Weißenburg's website
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 57.7 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 17.7 ″ E