Ellinger Gate

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Ellinger Tor, 2004

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

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

Commons : Ellinger Tor (Weißenburg in Bayern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Travel report Weissenburg
  3. ^ The Ellinger Tor on Weißenburg's website

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 57.7 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 17.7 ″  E