Gögginger Tor
The Gögginger Tor (also written Göggingertor ) was a city gate of the outer city wall in the west of Augsburg city center. It was located on the site of today's Königsplatz on Göggingerwall and served as the exit to the city to the southwest, via Memmingen for long-distance traffic to Lake Constance , Switzerland and France . It is named after the village of Göggingen , located in this direction before Augsburg , which was elevated to a city in 1969 and is now an incorporated district of Augsburg.
history
The Gögginger Tor has been rebuilt and rebuilt several times in the course of history.
The first known gate building, initially kept simple, was built around the 12th century and completely rebuilt from 1320 to 1332. Master Hermann painted the Gögginger Gate in 1362. In 1368–1369 and 1388 the gate was expanded with a moat and bridge. In the middle of the 15th century a prison was attached and the tower was raised in 1443-1445. In 1447 the Gögginger Tor was repainted by Hans Mang and covered with glazed bricks in 1458. The tower was repainted in 1498 by Peter Apt . In 1544 the round bastion was first built , followed by the construction of the gate tower with a front gate by Martin Zwickel in 1581 .
The Augsburg city architect Elias Holl began building the bridge and extending the bastion in 1605. Presumably in 1622, after the tower was demolished, he also rebuilt the gate tower, almost a copy of the Red Gate that he had completed shortly before. During a bombardment during the War of the Spanish Succession , the gate was damaged in December 1703 and then restored. The bastion was demolished in 1704, but rebuilt in 1732.
Demolition of the Gögginger Tor
After the Augsburg main station was laid out west of the old town in the middle of the 19th century and the railway became more and more important, the desire arose to better connect the city with the station; At the same time, they wanted to tear off the medieval city fortifications, which were perceived as restrictive. In March 1860 King Maximilian II gave his place after years of insistence on the part of the Fuggerstadt residents. The “immediate installation of the fortress structures at Gögginger Tor” was the first to be permitted.
The earth bastion was removed from the autumn of 1860 and the moat was filled in at this point. In January 1861 the concession was made to grind ramparts, ditches and city walls on both sides of the Gögginger Tor to a length of 500 paces. In June 1862 the gate tower fell. On January 12, 1866, King Ludwig II finally lifted Augsburg's status as a fortress. As a thank you for the permission to demolish the city fortifications, the Augsburgers gave the newly created area (previously called “Gögginger-Tor-Platz”) the name “ Königsplatz ” on July 17, 1869 .
After the demolition
The Bürgermeister-Fischer-Strasse, which connects the former location of the Gögginger Tor on Königsplatz with Moritzplatz , did not exist in the 19th century. Its construction, which triggered the demolition of 30 houses, was decided in 1903 and the new road was broken through in 1906. The left side of the Bürgermeister-Fischer-Straße as seen from the Königsplatz is flanked by the five-storey Riegele block built by Hans Schnell between 1912 and 1915 , the former brewery and restaurant of the Riegele brewery . Across from it, the five- story Königsbau was built by Walter Krauss and Hermann Dürre , which houses a department store. Both buildings are now a listed building . Above the entrance door to the address Bürgermeister-Fischer-Straße 9–11, a stone relief plate was set in, reminding of the demolished Gögginger Tor.
From 1905 a tram triangle was built on the site of the former Gögginger Tor , in the middle of which a round pavilion was built in the middle of 1914, which was known as the “mushroom” because of its shape. It was used to sell tickets and as a bus shelter.
1976–1977 the tram triangle was relocated to the south side of the Königsplatz and the "mushroom" was torn down. The Manzù fountain was erected in its place in 1985 for the 2000th anniversary of the city of Augsburg .
literature
- Hermann Kießling: towers - gates - bastions . Brigitte Settele Verlag, Augsburg 1987, p. 49 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Kießling: Towers - Gates - Bastions . Brigitte Settele Verlag, Augsburg 1987, p. 40 .
- ^ "Augsburger Allgemeine" of March 23, 2006: Instead of a bastion, a "Königsplatz" .
- ↑ See measuring table map of Augsburg southern part 1: 5000 from 1816, Bürgermeister-Fischer-Straße sketched over it in pencil
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '58.8 " N , 10 ° 53' 40.9" E