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No. 1: Gatehouse
No. 2: Gatehouse

The former Güstrower Torhäuser (Torhäuser Werderstraße) in Schwerin , Werdervorstadt district , Werderstraße 1 and 2, are architectural monuments in Schwerin .

history

The Schelfstadt, originally the Schelfe , since 1349 also Neustadt , developed from the 11th century as an independent place and from 1705 as a city and became a district of Schwerin in 1832. The Werdervorstadt was a field mark and was only sparsely developed in the 19th century.

Between 1840 and 1848 the gatehouses were built at the city entrances (Berlin, Güstrower, Lübecker, Wismarsche and Wittenburg city gates) to Schwerin in order to be able to raise an excise duty (internal duty or tax on consumer goods).

The two Güstrow gates on the road to Güstrow were built in the classicist style based on plans by court architect Georg Adolph Demmler . No. 1 is characterized by the portico and the round arches. No. 2, on the other hand, has the classicist angular windows and doors.

In 1871 the German Empire became a unified customs and trading area and the gates lost their importance. Both houses are now used by companies.

Gatehouses and Customs Houses

Former gatehouses and customs houses in Schwerin are still the Berlin gatehouses at Platz der Jugend 12 and 14 (Demmlerbauten), the field gate later the gatehouse or inn at the old cemetery ( Obotritenring 245/247) and the customs house Am Packhof 1a; also the customs house at Alte Crivitzer Landstrasse 27, which was converted into a residential building, and the gatehouse at Wittenburger Strasse 55 (Demmlerbau), which was heavily converted into a residential building .

literature

Web links

Commons : Werderstraße (Schwerin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sylvia Kuska: This is how Schwerin grew up.
  2. ^ Dehio : Mecklenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1980, p. 365
  3. ^ Margot Krempien: Schwerin castle builder GA Demmler 1804–1886. A biography. Demmler Verlag, Schwerin 1991, ISBN 3-910150-06-3

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 23.5 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 26.2"  E