Georgstor

Location page

The Georgstor, also known as St. Georgs Porte , Obertor or outside gate , is located in Blankenheim , Euskirchen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Ahrstraße 22. It represents part of the extension of the valley fortifications from the 17th century. The rooms on the upper floor house the Blankenheim Carnival Museum.

history

Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid – Blankenheim (1630–1705) ordered the expansion and restoration of the fortifications in 1672. Associated with their execution was the inclusion of the extended valley location of the place, over which it should not extend significantly until the middle of the 20th century. Part of the extensions was the so-called “external” gate, the most remote one, which also represented the end to the west. According to Ernst Wackenroder , ground plans and elevations from 1670 are available for this gate system , but these were never implemented. In 1702 the gate is called St. Georgs Porte.

The Georgstor was registered on July 15 and October 31, 1988 as architectural monument No. 52 and 169 in part A of the list of monuments of the municipality of Blankenheim.

architecture

While the originally planned pilaster architecture (see drafts from 1670) was not implemented, there is a simple round arch on top of which a storey is placed, which on the local side was executed in half-timbering . The upper floor is accessed via a steep staircase on the north side of Ahrstrasse. The adjoining eastern part of the gate was also developed for residential purposes.

The round windows of the gatekeeper's room on the former side of the field, with four keystones , were walled up before the First World War and also in 1928 when Wackenroder traveled again, but are now open again. They frame a niche that houses a three-quarters life-size wooden figure of St. George . In his figurative representation he is trained as a rich knight in costume.

Todays use

Ghost crowd during the Blankenheim ghost procession in front of Georgstor

In 1986 the Georgstor was handed over to the carnivalists for use by the community . Since 1990, according to another source in 1988, the Blankenheim Carnival Museum opened.

In the small museum, the carnival traditions of the Eifel are presented, including the Blankenheim ghost train . Exhibits from several centuries, including documents, pictures, posters and costumes are presented to the visitor, who can visit the premises in consultation with the Carnival Association as part of a guided tour.

literature

Wolfgang Doppelfeld: Over 400 years of carnival. In: Gerd J. Nettersheim (ed.) On behalf of the Association Cartel Blankenheim e. V .: 900 years of Blankenheim. From the count's residence to the modern community. Self-published, Blankenheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049892-3 , pp. 226-237.
Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke , Ulrich Schäfer a. a .: Blankenheim. In: North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland. ( Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ) Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , p. 140.
Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district. (Ed.) In connection with Johannes Krudewig and Hans Wink (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 11, Dept. II), L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932 (Unchanged reprint Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3- 590-32116-4 ), pp. 85-86.

Web links

Commons : Georgstor (Blankenheim) - Collection of images

Carnival Association Blankenheim 1613 e. V. (elements of modern times - Carnival Museum in Georgstor)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district.
↑ The Carnival Museum in Georgstor ( Memento from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang Doppelfeld: Over 400 years of carnival. In: Gerd J. Nettersheim (ed.) On behalf of the Association Cartel Blankenheim e. V .: 900 years of Blankenheim. From the count's residence to the modern community. Self-published, Blankenheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049892-3 , pp. 226–237, here p. 237.

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[Wackenroder-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district.

[2] The Carnival Museum in Georgstor ( Memento from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[Doppelfeld237-3] Wolfgang Doppelfeld: Over 400 years of carnival. In: Gerd J. Nettersheim (ed.) On behalf of the Association Cartel Blankenheim e. V .: 900 years of Blankenheim. From the count's residence to the modern community. Self-published, Blankenheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049892-3 , pp. 226–237, here p. 237.