Green Gate (Kneiphof)
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The Green Gate in Königsberg was a city gate in Königsberg i. Pr. It formed the southern entrance to the Kneiphöfischen Langgasse in Kneiphof .
construction
In popular parlance for a long time, the name Grünes Tor was first found by Hartknoch in 1764. The Langgasser Gate - mentioned as early as 1322 - was just a simple building, which was replaced in 1592 by the "wonderful Renaissance building by the master Wilhelm". It had a tall bell tower with an octagonal top. Wilhelm himself installed the tower button and the weather vane . The tower with inscriptions was later adorned with a clock, Kneiphof coat of arms, Prussian eagle and figures. An arched corridor led from the Green Gate to the round tower on the Great Ferry, which was filled in in 1885. The Königsberg town musicians lived in the Green Gate as in the other city gates and played at 10:00 a.m.
In 1851 the floor of the gate had to be dug two feet deep in order to transport the equestrian statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. to enable. After all, the gate had to give way to the growing traffic because there was no way around it. Although artists and the state curator Ferdinand von Quast protested, the gate was demolished in 1864.
Green bridge
The Green Bridge over the old Pregel to the Green Gate - also called Langgasser Bridge - was built in 1322. It burned down in 1582. The new building from 1590 could be cranked up by hand. It existed until 1907.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the 1930s or 1940s, the ferry across the end of the new Pregel still connected the southwest corner of the Kneiphof Island with the Old Town Lastadie .
- ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z. A city lexicon , 2nd edition. Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7612-0092-7
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p. 112