Graacher gate
The Graacher Tor is the only surviving city gate in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Bernkastel-Kues . It has been used as a local museum since 1985.
history
The city gate was built around 1300 as one of the former eight passages of the city fortifications in the north of Bernkastel. It bears its name after the neighboring town of Graach , in the direction of which the street leading through the gate leads. The gate and the city wall were razed in 1689 by General Montalt, who served under Louis XIV of France .
At the beginning of the 18th century the city gate was rebuilt and made lower. In 1714 it was used as a prison. Then apartments and a homeless shelter were built inside.
In 1985 the Kolping Family decided to set up a local museum with cultural and historical exhibits in the Graacher Tor . The gate was last modified in 2002 when replicas of the wooden gates were used.
architecture
The Graacher Tor has a baroque overformed passage with a mansard roof that dates from the 1st half of the 18th century. Originally, the building was three times as high as there was a defensive tower above the archway, which can be seen on engravings from 1590 and has a helmet roof with corner towers. After the renovation at the beginning of the 18th century, a lower building with elements of the Renaissance style was built .
While the smooth, defensive structure of the gate is striking on the outside of the city, on the side facing the city the building shows a cozy-looking building with a hat-like slate cladding that adapts to the structure of the neighboring buildings.
The rectangular structure of the building is striking. The look of the ground floor is dominated by the massive arched form of the passage made of red rustic blocks. A figure of the city's patron saint, St. Michael, was placed in a central niche above the archway . This monitors both the input and the output. She is no longer the original figure, which is now in the Trier Diocesan Museum.
Web links
- To search for cultural assets: Graacher Tor in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 58 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 33.7" E