Holy Spirit Gate

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The Holy Spirit Gate
City side of the gate

The Holy Spirit Gate ( Brama Świętego Ducha in Polish ) is one of the Gdańsk water gates on the banks of the Motława ( German Mottlau ). It was named after the Heilig-Geist-Gasse, at the end of which it is located. The gate dates from the end of the 14th century and is one of the older water gates of the right town .

The building served military and economic purposes and there were storage rooms on the first floor. In front of the gate was the Heilige-Geist-Brücke , a landing stage that later became part of the Long Bridge . In the 16th century it lost its fortification character and was converted into apartments and workshops. Renovations in the nineteenth century resulted in the definitive loss of the historical form. In March 1945 the building was completely destroyed.

The gate was rebuilt from 1985 to 1987 as an office building for the state publishing agency. Architecturally it is based on the historical representations of the first water gates. The gate is a three-story building with seven window axes and a length of 26 meters and 7.5 meters wide. With a steep roof, it stands at the eaves of the Long Bridge. On the city and water side, it shows three dormers and is decorated with sgraffito friezes.

In the sequence of the gates on the Motława it stands between the Frauentor (Brama Mariacka) in the south and the crane gate (Żuraw) in the north.

A footbridge leads from the gate to the Speicherinsel . This was technically designed as a swing bridge and completed by the end of 2019.

The structural remains from the 14th and 17th centuries were entered under the number 319 on February 27, 1967 in the list of monuments of the Pomeranian Voivodeship .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Jolanta Barton Piórkowska: Długie Pobrzeże . In: Gedanopedia . (Polish, accessed February 8, 2020)
  2. ↑ woj. pomorskie - pow. miejski Gdańsk, GDAŃSK - m. . (PDF, Polish, accessed February 8, 2020) p. 15.

Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 59 ″  N , 18 ° 39 ′ 25 ″  E