Herrieder Gate
The Herrieder Tor is a city gate and well-known monument of the Middle Franconian city of Ansbach . It is located on the south side of the old town and is named after the small town of Herrieden , about 10 km southwest of Ansbach .
history
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Original gate system
In addition to the Nürnberger Tor, Würzburger Tor, New Tor and Schlosstor, the Herrieder Tor is one of five former city gates. It contains the city's oldest fortifications that still exist today. The substructure dates from the 15th century. The predecessor of today's gate was first mentioned in 1374. The city wall then ran further north and the gate was roughly level with the former lion pharmacy. During the city expansion under Margrave Albrecht Achilles in the 15th century, the city wall and gate were moved south to their current location.
Baroque new building
A first elevation of the tower in an octagonal shape was carried out in 1684/85 by Georg Andreas Böckler under the government of Margrave Johann Friedrich . The gate tower in its current form was built in the years 1750/51 under the margrave's agricultural inspector Johann David Steingruber on behalf of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach . A baroque new building was built on the foundations of the previous building.
In 1987, the Ansbach Lions Club donated a carillon that was attached to the north side of the tower and since then has played the tune of the Hohenfriedberger March every day at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. , the text of which reads “Auf Ansbach-Dragoons! To Ansbach-Bayreuth! ”Begins.
Todays use
The tower building has housed the office and an exhibition room of the Kunstverein Ansbach e. V. and since 2008 the local group Ansbach of the Frankenbund, which holds lectures in the rooms of the tower and operates the Edmund Zöller archive for the collection and archiving of local historical written and image material.
The tower is open to visitors on the day of the open monument . As part of the “Green Night”, on the occasion of which many of Ansbach's landmarks and monuments are lavishly illuminated, a light installation will also take place at Herrieder Tor .
Building description
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The fact that the original gate must have been much lower can be seen from the north when looking at the remains of the battlements east of the gate. In addition to the square base and the inner pointed arch, this is still preserved.
The baroque octagonal tower is placed on top of the Gothic base structure, has a bellied hood with a lantern (so-called Welsche hood ) and four o'clock extensions, rusticated pilaster strips and a plaster structure, as well as a gate porch with triangular gable . The inscription plate above the archway on the north facade dates from 1684/85 and is a reminder of the construction work by Georg Andreas Böckler. The so-called Niefer coat of arms with the name "Johann Herman Niefer" can be found under this marble slab in the head strip. On the keystone of the archway is the Ansbach coat of arms, but without fish, as a relief.
The 47 meter high gate tower is laterally framed by two rounded corner pavilions. These are two-storey town houses with a mansard roof , pilaster strips and plaster structure, which were built under Leopoldo Retti and Johann David Steingruber in the years 1733/34.
The so-called Tulip Fountain is located on the southern gate forecourt, where the Promenade and Maximilianstrasse meet. The bronze fountain was built in 1979 based on a design by the sculptor Josef Gollwitzer. The design of the fountain in the form of a tulip blossom refers to the poet August Graf von Platen , who was born in Ansbach and is also known as "the tulip in the German poet's garden". The fountain received a new foundation in 2015 as part of renovation work.
See also
literature
- Hermann Dallhammer, Werner Bürger: Ansbach: history of a city . Hercynia, Ansbach 1993, ISBN 978-3-925063-35-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f Hermann Dallhammer, Werner Bürger: Ansbach: History of a city . Hercynia, Ansbach 1993, ISBN 978-3-925063-35-0 .
- ↑ a b Herrieder Tor ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the city of Ansbach. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Herrieder Tor ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: ansbachplus.de . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
- ↑ Frankenbund . In: ansbachplus.de . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
- ↑ Monument Day - Program Monument Day ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the city of Ansbach. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
- ↑ Green Night on Saturday, September 10, 2016 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: ansbachplus.de . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
- ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Baudenkmäler Ansbach . February 2017, p. 52 ( PDF [accessed February 9, 2017]).
- ↑ Tulip Fountain ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: ansbachplus.de . Retrieved February 9, 2017.
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 3.4 " N , 10 ° 34 ′ 17.2" E