Inner Paulustor (Graz)
The Innere Paulustor is a historic city gate of the city of Graz . It stood from 1355 to 1846 in Sporgasse in the Innere Stadt district .
History and design
The so-called Innere Paulustor was first mentioned in a document in 1355. It was part of the medieval city fortifications. Its former location is the present-day space between the Palais Saurau and the inn to the golden pate. It was named after the earlier, nearby Pauluskirche, which is known today as the staircase church . The so-called Strata hungarica , an important trade route into the Pannonian region , ran through the building during its existence . The fortress was given the nickname "Inner Paulustor" in the course of the fortification expansion in the late Renaissance, when the Outer Paulustor , which still exists today , was completed in 1614. The expansion of the fortress belt had become necessary due to a strong increase in population. The resulting area was called "Neustadt".
The inner Paulustor had several storeys, a corridor above the archway led to the Schlossberg as part of the city wall. This came from the reign of Emperor Friedrich III. Archduke Karl had the corridor roofed in 1590. The brickwork on the inside was adorned with a fresco showing Jesus Christ carrying the cross. Due to the loss of its protective function as a city gate, the Inner Paulustor increasingly fell into disrepair. In 1846 the building was demolished.
literature
- Robert Engele: Once you got to old Graz through eleven gates . From the series At that time in Graz in the Styrian edition of the Kleine Zeitung of October 16, 2011. pp. 34–35.
- Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Robert Engele: Once you got to old Graz through eleven gates . From the series At that time in Graz in the Styrian edition of the Kleine Zeitung of October 16, 2011. P. 34f.
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 23.4 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 22.7" E