Kölntor (Düren)
The Kölntor , first mentioned in 1361, was a city gate in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was located on Kölnstraße at about the same level as the confluence with Schützenstraße in front of today's post office. From here the Heerstrasse led to Cologne .
The tower gate was two-story and had pointed arch portals. It belonged to the city fortifications of Düren . After the destruction in 1543, the Kölntor was completely rebuilt in 1558 and October 1586. After the medieval Kölntor was closed in 1817, the manufacturer Edmund Hoesch built a residential building with a gate passage, the so-called younger Kölntor. This was of course just as obstructive to the expansion of the city as the old gate. A legal dispute between the city and the owner Edmund Hoesch over the purchase and demolition lasted decades before an agreement could be reached. On July 9, 1884, the younger Kölntor was closed and the way to the east was cleared.
literature
- Udo Mainzer : City gates in the Rhineland , published by the Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz , Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-88094-015-0 .
- Timeline of the history of Düren 747–1997, publisher: Dürener Geschichtsverein e. V. Düren 1998, ISSN 0343-2971 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 11.5 " N , 6 ° 29 ′ 11.4" E