Königstor (Nuremberg)

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The King's Gate, 1891

The Königstor was a gate through the Nuremberg city wall and is now one of the main entrances to the southern Nuremberg old town.

After the construction of the main train station in the southeast of the old town, an additional gate exit through the Nuremberg city wall was necessary in addition to the Frauentor . In 1849, between the Frauentorturm and the Salzstadel, on whose property the Künstlerhaus Nürnberg was built in the 1900s, a neo-Gothic gate was completed according to plans by Bernhard Solger and named after Königsstraße . The gate was soon no longer able to cope with the growing traffic and was demolished again in 1892.

The wall area between Marientor and Königstor is called the Königstormauer . After that, the Königstormauer lane within the city wall and the Königstorgraben main road outside , which opens into the station square, were named.

With the construction of the Hauptbahnhof underground station , the underground Königstorpassage with various shops was built between the distribution floor and Königsstraße .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiltrud Fischer-Pache, Helge Weingärtner: Königstor . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 553 ( complete edition online ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 52.5 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 53.4"  E