Kütertor (Lübeck)
The Kütertor was a city gate of the Lübeck city fortifications .
It was located below Fleischhauerstrasse and provided access to the slaughterhouses outside the city wall , which were built as stilt houses on the banks of the Wakenitz . The name of the gate was derived from the job title Küter ( butcher ).
The Kütertor, first mentioned in 1309 as porta Kuterum , was a small gate that did not serve as a passage for a road connection. Accordingly, it was not erected in a representative or complex manner in terms of fortification, but was built as a simple gate tower .
In 1853/54 the Kütertor was completely demolished.
photos
The Kütertor with the slaughterhouses on the left, shown on the Lübeck cityscape by Elias Diebel from 1552
The gatehouse of the Kütertor, drawn by Carl Julius Milde in 1838
literature
- Gustav Lindtke: Lübeck - Views from ancient times . Peters-Verlag 1959
- Rainer Andresen: Lübeck - history, churches, fortifications . Neue Rundschau publishing house, 1988
