Kegeltor (Weimar)
The cone gate was the northeastern gate of the city wall of Weimar . From the late Middle Ages it consisted of the inner cone gate and the outer cone gate , both of which were located to the left of the Ilm, north of Hornstein Castle (today's Weimar City Palace ). The cone gates were demolished as part of the town's fortification in the second half of the 18th century. Since there was no longer any military necessity for a gate, but road and pavement money was still collected, an unpaved gatehouse was built to replace it in 1803 , probably according to plans by Heinrich Gentz on the right side of the Ilm directly at the cone bridge. This was demolished in 1964 after an accident with a truck , but the substructure of the building has been preserved to this day. The bridge itself also underwent changes, in which the semicircular icebreaker and the stone parapets , which practically functioned as exedra , had been removed from the bridge piers . A new bridge railing was therefore also installed.
history
The conical wooden palisades gave their names to the cone gate, the cone bridge and finally the cone square. The cone bridge used to be the city's only connection to the east. Originally it was built in wood. Destroyed by several floods of the Ilm , it was rebuilt as a stone arch bridge in 1749 after the Thuringian Flood of 1613. In 1803 Heinrich Gentz built a gatehouse on the cone bridge in Weimar, which was intended to collect road tolls. This stood there until 1963, when it had to be torn down as a result of a truck accident after it had survived the bridge itself having burst in 1945. The railing made of iron grating shows a bulge in the pedestrian area corresponding to the substructure, which is reminiscent of this building, so to speak, of which only the brick substructure on the arch of the bridge remains, which was the basement area of the house. A bike path meanders along this under the cone bridge, which at the same time connects the Ilm Park with the Tiefurt Castle and Park below the Webicht . Securing the remains of the building was very costly, especially since flood damage had occurred.
Similar buildings with this original function are still preserved in Weimar. These include u. a. which compared with the Liszt Weimar Gatehouse or preferred the Gatehouse at Frauenplan (actually already Wielandplatz) formed by the surrounding walls of the Ackerwand or the adjacent building in the building complex of Goethe-house has been integrated, or that also by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray designed Torhaus on Erfurter Straße at Sophienstiftsplatz was included. All of these gatehouses in Weimar were located on important arterial roads to or from the city. The cone gate was the one for the eastern area towards Jena .
This building with a square floor plan and a basement and an upper floor had arched windows and a flat tent roof. Since the walls were almost square, the house had a cube-like shape.
Aftermath
The street Über dem Kegeltor (formerly Hans-Wahl-Straße ) in Weimar is also reminiscent of this building. This also applies to the bowling alley .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Art. City gates , in: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 425.
- ↑ https://geo.viaregia.org/testbed/index.pl?rm=obj&objid=4654
- ↑ Hannolore Henze: Forays through old Weimar. with the collaboration of Ilse-Sybille Stapf. Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-86160-156-7 , p. 27 f.
- ↑ Rolf Haage: Weimar: a guide through the classic city. Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-829-4 , p. 148. (books.google.de)
- ↑ zeitsprung.animaux.de
- ↑ stadt.weimar.de
- ↑ weimar-lese.de
- ↑ Art. Kegelbrücke and Kegelplatz in: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 244. (books.google.de)