Cellar gate
The cellar gate , named after the cellar street leading to the electoral wine cellar (today: Heilig-Geist-Straße), was one of a total of ten historic Potsdam city gates . Together with the remains of the city wall from 1722 in Grosse Fischerstrasse and the beginning of the city canal , the construction marked the city's eastern access to water.
After a wooden provisional solution, King Friedrich II had the cellar gate with bridge and canal rebuilt into a picturesque ensemble in 1788; the early Classicist guard and wheelhouse with its late Baroque decoration was built shortly after his death, presumably according to plans by Georg Christian Unger . The imposing cellar gate guard with its ten columns was designed as a point-de-vue of the line of sight from the bend in the main traffic route on the former Berlin bridge. The music pavilion of Madame du Barry in Louveciennes near Paris by Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1770/1771) probably served as a model .
Two grenadiers and a royal tax officer were stationed at the station, who levied excise duties (VAT) on goods imported by sea. After their abolition with the Stein-Hardenberg reforms , the Potsdam city gates were still used to collect meal and slaughter tax until 1909. After abandoning its use as a wheelhouse, the city maintained a kind of water freight yard at the cellar gate, and the gatekeeper house itself was rented to a forwarding company.
In 1945 a Russian grenade destroyed the station; the remaining portico was demolished around 1960 - like many war-damaged buildings in Frederick's Potsdam - on behalf of the city council. In 2015 the city sold the property to a private owner with the condition that the house be reconstructed true to scale and profile . Since its completion in 2017, it has now been used as a residential building. A small public park is located on the top of the cellar gate behind the guard house, the former urban port on the eastern side of the city canal .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Kania: Potsdamer Baukunst: A representation of your historical development. Potsdam 1923.
- ↑ a b c The return of the cellar gate guard . In: Märkische Allgemeine , June 19, 2017
- ↑ Topping- out ceremony for the cellar gate guard ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Märkische Allgemeine , November 4, 2015
- ^ Leaflet from the Geigenberger-Göpel family, May 2017.
- ↑ The city canal is a topic again . In: Potsdam Latest News , September 20, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 56.4 " N , 13 ° 4 ′ 13.9" E