Knee gate
The Kniepertor (also Knieper-Tor) is one of the ten former city gates of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund and named after a bourgeois family of the 13th century. The Kniepertor and the Kütertor are the only surviving city gates in Stralsund and are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Historic Old Towns of Stralsund and Wismar .
History and description
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It is one of the landward gates in the very north of the Stralsund city fortifications and was first mentioned in 1293, according to other sources in 1304.
The brick- built, tile-roofed gate is at the end of Knieperstrasse towards Olof-Palme-Platz . The gate tower has a width of 11.50 meters, a depth of 8.60 meters and is 20.80 meters high. It consists of a windowless, unplastered base floor, above which are two floors with vertical-format windows. The building is completed with a flat, pointed roof. In the 15th century, various changes were made to the exterior of the gate building. The actual gate is the bricked pointed arch with a passage width of about seven meters. The gate played an important role several times in the history of the city, when it was B. prevented Wallenstein from conquering Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War. After the Prussian victory on the occasion of the siege of Kolberg in 1807 , Napoléon's troops were only able to penetrate the interior through this city gate in 1809.
The Kniepertor is part of the remains of the city wall that have been preserved and is located in the core area of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Old Towns Stralsund and Wismar .
After the city fathers discussed the demolition of the gate building for a long time in the 1860s, it was decided in 1870 to only demolish the neighboring building complex so as not to obstruct the increasing traffic. The decision was implemented in 1874 with the demolition of the house at Knieperstrasse 14, the Knieper external gate and the gatekeeper house.
In 1967 the gate tower was converted for residential purposes. The Stralsund tram drove through the gate until it was closed in the 1960s . The passage has been reserved for pedestrians and cyclists since the late 1990s.
particularities
At the gate you can see brackets for the locking chains, with which the road could be protected from attackers when the gate was open.
On May 4, 1809, Ferdinand von Schill's comrade in arms , Friedrich Gustav von Petersson , was executed by the French occupiers in front of the gate . A memorial stone and a plaque on the side of the gate facing the city commemorate him .
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 3 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 23 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kniepertor at www.ostsee.de , accessed on October 24, 2018.
- ↑ Roughly measured door width from google.earth.
- ↑ City fortifications with Kniepertor and Kütertor at www.vorpommern.de; accessed on October 24, 2018.