Crown portings
The Kronenporte , formerly called Schönenbergertor, was part of the third right bank fortification of the city of Zurich. The fortification was built between 1642 and 1644 according to the plans of Hans Georg Werdmüller and city engineer Johann Ardüser . The Kronenporte should not be confused with the Kronentor at Hirschengraben , which was part of the second city fortifications from the 13th century.
history
The Kronenporte stood where the Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich is today.
The Kronenporte was built at the same time as the entrenchments in 1644 , when the eastern exit of the city was relocated to the height of today's Polyterrassen. It was one of the three main ports of the “Big City” and part of the Kronen-Schönenberg- Kurtine . A large part of the traffic to and from Winterthur and the county of Kyburg passed through them . Travelers from southern Germany also entered Zurich through the Kronenporte.
The Kronenporte was the official seat of the hill master. After 1806 this was the engineer and mathematician Johannes Feer (1763-1823), who had previously served as a building inspector in the service of Duke George I of Saxony-Meiningen . The porte together with the entrenchments and the other ports were demolished in 1836.
The institution for the blind and deaf and dumb was built in its place in 1838; the architect was Leonhard Zeugheer . In 1908, after the successful vote on the new university building, the city claimed the property for itself. As compensation, she built the current building in Zurich- Wollishofen by 1915 .
Detention center
To the south of the Kronenporte, at a distance of about 70 meters, was the "Citizens' Supply Institution", "Im Berg", which was used as a correctional institution for beggars and vagabonds as well as dissolute townspeople . The house later served as a detention center for the police and, most recently, as a district prison. It was demolished in 1912 when the new university building was being built.
Detention center around 1910
Representation on the Müller plan from 1793:
The Kronenporte (left) at the upper end of Halseisengasse
Crown porte and crown gate on the vedute of the city of Zurich by Johann Caspar Ulinger
Halseisengasse
The connection between the Kronenporte and the Kronen or Neumarktttor at Hirschengraben was formed at that time by the "Halseisengasse" (now the Künstlergasse). The street got its name from the neck iron that was attached there: It was the pillory of the canon monastery of the Grossmünster , which possessed and exercised criminal power.
literature
- Thomas Germann: Zurich in fast motion. Volume II. Werd Verlag , Zurich 2000.
- Zurich weekly chronicle. 31/1910.
- Zurich weekly chronicle. 13/1917, p. 111.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Johannes Feer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 3, 2005 , accessed June 28, 2019 .
- ^ Center for Hearing and Speech
- ^ Chronicle of the City of Zurich; Orell Füssli publishing house, 1900