Crooked gate
The Krumme Tor is a gate of the listed Domburg in the city of Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It spans Domstrasse in Merseburg and is located a little west of Merseburg Cathedral .
Architecture and history
The Krumme Tor belonged to the outermost of three wall rings of the Domburg. The weir system was built in the High Middle Ages . Around 1430 the original Krumme Tor, consisting of a round gate tower and the actual gate system, was renewed. In 1822 the gate system was torn down, but then in 1888 it was rebuilt in a modified, romanticized form. The original tower was preserved. The original design of the top of the tower, without battlements, can be seen on the exposed north side.
In 2006 the gate tower was expanded for private residential use.
literature
- Falko Grubitzsch, Marina Meincke-Floßfeder: List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 6.1, Merseburg-Querfurt district (I), Merseburg district. fly head publisher Halle, 2000, ISBN 3-910147-66-6 , page 107.
- Peter Ramm / Hans-Joachim Krause, Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony-Anhalt II: Dessau and Halle administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , page 535.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 29 " N , 11 ° 59 ′ 58.6" E