Lindau Gate

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Krugs Thor on the top left of the map from 1720 (north is on the right)
Inside of the Lindau Gate

The Lindauer Tor is a city gate in the Upper Swabian city ​​of Memmingen . It was also called the Krugstor .

location

The gate is on the west side of the old town, between the Westertor and the Kempter Tor . The Rote Kaserne is in the immediate vicinity ; The Black Barracks used to be there too

Appearance

West side of the Lindauer Tor

The gate was rebuilt as a gazebo after the Thirty Years War. On the west side it shows the Habsburg double-headed eagle, which holds a shield with the Memmingen city coat of arms in each paw. Above this is the Lindau city coat of arms. On the inside, the gate is painted with two lion heads, whose mouths form small oval windows. Between the lions' heads is the coat of arms of the city commandant Johann von Winterscheid with the year 1648 and an inscription in honor of Winterscheid. In the 18th century the gate got a baroque hipped roof. There is a historic customs house on the left before the entrance.

history

The western exit gate was built in 1371 as part of the second city expansion on the important trade route to Lindau in Lake Constance and to Switzerland. The high Gothic gate tower with its gable roof fell victim to the siege in 1647. Memmingen was besieged by imperial troops and Bavaria for nine weeks during the Thirty Years' War until the Swedish defenders capitulated. The gate was partially destroyed by the constant bombardment. The cannonball on the west side of the gate also dates from this time.

Today the gate serves as a group room for a group of the Fisherman's Day Association and for the Christian Scouting Cross Bearers (CPK), in the upstream customs house there is the group room of the DPSG Memmingen-Buxheim.

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer : City and district of Memmingen (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 4 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1959, ZDB -ID 256533-X , p. 31 .

Web links

Commons : Lindauer Tor (Memmingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in the form of the coat of arms of Emperor Maximilian I covered with a heart shield (split in Austria and Burgundy)
  2. ↑ cf. Jakob Friedrich Unold: History of the city of Memmingen. From the beginning of the city until the death of Maximilian Joseph I, King of Bavaria. Rehm, Memmingen 1826, p. 259 .
  3. ↑ Blazon: a green tree in silver, crest: silver-green flight with a silver shield with a gold star, helmet covers: white-silver. The coat of arms is not identical to the baronial coat of arms of the Winterscheidt zu Kirschhof awarded in 1656.
  4. ↑ Stamm Aragorn Memmingen , on cp-kreuztraeger.de, accessed on December 3, 2019
  5. ↑ Contact. Retrieved December 3, 2019 . , on buxheim.weebly.com

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '58.4 "  N , 10 ° 10' 44.5"  E