Luisentor

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Field side of the Luisentore
City side

The Luisentor , known as the Kuhtor until 1821 , is Demmin's only surviving city gate . It was the tallest gate building of the Demmin city fortifications and at the same time the most important, as it served to secure the east side of the city, which was not protected by natural obstacles. Most of the attacks on Demmin took place on this side. With a height of 31 meters, it is the second highest city gate in Pomerania after the Anklamer Steintor .

history

The exact time when the cow gate was built is not known. It is certain that it was built together with the city wall in the 13th century. The gate was given its 21st century appearance in the 14th and 15th centuries. Farmers drove their cows out through the gate into the surrounding meadows in the morning and back into town in the evening. The gate was locked from sunset to sunrise. After Demmin was de-fortified, the Kuhtor served as the city prison and home of the prison guard from 1768 to 1895.

After Wilhelmine Luise, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg , wife of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig of Prussia , stayed with her son Alexander on the trip to Putbus in Kuhstraße on July 5, 1821, the city council named the street and the gate on theirs Name around. The princess thanked them in a letter dated August 3, 1821. Customs were levied at the gate until 1844.

From 1952 to 2002 there was a youth hostel in the Luisentor . After renovation work , it has served as the guest house of the Hanseatic city of Demmin since May 7, 2008 .

Building

While the ground floor was built from machined granite boulders , the upper floors are made of brickwork . The first floor is decorated on the city side with three-part panels with three rosettes in the top of the arch . On the second floor you can see the holes for the fortification of a battlement , which was no longer there at the beginning of the 16th century, as the view of Demmin on the Lubin map shows. The steep gable roof is bordered by staggered gables decorated with blinds .

literature

  • Karl Goetze: History of the city of Demmin edited on the basis of the Demmin Council Archives, the Stollesche Chronik and other sources . Demmin 1903, reprint 1997, ISBN 3-89557-077-X
  • Wolfgang Fuhrmann: The Hanseatic City of Demmin in old and new views . GEROS Verlag Neubrandenburg 1998, ISBN 3-935721-00-5
  • Hanseatic City of Demmin: Stadtwanderwege , 2008, p. 28

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldemar Dietrich: Ask me about Pomerania. Gerhard Rautenberg, 2nd edition, Leer 1988, p. 218
  2. ↑ Hanseatic City of Demmin The Mayor (Ed.): Citizen brochure Demmin . 1st edition. Linus Wittich KG, Sietow 2012, p. 28 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '24.7 "  N , 13 ° 2' 17.6"  E