Mainz Gate

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View from the field side, from the north
View from the east: right field side, left: city side
After the destruction in 1689

The Mainzer Pforte (also: Mainzer Tor ) was a city ​​gate in the outer wall of the city ​​fortifications of Worms .

Geographical location

The gate was in the north of the city. Here the trunk road from Strasbourg to Mainz led out of the city of Worms. It was a little north of the current intersection of Mainzer Strasse and Liebfrauenring / Pfortenring . In the inner ring of the wall , this road led towards Mainz through the Martinspforte .

designation

After the old Martin's gate of the inner wall ring was demolished in the 18th century, a customs gate was built at this point. This replacement building was also referred to as the “Mainzer Tor”, which must not lead to confusion.

history

The dating of the entire outer wall of Worms is very vague. It was built in the second half of the 1360s at the latest, but at least in the second third of the 14th century. The Mainzer Pforte was therefore also necessary.

At first it was a gate protected by two towers. In 1667 the largest and most imposing of all gate towers of the Worms city fortifications was built here with seven full storeys. In the direction of Mainz he showed two side turrets for decoration. A forecourt with a front gate, guard house, bastion, drawbridge and chapel was presented .

When Worms was destroyed in the course of the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689, the tower of the Mainzer Pforte was blown up and later not restored.

Aftermath

Western bridge tower of the Nibelungen Bridge : Free replica of the Mainz Gate

The gate tower, which was destroyed in 1689, became a model for the bridge tower on the left bank of the Rhine (still preserved today) shortly before the turn of the 20th century when the Ernst Ludwig Bridge was built over the Rhine .

literature

  • Walter Hotz: Defensive Worms. Art history of the city fortifications. 2) Late Gothic and Renaissance towers and gates . In: Wormser monthly mirror from June 1982, pp. 5-11. [quoted: Hotz, June 1982]

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Hotz, June 1982, p. 8, the Mainzer Pforte is said to have even been a model for both bridge towers. The eastern side on what is now the Hessian side was torn down after the Second World War .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Grün: The city wall of Worms . Stadtarchiv Worms , Worms 1998. ISBN 3-00-002765-3 , p. 18.
  2. ^ Fritz Reuter : Between reaction and Hessian urban order (1852–1874) , pp. 441–478. In: Gerold Bönnen (ed.): History of the city of Worms . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 , p. 441.
  3. ^ Mathilde Grünewald: Under the plaster of Worms. Archeology in the city . Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2012. ISBN 978-3-89870-754-1 , p. 104.
  4. ↑ Heribert Isele: The defense system of the city of Worms from the beginning to the end of the 18th century . Masch. Diss. Heidelberg [1951?], P. 128f, even if the author - who was also writing very positivistically - his result with regard to other authors and their assumption based on general considerations that the wall was built in the 13th century , put into perspective again.
  5. ^ Hotz, June 1982, p. 8, based on the engravings by Sebastian Münster : Cosmographey . Hencicpetrina, Basel 1572, pp. DCXCIII-DCXCVI. [Representation of Worms seen from the east, i.e. the Rhine, around 1550 (Eugen Kranzbühler: Disappeared Worms Buildings. Contributions to the building history and topography of the city . Kräuter'sche Buchhandlung, Worms 1905, panel in front of S. V and Worms City Archives: Abt . 217 No. 1478)] and Matthäus Merian : Topographia Palatinus Rheni et Vicinarum Regionum . Hoffmann, Frankfurt 1645, table between p. 96 and 97, as well as Worms City Archives: Dept. 217 No. 1495.
  6. ↑ Hotz, June 1982, p. 8; Walter Hotz: Defensive Worms. Art history of the city fortifications. 5) Destruction, Baroque Restoration, and Decline . In: Wormser monthly mirror from July 1982, pp. 19–24 (21).
  7. ^ Karl Heinz Armknecht: The Worms city walls . In: Der Wormsgau 9 (1970/1971), pp. 54-65 (63); Hotz, June 1982, p. 8.
  8. ^ Fritz Reuter: The leap into modernity: Das "Neue Worms" (1874-1914) , pp. 479-544. In: Gerold Bönnen (ed.): History of the city of Worms . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 , p. 520; Otfried Ehrismann: Worms and the 'Nibelungenlied' , p. 838. In: Gerold Bönnen (ed.): History of the city of Worms . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 , pp. 824-849.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '22.3 "  N , 8 ° 21' 53.5"  E