Marientor (Nuremberg)

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Marientorzwinger

The Marientor was a gate through the Nuremberg city wall and is now one of the main entrances to Nuremberg's eastern old town.

In order to connect the first planned city expansion of Nuremberg, the Marienvorstadt in the southeast of the old town, a new city gate was built through the city wall in 1859 according to plans by Bernhard Solger in the neo-Gothic style and named after the wife of the Bavarian King Maximilian II .

A beer garden - originally only managed in summer - was set up on the neighboring kennel, which used to be called Schellhorn , Horn or Kißkaltzwinger after the innkeepers and is still in operation today as the Marientorzwinger . In 1913 Heinrich Wallraff and Otto Seegy expanded the kennel for gastronomic purposes.

The gate was soon unable to cope with the growing traffic and was demolished again in 1891.

The wall area between Pegnitz and Marientor is called the Marientor Wall . After that, lying within the city Mauergasse were Marientormauer which lies outside the city walls alley Marientorzwinger and outlying main road Marientorgraben named. To the north of the gate, parts of the old Marientor wall were exposed during the construction of an underground car park on the Gewerbemuseumsplatz. To the south of the Marientor, part of the city wall was torn down for the construction of the art gallery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Beer: Kennel economies . S. 1221 .
  2. ^ Helge Weingärtner: Marientor . S. 670 .
  • Other sources
  1. ↑ http://www.baukunst-nuernberg.de/epoche.php?epoche=Gotik&objekt=Letzt_Stadtbefestigung

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