Maxtor (Nuremberg)

Maxtor, view from west-southwest

The Maxtor is a former city ​​gate through the Nuremberg city wall . Today the gate has completely disappeared and serves as one of the main traffic entrances to the northern old town of Nuremberg .

In 1848 the Maxtor was built by Bernhard Solger as a neo-Gothic gatehouse. The aim was to connect the Tetzelgasse in the south of Sebald's old town to the north of the town. The gate was named after the Bavarian King Maximilian II and in 1877 it was demolished together with the Frösturm due to the growing traffic and the moat was filled up. In the following time, the name "Maxvorstadt" was formed for the northern part of the city behind the Maxtor.

The section of the city wall between Maxtor and Laufer Tor is called Maxtormauer. Thereafter, the Maxtormauer street within the wall and the Maxtorgraben street outside were named.

Strictly speaking, the name “Maxtor” today only describes the gap in the city wall that extends to the west and east. The Seven Lines are to the south . To the east, at the northernmost point of the Maxtor Wall, is the Kübler Zwinger . It was built in 1527 as the second round bastion in Nuremberg and was initially called the "oven". In the eastern section there was a small police station until the 1960s .

Individual evidence

• Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).

1. ^ Helge Weingärtner: Maxtor . S. 681 .
2. ^ Helge Weingärtner: Round bastions . S. 917 .

Web links

• Ing-Büro Viezens, Eckental: Final report on the restoration of the Maxtor Wall (from 2005)

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '32 "  N , 11 ° 4' 57.9"  E