Millerntor
The Millerntor (originally Mildradistor or Mildertor , later also Ellerntor or Altonaertor ) was the western part of the earlier Hamburg city gates . It pointed to the suburb of St. Pauli and the neighboring town of Altona / Elbe (today Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt ). The Reeperbahn leads from the Millerntor to the Altonaer Nobistor .
The first Millerntor was north of today's Rödingsmarkt , for example on the street “Graskeller”. In the 16th century it was moved to the northwest, near today's Ellerntorsbrücke . In 1621, as part of the construction of the ramparts for the Neustadt , the gate was moved further west to today's Millerntorplatz. The construction of this Millern gate was carried out between 1623 and 1627 by the Hamburg stone sculptor Zacharias Hübener († 1650).
In 1806 the gate was torn down under the French occupation and a new gate system was built by Carl Ludwig Wimmel in 1819–1820 . Wimmel's classicist new building consisted of two larger buildings and two smaller gatehouses, between which there were five four-meter-high stone posts and a metal fence. The fence gates were closed until 1860 when the gates were closed at night .
Today is known in Hamburg Millerntor the area around the Millerntorplatz. The term is also used as an acronym for the nearby Millerntor Stadium . For a while, Millerntor was also the name of today 's St. Pauli underground station , located below Millerntorplatz .
The old Millerntor on Neuer Wall (near Ellerntorsbrücke), lithograph by the Suhr brothers
The Millerntor from the city side
The (third) Millerntor around 1800
The (fourth) Millerntor after 1820, lithograph by the Suhr brothers
The original design of the underground station is based on the shape of the last gate.
Millerntorwache
Of the two guard houses from the 19th century, the northern one, the so-called Millerntorwache, has been preserved to this day. Since October 2013 it has housed the Museum of Hamburg History , a branch of the Museum of Hamburg History operated by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS . Using the oral history method, Hamburg residents can tell their personal story about Hamburg there. This is documented on site and then archived in the collection of the Hamburg Museum.
Since the house used to be so close to the street, it was damaged several times by vehicles. In 2004 it was therefore moved a few meters in the direction of the Hamburg Museum after repairs.
Individual evidence
- ^ Harry Schmidt: Zacharias Hübener in: Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Visual Artists , Volume 18, Leipzig 1925, p. 49.
- ↑ https://shmh.de/de/millerntorwache
Web links
- The Museum of Hamburg History on the website of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS
- The Millerntorwache on the Hamburg Museum website
- Filmed conversations from the Museum of Hamburg History
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 1 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 13 ″ E