New City Gate (Bergheim)

The new city gate by the artist Magdalena Jetelová is a four-meter-high, modern, solid wooden construction that is located at the end of the pedestrian zone in the district town of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft district .

The new city gate by the artist Magdalena Jetelová in Bergheim

Building history and architecture

With funds from the Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Köln , the district town of Bergheim acquired the large sculpture at the end of the pedestrian zone in 1994. The artist Magdalena Jetelová designed a massive wooden construction that not only takes up the motif of a gate in a modern, stylized form, but also creates a historical reference to the Cologne Gate . Just as the Cologne Gate on the Erft once marked the end of the city to the east, the four-meter-high wooden sculpture forms the eastern end of the pedestrian zone elsewhere. Magdalena Jetelova cut the four pillars of the gate from huge oak logs. They are set up in an acute-angled rhombus . Between the four columns there is a relief made by the Thorrer art caster Heinrich Waniek, which shows the floor plan of the walled city of Bergheim, cast in bronze .

literature

• Heinz Andermahr, Heinz Braschoß, Helmut Schrön, Ralph Jansen: Bergheim City Guide. District town Bergheim (Ed.), Bergheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-9801975-8-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bergheim City Guide - page 49

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 13 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 38"  E