Neutor (Graz)

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Neutor

The Neutor was a historic city gate of the city of Graz . It stood from 1620 to 1883/84 in the former Kälbernen Viertel in the Innere Stadt district . Today's Neutorgasse is named after the gate.

History and design

In the course of the city's expansion towards the south-west, the Neutor was built around 1620. It included the calf quarter, which got its name from the slaughterhouse, in the city fortifications. Up until this point in time, the quarter lay outside the medieval city wall. The Neutor was at the crossing Kalcherberggasse / Neutorgasse . The originally small structure was subsequently expanded into a two-story and inhabited gatehouse with an almost square floor plan. The building was inhabited and housed a military guard post.

In 1780/90 the outside was given a classical facade with plait decoration. On the city side, the Neutor had three gate openings: the main gate with a rustikaportal, a smaller middle portal and a bricked-up stone portal. A special feature of the gate passage was the S-shaped curvature, which made it difficult to pass.

In the 19th century, the botanical garden of the nearby Joanneum was to the east of the complex , and to the west of it was the former Neutorbastei with the Merangarten and restaurant. Around 1860, the city and the country made the decision to expand the Joanneum with a new building and the construction of the state library. The gardens were sold, the Neutor demolished in 1883 and the Graz main post office as well as the new Joanneum and the Palace of Justice built.

literature

  • Robert Engele: A new gate for the Kälberne Viertel . From the series At that time in Graz in the Styrian edition of the Kleine Zeitung of November 13, 2011. pp. 34–35.
  • Karl A. Kubinzky, Astrid M. Wentner: Grazer street names. Origin and meaning . Leykam, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-7011-7336-2 , pp. 289 .
  • Ulrike Schuster: Lost Graz. A search for traces in the 19th and 20th centuries for demolished buildings and monuments in the Styrian capital . Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85437-119-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Engele: A new gate for the calf quarter . From the series At that time in Graz in the Styrian edition of the Kleine Zeitung of November 13, 2011. p. 34.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Schuster: Verlorenes Graz , p. 35.

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 5.1 "  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 14.4"  E