Ober-Bessinger Gate

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Ober-Bessinger Pforte from the southwest

The Ober-Bessinger Pforte in Ober-Bessingen , a district of Lich in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ), is a gatehouse built in 1782 . It is one of the few gatehouses preserved in Hessian villages.

The building in the local street 35 (corridor 1, parcel 289) originally formed the end of the old main street running to the southeast. The gate could be closed at night. A previous building built in 1593, like most houses in Ober-Bessingen, succumbed to the flames in a fire at the Kirchweih festival in 1675. The bells and clockwork added shortly before in 1669 also fell victim to the flames. The gate was built in 1782 on the same site.

The formerly plastered half-timbered house is built symmetrically with structural framework and has six window axes with almost square windows on two and a half floors. A two-story passage cuts through the building under the two middle windows on the top floor. A two-storey roof turret with a square and an octagonal storey is crowned by a dome-like hood. The roof turret rests on a cantilevered hip roof. The tower had a clock on the outside.

The building served as a school house, town hall, official seat of the mayor and on the ground floor as a fire station and storage room for scouts. In 1988 a renovation took place, in 1995 the weather vane was renewed. A few years after the turn of the millennium, the last resident moved out of the house, and it has been empty ever since.

The gate has been completely renovated since April 11, 2017, the costs are estimated at EUR 800,000. Once the renovations have been completed, the gate will be used both as a pilgrims' hostel for Lutherweg 1521 and for a Red Cross Museum. The association "Pforte 1782 Ober-Bessingen" was founded in 2016 for the care and maintenance of the building.

The Ober-Bessinger Pforte has been designated as a Hessian cultural monument for historical, urban and artistic reasons .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 343.
  2. ↑ Ober-Bessingen - gate , giessener-land.de
  3. ^ Districts of Lich ( Memento from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), vogelsberg-touristik.de
  4. ↑ Ober-Bessingen , historical.info
  5. ↑ DRK Museum in Ober-Bessingen planned , Gießener Anzeiger, July 11, 2016
  6. ^ Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH & Co KG: "We don't need a lock here" . ( giessener-anzeiger.de [accessed October 4, 2017]).
  7. ↑ www.alsfelder-allgemeine.de - Your newspaper for Alsfeld and the surrounding area: Alsfelder Allgemeine Zeitung | Ober-Bessinger Pforte gets a new watch. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH & Co KG: Almost every tenth local is already a member . ( giessener-anzeiger.de [accessed October 4, 2017]).
  9. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 549.

literature

  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part . Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1933, p. 343
  • Patrick Dehnhardt: Endangered Landmark , Gießener Allgemeine, June 28, 2014, p. 38
  • Hans Kandel: Ober-Bessingen , Licher Heimatbuch, 1989, pp. 567-581

Web links

Commons : Ortsstraße 35 (Ober-Bessingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '22.13 "  N , 8 ° 54' 12.12"  E