Obertor (Düren)
The Obertor , first mentioned in 1317, was a city gate in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was located south of the city at the confluence of Oberstrasse with Bonner Strasse and was part of the city fortifications of Düren .
The tower gate had a half-timbered structure . The substructure was built at the end of the 14th century, the structure in the 15th and 16th. Century. In 1822 the gate was laid down.
literature
- Udo Mainzer : City gates in the Rhineland , published by the Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz , Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-88094-015-0 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 57.7 " N , 6 ° 29 ′ 5.2" E