Obertor (Mayen)
The Obertor is one of two preserved city gates of Mayen . It belongs to the protected monument zone city fortifications .
location
The Obertor is located at the confluence of the street Am Obertor in the city ring at the corner of Habsburgring / Boemundring. Next to the Obertor is the Theodore Dreiser House , named after the American writer Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), son of an emigrant from Mayen . Today the city library is housed here.
history
The approximately 34 meter high, five-storey upper gate is one of the four city gates of the old town fortifications of Mayens, built between 1299 and 1354 . The basement of the upper gate dates from the reign of Archbishop and Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg , the increase took place later and the expansion in the 15th century.
Stone formats and corner cuboid design reveal different construction periods of the gate. The bypassing of the battlements of the city wall around the gate was built later. It is not known whether coats of arms or patrons were depicted in the pointed arch niches above the gate . The basement is likely to have been built at the beginning of the 14th century, the elevation with the protruding corner turrets at the end of the 15th century. The old path from the Eifel into the city led through the gate and along the northern city wall to the bridge gate.
source
- Jonas Breithaupt: Obertor Mayen . In KuLaDig.de . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 40.8 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 7.3 ″ E