Ostentor

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The Ostentor, built from 1284 on the eastern edge of today's old town of Regensburg, was one of six gate towers of the former city ​​fortifications and was built to protect what was then known as the "Ostenvorstadt". The gate was built above the arterial road leading east to Vienna and was thus the city gate through which the respective emperor from Vienna entered the city. The representative gothic , five-storey building was erected by members of the Regensburg Dombauhütte according to the stonemason's marks found and is one of the best preserved gothic city ​​gates in Germany today .

Ostentor, east side
Cross-vaulted gate hall
Ostentor, west side

The square tower, whose original flat roof, reinforced with battlements, was not given today's tent roof until 1383, is flanked on both sides by two octagonal towers on the east side. On both sides, pointed arches open up the gateway, which leads through a gate hall with a rib cross yoke. On both sides of the gate hall there are wall slits in which the portcullis can be lowered with chains from the first floor of the tower. On the east side of the tower - the enemy side - there are porches resting on corbels on the second floor above the gate opening, which served as cast bay windows . Loopholes and small pointed arch windows with tracery can be seen on the upper floors .

The east gate was included in the course of the city wall with its battlements, as a door on the south side on the 1st floor makes clear. On the eastern side of the enemy, the Ostentor was preceded by an armory with a tower and an adjoining kennel wall . There the bridge led over the city ​​moat , which still runs from the later built neo-Gothic gatekeeper house to the north towards the Danube. To the east, adjacent to the Ostentor and the city moat, the Eastern Bastion was built in 1529/30 , a raised earthfill surrounded by walls and towers for the installation of guns. Today the municipal villa park is located on the former bastion site, which was laid out east of the moat after 1667, after the completion of the royal villa .

During the Thirty Years' War , when Regensburg threatened to be conquered by the Swedes in 1633 , the Ostentor was additionally protected by a horn work that was built in front of the city wall and moat.

Ostentorturm with east bastion 1630

When the Swedes besieged Regensburg in November 1633 during the Thirty Years War and conquered it on November 15, there was already an assault on the Ostentor on November 8, during which a division under Lieutenant Colonel Nordhausen had occupied the drawbridge of the gate and only through one Gate was prevented from entering the city. The attack in which Nordhausen was killed failed because of a lack of powder. His body fell into the hands of the Bavarian occupation forces and was handed over to the city's ministry. His burial took place in the envoys cemetery and was the first of several burials of high officers that took place there. The tomb has not been preserved.

Gate guard house north-east in front of the Ostentor

The medieval gate guard house on the north side in front of the Ostentor was replaced by a new building in the neo-Gothic style in 1840, 15 years before the construction of the royal villa to the north . The building is one of the few neo-Gothic architectural monuments in Regensburg and is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Regensburg

Ostentor with tram

From 1903 to 1915 line 3 of the Regensburg tram ran to the Ostentor and crossed the gate from 1915 to 1955 on the way to the last stop at Schlachthof. This line opened up after 1850, the east of Ostentors outside Old newly formed East neighborhood with industrial area and port. When the access road was expanded to include multiple lanes after the tram was closed after 1960, the road ended in front of the narrow Ostentor, but plans had been in place since 1963 to circumvent the gate at the expense of the surrounding green spaces. All plans, according to which the Ostentor should be demolished or bypassed in favor of a car-friendly development of the old town of Regensburg, were given up after 1980. In 2007 the Ostentor was extensively renovated inside and on the facade with the support of the Free State of Bavaria.

Web links

Commons : Ostentor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg, Art, Culture and Everyday History, p. 537 f MZ-Buchverlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4
  2. ^ Monument profile Villapark, City of Regensburg, Office for Archives and Monument Preservation, status 2009
  3. ↑ Peter Engerisser, Pavel Hrncirik: Nördlingen 1634. The battle near Nördlingen, turning point of the Thirty Years War . Späthling, Weißenstadt 2009; P. 35; ISBN 978-3-926621-78-8
  4. ↑ Klaus-Peter Rueß: The ambassador's cemetery at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg, its origin and its construction history. State Library Regensburg, Regensburg 2015, p. 67.
  5. ↑ Karl Bauer: Regensburg, Art, Culture and Everyday History, p. 394, MZ-Buchverlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4
  6. ^ Helmut Halter, Johann Schmuck: Alt Regensburg, Pictures of a City , Verlag Gebr. Metz Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-921580-80-3 , p. 142
  7. ↑ http://eisenbahnfreunde-regenstauf.npage.de/regensburger-strassenbahn.html
  8. ^ Eugen Trapp: Princely legacy. The green border of Regensburg's old town . In: City of Regensburg, Office for Archives and Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Regensburg . tape 13 . Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2550-5 , pp. 294-296 .
  9. ↑ Peter Morsbach: We want to be watchmen, 50 years Association of Friends of the Old Town Regensburg eV brochure City of Regensburg 2016

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 5.3 "  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 28.3"  E