Paulustor (Fulda)
The Paulustor in Fulda was built between 1709 and 1711 according to plans by Johann Dientzenhofer .
history
The gate , which was initially located between the City Palace and the Hauptwache , was moved to its current location at the end of the Paulus Promenade in 1771 by the building inspector Karl Philipp Arnd at the request of Prince Bishop Heinrich von Bibra and provided with side structures. The historian Werner Kirchhoff noted that the gate used to be at the other end by the main guard in the wall separating the monastery district and the city, and that the move to its current location was a political manifestation: “Von Bibra removed the division between the monastery area and the city and documented that the previous subjects were now citizens ”. Its existence has been endangered several times. For the first time in 1871, when the new Prussian government in Berlin and Kassel was constantly coming up with new "subtleties" for Fulda. Finally, the city, headed by Mayor Franz Rang , bought the Paulustor from the treasury for 200 Reichstaler to prevent it from being demolished.
Design
The baroque building is named after the apostle Paul , whose statue stands in the middle above the portal, framed by the two city saints Simplizius and Faustinus . On the right is the figure of Saint Simplizius equipped with a spear, a shield and a cross; on the left side Saint Faustinus is also shown with a spear, a shield with a lily and half an imperial eagle . Both sandstone statues were probably created by Andreas Balthasar Weber and acted as guardian figures to protect the city from enemies and to defend the faith.
literature
- Michael Mott : A guard room in deep sleep / Who wakes the Paulustorwache from its slumber / Unused for over 50 years . In: Fuldaer Zeitung , November 11, 1991, p. 11 (series: DENK-mal!).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Kramer , Hans Retzlaff : Fulda , Deutscher Kunstverlag 1962, p. 35, here online
- ↑ The Pauluspromenade looks good ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fuldaer Zeitung of May 21, 2010
- ↑ Saint Simplizius by Christiane Spork and Peter Klingebiel, Fulda University of Applied Sciences
- ^ The Saint Faustinus by Christiane Spork and Peter Klingebiel, Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 19.4 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 22.5" E