Porta Nigra Square

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The eponymous Roman city gate

The Porta-Nigra-Platz is an area and the name of different street sections on the land side of the Porta Nigra in Trier . The square is an important traffic junction and connects Nordallee , Theodor-Heuss-Allee , Christophstraße , Simeonstraße and Paulinstraße . The areas immediately in front of and behind the Porta Nigra are designed as a pedestrian zone and are called the Porta Nigra forecourt .

It is named after the Porta Nigra, the famous city ​​gate from Roman times . However, there are also other cultural monuments on site . In addition, the historical facades of the Simeonstift Museum and the “Zum Christophel” house partially border Porta-Nigra-Platz.

There is also a hotel belonging to the Mercure chain on Porta-Nigra-Platz . In place of today's concrete complex, there was a monumental building built in the style of historicism from 1898 , which housed the "Hotel Porta Nigra". It was characterized by its sumptuous halls and "running hot water" in the bathrooms. When the building was in need of renovation, it was demolished in 1967. The new building, which opened in its place in 1968, belonged to the Dorint hotel chain until 2004 , before it was taken over by the Mercure chain. In the building there is also a casino , the "Trier Casino".

Until 2005 there was a pedestrian underpass to cross Porta-Nigra-Platz, which has now been closed to pedestrian traffic and replaced by pedestrian crossings at ground level . The old underpass has been used as a bicycle garage since then.

From 1933 to 1945 the square was called "Adolf-Hitler-Platz". Hitler had been an honorary citizen of Trier since 1933 . Since 1945, honorary citizenship was considered to have expired due to Hitler's death and his crimes against humanity; In 2010, the symbolic act of revoking honorary citizenship took place.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Zenz: Street names of the city of Trier: their sense and their meaning . Ed .: Culture Office of the City of Trier. 5th edition. Trier 2006, DNB  455807825 (1st edition 1961).
  2. ↑ Patrick Ostermann (arrangement): City of Trier. Old town. (=  Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 17.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-171-8 .
  3. ^ Festschrift 100 years of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier: Contributions to the archeology and art of the Trier region , ed. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1979, p. 172
  4. ↑ Once upon a time ... the Hotel Porta Nigra. In: wochenspiegellive.de. June 22, 2015, accessed September 13, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Helmut Lutz: Directory of the listed buildings since 1930. Preservation of monuments in Trier (1975) Ed .: Urban preservation of monuments
  6. ^ Roland Morgen: Twice the Hotel Mercure in Trier. ( Memento from March 21, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Trierischen Volksfreund, September 7, 2004.
  7. ↑ volksfreund.de: New at Volksfreund: Old Trier city views as a calendar - volksfreund.de. In: volksfreund.de. July 21, 2016, accessed September 13, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Paulinstrasse moves closer to the porta again. In: City Hall. City of Trier, November 28, 2005, accessed on September 9, 2015 (renovation of Porta-Nigra-Platz / construction of a pedestrian ford).
  9. ^ Trier working group during the Nazi era. In: City tour of Trier during the Nazi era. Working Group Peace e. V., accessed on September 9, 2015 .
  10. ^ Symbolic act - Hitler no longer an honorary citizen of Trier. In: rp-online.de. September 2, 2010, accessed September 9, 2015 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 34 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 37"  E