Porte d'Arroux
The Porte d'Arroux (also Port de Sens or de Paris ) in Autun , a French city in the Saône-et-Loire department in the historic Burgundy region , is a city gate to the Roman city of Augustodunum . The road leading through the gate led to Via Agrippa towards Gesoriacum (Boulogne-sur-Mer) and to a junction towards Avaricum ( Bourges ) and on to Sens . The building on Rue du Faubourg-d'Arroux has been a listed building since 1846 ( Monument historique ).
The six kilometer long Roman city wall had four city gates, the Porte d'Arroux and the Porte Saint-André are still there. The Porte d'Arroux was at the northern end of the Cardo . The gate, which dates back to the 3rd century, has four passages, the middle ones having a passage height of 7.92 meters, the smaller ones on the sides and intended for pedestrians a height of 5.14 meters. The total height of the gate is 16.70 meters. The gate is two-storeyed and made of sandstone in its lower part and limestone on the upper floor. Only the outer side of the facades is preserved, while the city side has been completely destroyed. Above the archivolts of the larger arches, the basement closes with a framework of architraves , a smooth frieze as well as console geison and sima . The upper floor is designed as an arcade gallery , with pilasters of Corinthian order between the openings, and crowned by a similar beam as the lower floor.
literature
- Raymond Chevallier: Gallia Lugdunensis: Bilan de 25 ans de recherches historiques et archéologiques. In: Hildegard Temporini (ed.): The rise and fall of the Roman world . Row II: Principat. Third volume. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1975, p. 1048.
Web links
- Porte d'Arroux Description as Monument historique in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)
Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 35.6 " N , 4 ° 17 ′ 43.3" E