Potsdam city gates

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The city gates of the state capital Potsdam (green = visible in the cityscape, red = broken off)

The city of Potsdam had ten city ​​gates , four of which are visible today in their entirety and two more in fragments (Berliner and Neustädter Tor). The Gates presented the passages are built by the early 18th century and Akzise- Desertationsmauer. They were from 1722 under the Soldier King Friedrich Wilhelm I. erected. The excise was a consumption tax for cities based on the Dutch model since 1680. After the tax was abandoned with the Stein-Hardenberg reforms , the gates were used to collect the meal and slaughter tax until 1909. Nevertheless, some gates (old and new water gate, water gate) and most of the city fortifications disappeared during the imperial era .

At the end of the 19th century, the Nauener Tor and the Berliner Tor were adapted to the increasing traffic without affecting the overall artistic appearance of the time they were built. In World War II, all the gates were damaged. The city council had the archway of the Berliner Tor and the ruins of the Neustädter Tor demolished. Today only a gatehouse reminds of the Berliner Tor, of the Neustädter Tor, built according to plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff , only a rebuilt obelisk remained near the former location. The cellar gate was reconstructed in 2016/2017.

All goals at a glance:

  1. Brandenburg Gate
  2. Hunter gate
  3. Nauen Gate
  4. New water gate
  5. Berlin Gate
  6. Cellar gate
  7. Water gate
  8. Teltower Gate
  9. Old water gate
  10. Neustadt Gate

  • Brandenburg Gate , view from the west

  • Jägertor , view from the south

  • Nauener Tor , view from the south

  • Berliner Tor , view from the northeast, around 1930

  • Guard house of the cellar gate , view from the west 1911

  • Preserved part of the city wall in the Große Fischerstrasse between the cellar gate and the water gate

  • Long bridge with gatehouses of the Teltower Tor (left), watercolor by Johann Heinrich Hintze , 1840

  • Damaged Neustädter Tor, view from the east, around 1946

literature

  • Friedrich Mielke : Potsdam architecture. Frankfurt / Main 1981, p. 192.
  • Thomas Wernicke u. a. (Ed.): Potsdam Lexicon. Berlin 2010.
  • Hermann Fellien: Potsdam's city gates. In: Brandenburgische newest news. August 26, 1971.
  • Hans-Joachim Giersberg : Friedrich as the client. Berlin 1986, p. 188 ff.
  • Hans Kania: The fate of our old city gates. In: The Old Potsdam of Prof. Dr. Hans Kania. Magdeburg 2007, p. 112.

Web links

Commons : Potsdamer Stadttore  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mielke 1981.
  2. ↑ Hans Berg: The lost center of Potsdam. Berlin 1999, p. 46.