Prenzlauer Tor (Templin)
The Prenzlauer Tor is a gate of the listed city fortifications of Templin in Brandenburg .
location
It is located in the eastern part of the old town of Templin, at the beginning of the street leading towards Prenzlau .
Architecture and history
The gate system is dominated by a three-storey brick tower that rises above the gate passage. The floor plan of the tower is square, its facades are structured by panels. The facade facing the city is decorated with crabs and pegs. The tower was built on the site of a previous building which was partly included in the new building. In the interior of the complex, there are field stones that come from the older building that was built together with the city wall around 1300. On the outside there is a two-tier portcullis template. The gate is the youngest of the gates of the Templin city fortifications.
Around 1600, another passage, known as the Waldemarsgang , was built into the main gate .
Unusually, the entrance gate has also been preserved on the site. It consists of a two-story brick building from the beginning of the 15th century. it is provided with a gable roof. There are two passageways designed as round arches. On the upper floor there are earth and pointed arches. The front gate is connected to the main gate by brick walls, so that a kennel was built there.
In 1866 the street layout was changed so that the gate system lost its original function. A municipal fire station was set up and the kennel roofed over. After the First World War , a memorial was created for those who fell in the war. From 1953, work was done to set up a local museum. The cloister has been converted into an office. The museum was then located in Prenzlauer Tor from 1957.
A renovation took place in 2010. The cloister was also reopened. The Museum of City History Templin was housed in the large space created between the gate and the front gate .
literature
- Kristina Krüger, Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Brandenburg , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , page 1047.
- Max Lobedan, Helmut Schmertosch, Templin and the surrounding area , Stadt-Bild-Verlag Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-931554-67-8 , page 10 f.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 10.9 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 14 ″ E