Knight's Gate
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The Knight's Gate is a medieval city gate in Stolberg (Harz) in Saxony-Anhalt .
The gate is located at the western end of the Stolberger Ritterstraße and protected the western entrance to the city.
history
The Knight's Gate was built between 1260 and 1280 as a gatehouse over the passage. It was originally called Eselsgässer Tor , after the former name of today's Rittergasse. Next to the gate were the donkey stables that were used to transport goods up to Stolberg Castle . The outer gate had small corner towers. In the autumn of 1635, the gate partially collapsed. Residents of Stolberg returning home had only recently passed the gate with their children. After a repair, the building collapsed again during a storm in 1640 and was then fundamentally renewed, including palisades and trenchessecured. Due to the geographical location of Stolberg in narrow valleys, apart from the gates and their surroundings to secure the valley entrances, there were no other city fortifications.
literature
- Wolfgang Knape, Stolberg , Schmidt-Buch-Verlag Wernigerode 2007, ISBN 978-3-928977-34-0 , page 28
- Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt II, Dessau and Halle administrative districts , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , page 804
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 34.7 " N , 10 ° 56 ′ 48.8" E