Red Gate (Flensburg)

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Drawing of the Red Gate (1864)
The Rote Straße with the approximate location of the Red Gate . (Photo 2014)

The Red Gate (actually Rude Gate ; Danish : Røde Port) was a city ​​gate that once bounded the city of Flensburg to the south. It was thus part of the former Flensburg city fortifications . The gate was demolished in 1874, but remained a landmark of the Rote Straße and the Rude district .

history

The people of Flensburg began to surround the city with a wall around 1345. Around 1350 the Rude Porte ( Rude Porte ), the predecessor of the Red Gate, was built. This little gate was roughly at house number 12-14 on Rote Straße and therefore not far from the Franciscan monastery of St. Katharinen . This gate was used to get out of the city, namely to Rude , a cleared forest. which was incorporated in 1398. The gate into the city led to the Südermarkt .

In 1608, for traffic-related reasons, the gate was replaced by the Red Gate, which was built at the Rote Straße 23 property. It was less cramped than the previous gate. The Red Gate to the south was one of the most important gates of the city, such as the Nordertor , the Frisian Gate to the west and the Johannistor (or Angelburg Gate) to the east. In 1727 the Red Gate received a newly designed facade, which was characterized by a baroque gable. A coat of arms and a sundial were attached to the south side of the gate . Master mason Johann Christian Handel was responsible for the renovation work . In the 19th century, many of the Flensburg city gates were demolished because they stood in the way of traffic planning. The Red Gate was canceled in 1874.

In contrast to other demolished gates of Flensburg, what the Red Gate looked like is quite well known, as there are several photos of the gate . However, only the state of construction since the fundamental renovation in 1727 has been handed down. Older representations do not exist. In the city model by Erwin Nöbbe , which shows the city in the state before 1600, it is in the Shipping Museum Flensburg , the Red Gate is shown in the shape of today's Nordertor. The color of the red gate is also rather uncertain, because the name of the gate does not come from the color red , but rather, as already explained, comes from the fact that you got from the gate to the row .

During the city festival for the 700th anniversary of Flensburg in 1984, the gate at the end of Rote Straße , at the cloister corridor, was temporarily repositioned in the form of a larger model. The model was over 4 meters high, but was smaller than the original. Nowadays a memorial stone with the indicated silhouette of the gate reminds of the former location of the gate.

Most recently, the Red Gate was the focus of daily reporting in November 2014. Among other things, the Red Gate served as the justification for a low-estimated purchase price for an urban plot of land opposite the Flensburg town hall, which the investor Gerd Theilen wants to purchase for a hotel. The plot of land to be built on is located west of Sydbank, which is on Rote Straße. The planned underground car park for the hotel is also likely to be built in this western area. The Flensburger Tageblatt reported: "[Gerd Theilen] [...] has nothing wrong with the lower purchase price, because he wants to build on the half of the property with the greater imponderables: archaeologists suspect the legendary Red Gate [...]". The traditional location of the Red Gate, however, is apparently much more to the east on Rote Straße, which does not make it particularly clear what the hotel planning could have to do with the Red Gate.

  • The sign of the Red Street with the Red Gate as a landmark

  • The memorial wall where roughly the Red Gate stood

  • Tile picture of the Red Gate opposite the Flensburg City Hall

  • The red gate at the school on the Rude

literature

  • Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972.
  • Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg - History of a border town . Flensburg 1966.
  • Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Hospital and Monastery of the Holy Spirit . Flensburg 1995.
  • Klaus Ove Kahrmann: Flensburg around the turn of the century and today . Neumünster 1984.
  • Ludwig Rohling: The art monuments of the city of Flensburg . Munich 1955, pp. 31-45.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City districts, published by the City of Flensburg ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A b c d e Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 22
  3. ↑ a b c City wall and city gates. Reading and workbook on the history of Flensburg for home and general education .. from the University of Flensburg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8 MB), page 13 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-flensburg.de
  4. ↑ See the name of the monastery: Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Katharinenkirche
  5. ↑ Gerhard Nowc : Engelsby, Mürwik, Jürgensby - History on the doorstep , in: Flensburger Tageblatt , February 5th 2009; accessed on: June 15, 2014
  6. ↑ Red Gate, Flensburg ; accessed on: June 15, 2014
  7. ↑ a b c Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Rotes Tor
  8. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 398
  9. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : For traffic reasons, the “Red Gate” was torn down, June 11th 1974
  10. ↑ Red Gate, Flensburg ; accessed on: June 15, 2014
  11. ↑ Gen. : Just keep up with the weather, wet feet and lots of dry wine at the festivities in the southern old town, in: Flensburger Tageblatt , May 26, 1984; as well as in: Stadt Flensburg - Der Magistrat (Hrsg.) : 700 years of the city of Flensburg: 1284–1984, We celebrated our 700th birthday (press coverage), 1985
  12. ↑ Holger Ohlsen : Rathausplatz: Conference hotel in Flensburg: Kiel is now planning with , from: November 17, 2014; Retrieved on: November 18, 2014
  13. ↑ Fördeschnack, Is Flensburg threatened with another drama from the series: Hotel building in Flensburg? , accessed on: November 18, 2014
  14. ↑ See the list of monuments of the excavation protection areas (status: September 22, 2015)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 31; Retrieved on: February 16, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schleswig-holstein.de  

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Coordinates: 54 ° 46 ′ 51.8 ″  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 9 ″  E