Salztor (Naumburg)

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Salt gate in Naumburg

The Salztor is a city ​​gate to the old town of Naumburg (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt . The gatehouses are now used as a library and event rooms.

history

The old salt gate, demolished in 1834

The original, late medieval salt gate was the most heavily fortified city gate of the five gates of the Naumburg city ​​fortifications . A stone bridge built in 1545 from stones from the demolished Georgenkloster led to the gate, which was secured by two towers . The old salt gate was then torn down in 1834.

In 1834/35, the gatehouses still in existence today in the classicism style were built as a replacement . The houses built by master mason Johann Heinrich Elschner the Elder and Heinrich Crato, based on designs by Friedrich Erdmann Heinrich Schmid , other information cites the Naumburg architect Schröder , flank the access road and, like the previous building, initially served as a customs post and from 1874 as a guard and detention center . Later, until 1992, a classroom for the neighboring Salztorschule was housed in the western building . The east building was used by the puppet theater as a side room. The roof and facade were renewed in 1914. In the following years, however, maintenance measures were neglected, so that an extensive renovation was required from 1992. First the eastern gatehouse was renovated, then the western gatehouse in 1993/94.

Today the library Bibliotheca Lepsius of the former Naumburg mayor Carl Peter Lepsius is housed in the east gate house. The western building is used as an event room and exhibition space for the theater.

architecture

Today's Salztor consists of two separate gatehouses, which face each other in mirror symmetry. Both buildings were built on a rectangular floor plan. The narrow sides face each other and on this side facing the street each have four columns and a triangular gable resting on a surrounding entablature . The houses are based on the shape of prostyle temples in Doric order . Both buildings have a roof made of zinc sheet .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schubert, Dehio, page 604
  2. ↑ Salztor and Kramerplatz

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 11 ° 48 ′ 18.2 ″  E