Black Gate (Dresden)

Christian Gottlob Hammer :
The Black Gate, 1812 (interior view)

Exterior view of the Black Gate

The Black Gate , also Bautzner Tor or Lausitzer Tor , belonged to the city fortifications of Altendresden (today's Inner New Town ) and was located at the end of the main street at the level of Albertplatz . It was laid out in 1632 and removed again from 1811/1812.

The black gate is “eternalized” in the novella The Golden Pot by ETA Hoffmann , which begins: “On Ascension Day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, a young person in Dresden ran through the black gate and into a basket with apples and cakes old ugly woman for sale, ... "

Today, the dead end street Am Schwarzen Tor , a side street of the Hospitalstrasse leading off from Albertplatz, is reminiscent of the city gate . 51.0614 13.7466258

Footnotes and individual references

↑ Various information, see e.g. B. Diss. By Yevgeniy Pomerantsev: Enchanted Truths: Romantic and Post-Romantic Models of Poetic Knowledge. New York 2008, p. 51 or picture: The explosion of the powder magazine in the new ski jump in front of the Black Thor in Dresden on June 27, 1814 at 8 a.m. ( Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ). - In 1813, Napoleon had the demolition of the Dresden fortifications that he had initiated stopped and had them prepared for the expected battle for Dresden , see z. B. Lutz Reike: Napoleon in Dresden. In: Dresden History Book , Volume 1, 1995, p. 54 f.

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[1] Various information, see e.g. B. Diss. By Yevgeniy Pomerantsev: Enchanted Truths: Romantic and Post-Romantic Models of Poetic Knowledge. New York 2008, p. 51 or picture: The explosion of the powder magazine in the new ski jump in front of the Black Thor in Dresden on June 27, 1814 at 8 a.m. ( Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ). - In 1813, Napoleon had the demolition of the Dresden fortifications that he had initiated stopped and had them prepared for the expected battle for Dresden , see z. B. Lutz Reike: Napoleon in Dresden. In: Dresden History Book , Volume 1, 1995, p. 54 f.