Sick gate

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Sick gate
The infirmary with part of the “Béinchen” bridge. In the background the "red bridge" ( Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge )
The Vauban Towers in the fortress
Fortress plan 1794, in the north the two Vauban towers (designated in the plan as No. 55 and No. 56)

The Siechentor ( Luxembourgish Sichepaart or Siichepaart ; French : Porte des Bons-Malades, abbreviation: PBM ) was a gate tower and part of the former fortress of the Luxembourg Fortress . The gate stands on the right bank of the Alzette (seen from the fortress), in the north of the former fortress and is connected to a bridge ( Béinchen ) with the Eichertor (lux .: Eecherpaart ; French: Porte d'Eich , abbr .: P . d'E ) connected.

Rue Saint-Mathieu (CR218) runs to the right of the Siechentor.

Surname

The name of the existing and existing gates comes from the former Siechenhof ( Luxembourgish Sichenhaff , also: Sichegronn , Seechengrund or Val des Bons-Malades ) in the north. The Siechenhof is now part of the Pfaffenthal district (in Luxembourg Pafendall ). This part of the Pfaffenthal, Siechenhof, begins at the Siechentor and borders the Eich district . Even before Vauban's erection of the infirmary, there were medieval gates with restricted access to the city of Luxembourg. A gate "Bons malades" is mentioned for the first time in the 1338 documents. The gate had different names over the centuries (examples): Siecherludeporte (1444), Sicherheitsporte (1472), Paffendaler Porten (1479), Sichenleuth Pfordt (1659), Porte des lépreux (1717).

Edification and function

The two gate towers that are still visible today and the connecting wall with wooden battlements were built in 1684/1685 according to plans by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban ( France ), who wanted to include part of the Pfaffenthal in the fortress of Luxembourg to protect it. That is why these two gate towers are also known as the Vauban towers .

The infirmary not only regulated and monitored access to the Luxembourg fortress, but was also intended to prevent soldiers from deserting the fortress .

On the first floor of the infirmary there is a room in which a film about the history of the Luxembourg Fortress can be seen.

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Since 1994, the stand legs and the Vauban towers along with the other remains of the former fortress of Luxembourg on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage .

Movie

  • Vauban - builder and general. Docu-drama , France, Luxembourg, 2011, 85 min., Script and director: Pascal Cuissot, production: arte France, Le Miroir, Mélusine, German first broadcast: March 10, 2012 on arte, film information from arte.

Web links

Commons : Siechentor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pair in the sense of: gate, gate, city gate (outdated according to the Luxembourg dictionary (LWF) , website of the University of Luxembourg).
  2. ^ French Malade iSv ill .
  3. ↑ Tours Vauban: Les portes d'Eich et des Bons Malades et le mur Vauban. , Website: ssmn.public.lu.
  4. ↑ Information on the information boards at the Eichertor and the Ravelin.
  5. ↑ Vauban circular route on the trail of the fortress builder. From the Bockfelsen to the Kirchberg , website: www.luxembourg-city.com, p. 6.

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '0.55 "  N , 6 ° 7' 56.82"  E