City fortifications Dudeldorf
The old city walls are a monument zone of Dudeldorf , a local community in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). In the current situation the upper gate , the cemetery wall and the lower gate are still present. Most of the city fortifications have disappeared.
history
The city wall, which was built after 1345, has largely disappeared, but its original course, accompanied by a moat, is easy to understand. Access to the place was granted by the Obertor in the west, the Untertor in the east and the Burgtor ( Dudeldorf Castle ). To the north of the upper gate, the wall was preserved as a cemetery wall ( cemetery ). Subsequently, in connection with the new construction of the castle in 1734, the extension included the castle area, which is not secured by any moat in the north and therefore the garden wall coincides with it. From there the city fortifications, accompanied on the outside by a mill ditch, ran south-east down the slope, where it was interrupted by a small inlet to the mill secured to the north by a wall tongue and covered by a semicircular tower, to the lower gate. No wall remains in the south of Dudeldorf . The fortification ran along the Langmauer street, which was named after her, to the Obertor. Remnants of the moat were removed in the 1960s.
From the late summer of 2014 to May 2015, both city gates were restored to shape the townscape and historically.
Upper gate
The four-storey gate tower of the Obertor stands at the western end of the main street and is now part of the adjoining residential building to the south. A large part of the building details characteristic of the defense tower have been preserved. The ground floor is reinforced on the field side with sandstone blocks. The pointed archway could be closed by a folding grille and a gate wing. There is a small rectangular opening in the top of the vault, through which hot pitch was poured on enemies for defense. There are four original, plastered floors above the ground floor, which could be closed by wooden shutters. The field side of the tower also had a cast bay window, the north side ( cemetery ) a toilet bay. The relief of a crucifix inscribed in 1453 is walled in above the gate. The flat hipped roof was renewed in 1962. The current use of the Obertore serves as a restaurant Torezanke Dudeldorf .
Lower gate
The lower gate is of the same type, but simpler and heavily modified. The original arched gate passage was widened in the course of the road construction around 1840 and closed with a basket arch. Due to the shared use as a residential building by the house at Hauptstrasse 60 , which was added to the south in 1839 , all older openings were plastered over. A flat gable roof replaced the residential roof. After a bomb attack in World War II, the lower gate was slightly damaged, but could be rebuilt. After the community was regained in 1984, all but one of the windows facing the city were closed again, but the medieval building details were exposed. The masonry has been restored and painted white. The gate passage and the roof remained in the condition of 1840. The lower gate is still used today as a residential tower.
literature
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (publisher): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm. Mainz 2018, p. 30 (PDF; 4.4 MB).}
Web links
- Entry on Dudeldorf Castle - remains of the city fortifications in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on the long wall in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ Entry on Obertor of the city fortifications in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved March 3, 2016.