City fortifications Gmünd (Lower Austria)
The city fortifications of Gmünd include the old town of the municipality of Gmünd in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria . The remains of the city walls are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The border and castle town of Gmünd was systematically founded around 1200 at the Gemünde (confluence) of the Lainsitz and the Braunaubach by Hadmar II von Kuenring (around 1140–1217) and expanded in the first half of the 13th century. In 1217 a castle was named.
City fortifications
Remains of the northern city wall are located a little further south along the Mühlgasse, beginning to the west at the Bruckmühle at the bridge over the Lainsitz, to the east the city wall ends directly north of the parish church. The remains of the eastern city wall begin north in front of the parish church choir and end in a bend to an open gap in the southern city wall. The remains of the southern city wall form the end of the back of the southern row of houses in the main square, start east at Sigismundgasse, run to the west and end at the level of the southern front in front of Gmünd Castle . The parish church fortified the northeast corner, the castle, which was later converted into a castle, fortified the southwest corner.
The city fortifications formerly had a city gate in the northwest to the bridge over the Lainsitz as lower gate or water gate and a city gate in the south as upper gate as an extension of today's Bahnhofstrasse. In the northeast, the city wall has been preserved up to the height of the battlements. The main square extends from west to east in a ratio of 1: 7 and has the parallel Kirchengasse as Hintausgasse in the north.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Gmünd, district capital, with city map. Pp. 273-274.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 21 ″ N , 14 ° 59 ′ 17.5 ″ E