City fortifications Jüterbog
The Jüterbog city fortification was a wall around the old town of Jüterbog . Other districts of the city of Jüterbog were not within the city fortifications. The city fortifications include the wall, soft houses, towers, bastions and three gates. As early as 1855, the city fortifications were named as a monument in a survey , and the existing parts are still listed today.
The city fortifications
The old town was enclosed by a wall. There were ditches and ramparts in front of the wall, but they have now disappeared. It was about six meters high, but it is no longer preserved today. The wall had a parapet walk in parts, of which it is no longer known today whether it ran around the entire wall.
There were three gates in the wall. These consisted of an inner gate, an outer gate and a kennel . These are the Dammtor in the west, the Zinnaertor in the north and the Neumarkttor in the east. There was a gatekeeper house at each gate, of which only the one at Dammtor has survived. This is where the people who were responsible for closing and collecting tariffs stayed.
history
Construction probably started around 1300, the city wall was first mentioned in 1335. The wall was expanded in the late Middle Ages. In 1478 the city burned down and the wall was damaged. It was restored by the citizens, the work was probably finished in 1487. The maintenance of the city fortifications decreased from 1500 on. Before the Thirty Years War the drawbridges were in ruins. In 1687 the Heilig-Geist-Hof burned down and parts of the wall collapsed. The wall was rebuilt, however, with the introduction of the excise the city fortifications had found a new meaning.
The last attack on the city fortifications took place in 1813, it was successfully defended against the attacking Russians. In 1819 the excise was abolished, so the walls and ditches were leveled. In 1826 part of the wall collapsed after a thunderstorm, from 1839 the city fortifications were gradually dismantled. Parts of the city fortifications were removed by 1909.
Special components of the city fortifications
All three gates of the city gates are still largely preserved.
Zinna Gate
The Zinnaer Strasse goes through the Zinnarer Tor .
Both the angular and the round tower of the Zinnar Gate have been preserved. The lower part of the round tower is made of field stone and was built around 1300. The upper part was made of brick around 1480-1490. The tower is completed at the top with a crenellated wreath and a brick helmet.
The angular tower is a late Gothic building. The tent roof was erected in 1933. The archway was a traffic obstacle and was demolished for this reason in 1886 and rebuilt in a higher form in 1889. The gatekeeper house was demolished in 1928. Today nothing is left of the outer gate or the kennel.
The Jüterbog club and a board are still hanging on the Zinna Gate. The board says:
"Anyone who gives his children bread and suffers hardship himself afterwards, is beaten to death with the club". There is only guesswork about the meaning. The Jüterbog club was on all three goals.
Neumarkttor
The Große Straße goes through the new reactor .
Only the round tower of the Neumarkttor has been preserved. Like the Zinna Gate, it was created around 1300 and expanded from 1480 to 1490. In 1999 it was restored. The square tower was demolished in 1909. The archway was a traffic obstruction and was demolished in 1839. The whereabouts of the gatekeeper house is unknown. The new generator also had a kennel with walls, but these have not been preserved.
The outer gate is still there, the gate was built in the late 15th century. Since 1984, traffic has been routed around the gate. Remnants of the kennel walls were discovered during this road work.
Dam gate
The Dammtor was formerly also called the Frauentor. Dammtorstraße goes to the west, Mönchenstraße to the north, Pferdestraße to the east and Hinter der Mauer to the south.
Just like the other gates, the Dammtor consisted of an outer gate, a kennel with walls and an inner gate. Only fragments remain of the entire gate. The building history is also identical to the other gates. The Holy Spirit Hospital was also located south of the dam gate.
The round tower of the inner tower has a height of 32.26 meters and a diameter of 7.35 meters. The tower is made of field stone at the bottom and brickwork at the top. The parapet has a crenellated wreath, the tower is completed with a plastered cone helmet. The inside is four storeys. The tower served as a depot for weapons and ammunition, and at times it was also a prison.
The archway was demolished in 1851. The narrow and low passage was a traffic obstacle. The last gatekeeper's house is on the round tower, today Mönchenstrasse 1.
city wall
Parts of the city wall are still preserved in the north-western part. In the area of the dam gate there is a piece of wall made of field stones. There is a semicircular bastion north of the dam gate. The north-west corner is marked by a round tower. A large section has been preserved north of the monastery. In the section from Wursthof to Zinnaer Tor, the course of the wall has been almost completely preserved.
On the east side of the Zinnaer Tor there are only approaches to the city wall. In the southern part only three towers are left today. They are square towers from the 15th century. The longest part of the wall that still exists today is located in the southwest.
literature
- Marie-Luise Buchinger and Marcus Cante, monuments in Brandenburg, Teltow Fläming district, part 1: City of Jüterbog with Zinna monastery and Niedergörsdorf community, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-88462-154-8 , pages 99-107
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 7 ″ E