City wall Mönchengladbach

city ​​wall

Listed remains of the Mönchengladbach city wall are located in Geropark at the foot of the Abteiberg in the south of the Gladbach district of Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The construction took place between 1300 and 1800. The complex was entered under No. A 047 on August 26, 1999 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The preserved section of the city ​​wall is northeast of the Geroweiher between Weiherstrasse and Hittastrasse.

architecture

The city ​​wall, built from field fire bricks , consists in the east of the rudimentary remains of a shell tower , to which a 50 m long section of wall adjoins to the west. Several loopholes have been preserved in the up to 6 m high and 1 m thick city wall . While they widen to funnel-shaped openings on the city side, on the former field side they are only designed as small, high-rectangular notch openings.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
• Rüdiger Pongs: The Gladbach city fortifications . The defenses in Gladbach from the fortified Münsterberg to the fortification of the Thirty Years War. Ed .: Christian Wolfsberger. Klartext Medienwerkstatt GmbH, Essen, Mönchengladbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1101-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on January 21, 2015]).

swell

• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 (234.24 kB). 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012, accessed on September 23, 2012 (227.14 kB). 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 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 ° 11 ′ 30.4 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 48.8"  E