Stone Hammer Gate

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The Steindammer Tor was a city ​​gate on the Steindamm , the road from Königsberg to Pillau .

history

There was already a Steindammsches gate on the castle moat in the Middle Ages. In the course of the city's growth, it was built in 1630 as the Steindammsches Wallentor at the end of the Steindamm. It is the only city gate of the Königsberg fortification buildings that was demolished in 1912. After the demolition of the Pillau station, it stood in the way of the new construction of the north station with Hansaplatz . This gate had two passageways and two pedestrian gates. On the inside there was a statue of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. It looked towards the drum square between Steindammer Wall and Wallring, one of the few larger places within the wall. On the south side of the drum square was the barracks of the infantry regiment "Duke Karl von Mecklenburg-Strelitz" (6th East Prussian) No. 43 . The statue was later moved to the fortress museum. In 1820 the locations in front of the Steindammer Tor and belonging to the old town church St. Nikolaus were designated: Vorderhufen with the Legan Inn, Mittelhufen with the Luisenwahl estate and the Conradshof and Carlsruhe inns, the Ziegelhof estate , the Speechan Inn, the Kosse and the new bleach.

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings. Special edition. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  • Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Hobbing & Büchle, Stuttgart 1899 ( German land and life in single descriptions . 2, city stories), (reprint: Melchior-Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 2006, ISBN 3-939102-70-9 ( historical library )).
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes. 2nd / 3rd supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Jürgen Manthey: Königsberg. History of a world citizenship republic. Hanser, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. On the way between Memel and Haff. Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X ( Trescher travel series ).
  • Samuel Gottlieb Wald : Topographical overview of the administrative district of the Royal Prussian Government in Königsberg in Prussia. Degen, Königsberg 1820 (reprint: self-published by the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia eV, Hamburg 1979 ( special publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia eV 43, ISSN  0505-2734 )).

Web links

Commons : Steindammer Tor  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörn Pekrul: The Königsberg city gates in 2018 . Königsberger Bürgerbrief 91 (2018), p. 13.

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 9.5 ″  N , 20 ° 30 ′ 3.4 ″  E