Stone gate
The Steinentor was a city gate of the city of Basel and was once part of the Basel city wall . It was finally demolished in 1866 as part of the Basel City Expansion Act of 1859.
history
The stone gate was first mentioned in 1387 as Herthor am Steinen . Presumably it was the successor building of a gate to an already existing suburban fortification. 1473 was one in front of the gate tower in the moat Vorwerk with roof built. The gate forecourt, which extended to today's "Inner Margarethenstrasse", was probably built at the same time. A provisional Vorwerk had been built around thirty years earlier.
The illustration after Emanuel Büchel from around 1745 shows that the stone gate also had a tent roof and a vestibule. The tower roof disappeared after 1842 and was replaced by a crenellated crown with a bell tower. The forecourt was shortened to half its length in the 1830s / 1840s.
In 1858 the forecourt of the gate with the guard house and the bridge over the moat was demolished after the moat had been filled. The Vorwerk at the gate tower had to give way in 1865, in October 1866 the tower itself fell with the adjoining wall sections. He was standing right next to the present BVB - Tram station Heuwaage .
literature
- Rudolf Kaufmann, Basel the old townscape, 1936, Birkhäuser Verlag, articles 5 to 8
- Annual report 1989 of the Archaeological Soil Research BS, catalog of the landside outer city fortifications of Grossbasel, pages 91 to 92
- CHBaer, Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Basel Stadt, Volume 1, 1932, Birkhäuser Verlag, pages 182 to 185
- CAMüller, Die Stadtbefestigung von Basel, 1956, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, pages 34 to 36
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City gates of the outer wall:
Aeschentor |
St. Alban's Gate |
Wind monitor |
St. Johanns Gate |
Row gate |
Spalentor |
Stone gate
Candle arches of the inner wall: Ash arches |
St. Alban Schwibbogen |
St. Johanns-Schwibbogen |
Column arch
Other fortifications:
Letziturm |
Rheintor |
Thomasturm