Stephingertor

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Das Steffinger Thor , from: The beauties of the Königl. District town of Augsburg , around 1818

The Stephingertor (also Steffingertor and St. Gallentor ) is a former city ​​gate of the outer city wall in the northeast of Augsburg . It was built in 1304 and was named St. Gallentor until the middle of the 15th century (after the local church of St. Gallus ). It is first mentioned in a document in 1367. The name Stephingertor refers to the church and monastery of St. Stephan, which is also nearby . The gate is not to be confused with the barefoot gate , which was sometimes also called the Steffingertor.

Description and history

The gate was box-shaped, relatively small and served as the exit to the city between the Lueginsland bastion and the Oblattertor . At the end of the 14th century, a wooden bridge was added to the gate, which led over the moat. In 1454 this was replaced by a new stone bridge. The bridge itself, however, remained made of wood, only its pillars were wall arches parallel to the gate passage. The wooden longitudinal beams of the bridge rested on these stone pillars.

The gate tower used to have a pointed helmet , as can be seen from a city view from 1514 and the plan by Georg Seld from 1521. In later centuries this helmet was missing and the gate had other roofs.

In 1619 the Stephingertor was completely demolished and rebuilt according to the plans of the city architect Elias Holl . At the beginning of the 18th century, the gate was destroyed in the War of the Spanish Succession and was not rebuilt afterwards. Only the entrance gate, which had survived the war, existed until 1880. In that year, however, this entrance gate was also demolished for reasons of space.

literature

  • Hermann Kießling: towers - gates - bastions . Brigitte Settele Verlag, Augsburg 1987, p. 64 .

Web links

Commons : Stephingertor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Weißhaar , small picture archive on the building history of St. Stephan , in: Ed. Egino Weidenhiller, Anton Uhl, Bernhard Weisshaar: Ad Sanctum Stephanum 969-1969. Commemoration for the millennium celebration of St. Stephan in Augsburg. 1st edition. Self-published by St. Stephan, Augsburg 1969, p. 78 ff .
  2. ↑ Bernhard Weißhaar , small picture archive on the building history of St. Stephan , in: Ed. Egino Weidenhiller, Anton Uhl, Bernhard Weisshaar: Ad Sanctum Stephanum 969-1969. Commemoration for the millennium celebration of St. Stephan in Augsburg. 1st edition. Self-published by St. Stephan, Augsburg 1969, p. 80 .
  3. ↑ Bernhard Weißhaar , small picture archive on the building history of St. Stephan , in: Ed. Egino Weidenhiller, Anton Uhl, Bernhard Weisshaar: Ad Sanctum Stephanum 969-1969. Commemoration for the millennium celebration of St. Stephan in Augsburg. 1st edition. Self-published by St. Stephan, Augsburg 1969, p. 80 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 38 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 1.8 ″  E