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Tiergärtnertor, 2010
Tiergärtnertorturm, 2017

The Tiergärtnertor in Nuremberg is a gate and part of the Nuremberg city ​​wall . The name of the gate has its origin in a former game reserve of the burgrave in the nearby city moat.

Location and surroundings

Tiergärtnertorplatz (2017)

The gate is located south of the Kaiserburg and northwest of the Tiergärtnertorplatz, a popular tourist destination in the old town of Sebald . From there, four lanes radiate down the mountain. The gate is surrounded by an ensemble of half-timbered houses and sandstone buildings, including the Albrecht Dürer House and the so-called Pilatus House . His address is Neutormauer 27 , the old name for the gate tower was Green N .

history

The pointed arch Tiergärtnertor consists of a gate tower with a square base, the origin of which is estimated to the late 13th century and one Barbican as Vorwerk had. It was the main gate to Nuremberg towards the north-west. This is where the routes to Erlangen , Bamberg , Thuringia and Saxony began . Two upper floors with a polygonal core were added in 1516. When the castle bastion was rebuilt in the middle of the 16th century, the Vorwerk disappeared; to the west a driveway was established that leads through a curved tunnel; the original gate was bricked up. In 1894 the outer gate was greatly enlarged. The Germanisches Museum used the Tiergärtnertorturm from 1852 as a depot for its first exhibits.

The Tiergärtnertor is a station on the Nuremberg Historic Mile .

Historical illustrations

  • Albrecht Dürer on the balcony of his house, on the left the Tiergärtnertor and the Tiergärtnertorturm. Painting (1854) by William Bell Scott.

  • Tiergärtnertor and the Tiergärtnertorturm, photograph from the 1890s

  • Tiergärtnertor and the Tiergärtnertorturm, postcard around 1900

  • City moat and Tiergärtnertorturm, postcard around 1900

literature

Web links

Commons : Tiergärtnertor  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 27.4 ″  E