Gatehouse on Erfurter Strasse

The gatehouse on Erfurter Straße is located at Erfurter Straße 1 in Weimar . It was built between 1822 and 1824 according to plans by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray as a gatehouse for the collection of road tolls . A previous building, the Erfurter Tor , was part of the city fortifications and was on the side of today's Karl-Heine-Straße.

The single-storey classicist building with a central gable and two columns without fluting in front of the entrance niche, covered with a hipped roof , is located between Erfurter Strasse and Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Strasse. The front is designed as a classical mock facade . Over the semicircular window on the upper floor there is typical classical wall decoration, consisting of a Corinthian helmet and a sword. Among them are the grand ducal coat of arms and the city arms of Weimar. There is a triglyph frieze above the columns and architrave . This in turn refers to models of the Doric order .

Coudray built another similar building in 1822 with the gatehouse on Frauenplan . But that one has no pillars in front of the entrance area like this one.

From 1887 the gatehouse was the train station on the Weimar – Kranichfeld railway line . In 1908 the branch line from Berka train station was stopped. This was followed by the dismantling of the tracks that were previously used to transport materials for the Weimar National Theater . It was also a stop for the Weimar tram . Later it was used as a police station, residential building or as a travel agency. In 2009/10, the renovation was carried out in accordance with the listed buildings by a private investor.

The building is a listed building .

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Helga Dreher wrote a novel about this gatehouse .

Web links

Commons : Torhaus an der Erfurter Straße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Erfurt Gate. In: Annette Seemann: Goethe's Places in Weimar. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-458-76432-8 . (books.google.de)
• Architektur-bildarchiv.de
• geo.viaregia.org
• weimar-lese.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rolf Bothe: Coudray 1775-1845. A German classicist architect. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, p. 416 f. ISBN 978-3-412-20871-4
2. ^ Christiane Weber: Investor restores Coudray's gatehouse in Weimar. In: Thuringian General . November 19, 2009, accessed January 9, 2020 . 
3. ↑ [1] List of monuments of the independent city of Weimar with the districts Ehringsdorf, Gaberndorf, Gelmeroda, Legefeld (including Holzdorf), Niedergrunstedt, Oberweimar, Possendorf, Süßenborn, Taubach, Tiefurt, Tröbsdorf . As of December 15, 2017.
4. ↑ Helga Dreher: The gatehouse. Bertuch Verlag, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-937601-76-2 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 46.5 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 22.3 ″  E