Triumphal gate

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moscow Triumphal Gate in Saint Petersburg

In architectural parlance, the term triumphal gate is used to refer to representative gate structures of modern times , rarely also ancient ones, which - unlike a triumphal arch - either end with a horizontal architrave or are not free-standing, but are integrated into side walls or between other buildings and thus from were planned from the outset as a functional passage.

Examples

An ancient example is Hadrian's Gate in Antalya , which functions as a city gate .

The bridge gate in the Campanian city ​​of Capua, commissioned by the Staufer Emperor Friedrich II in the 30s of the 13th century and handed down in drawings and descriptions, but no longer existent, is to be mentioned from medieval times . The gate to the arsenal of Venice , built in 1460 in the style of the early Renaissance , is regularly referred to as the triumphal gate.

For modern times, the triumphal gates of the walled Breton parish districts, which were built in the 16th and early 17th centuries, and the central gate of the colonnades at the New Palais in Potsdam, built in the high Baroque style in the time of Frederick the Great in the 1760s, should be mentioned The passage called Argentarian Arch in honor of the Emperor Septimius Severus at the former Forum Boarium in Rome is modeled on. The triumphal gate at the Winzerpark, also built in Potsdam in 1850/51 , clearly refers to the ancient Argentarian arch. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (1788–1791) and the Moscow Triumphal Gate in Saint Petersburg (1834–1838) should also be mentioned in this context. An illustrative example also provides the built in 1817 Waterloo Gate in Osnabrück is a passage through the old city walls.

literature

Web links