Ulm Gate

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The Ulmer Tor from the direction of the Ulm suburb

The Ulmer Tor is a city gate of the Upper Swabian city ​​of Memmingen . It was also called the Outer Niedergassentor .

location

The gate is on the north side of the so-called Ulmer Vorstadt . At the gate itself, a piece of the historic battlement has been preserved. The Maximilian Kolbe House is in front of the gate .

Appearance

The style of the tall and narrow gate is typical of the time before the Thirty Years War . It has a gable roof . The modern painting shows a clock and the imperial eagle on the northern side . The entry of Maximilian I and his entourage in 1489 is shown on the inside .

history

History board at the Ulmer Tor (inside).

Around 1400 a new urban expansion was built in the north of the city, the Ulm suburb . After the wall was surrounded, the Ulmer Tor was built as the northern exit gate. The tower was not finally expanded until 1445. In 1489 Maximilian I entered his imperial city of Memmingen with a large retinue through the gate as the Roman-German king . The Oberschwäbische bunch came in the Peasants' War with 900 men through the gate into the city, and wrote there in the Kramer guild the Twelve items down, the first human rights declaration in the world. When Wallenstein entered the city from Ulm in 1630, he was also led through the gate to the Fugger building. The Swedes, in no way inferior to Wallenstein, moved into the city through the Niedergasse gate in 1634 and also resided in the Fugger building. When the imperial family again besieged and defeated the city in 1647, they moved through the gate into the city. In 1702 the goal was unsuccessfully defended against Bayern, but it remained undamaged. During the last great siege and capture of the city by the French, the gate was occupied by Austrians after their withdrawal. In 1821 the gate was blocked. Since then, the drawbridge and wooden gates have been missing.

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer : City and district of Memmingen (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 4 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1959, ZDB -ID 256533-X , p. 31 .

Web links

Commons : Ulmer Tor (Memmingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 20.2 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 48 ″  E