Vestnertor

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Castle moat and Vestnertor, around 1900
Vestnertor Bridge and Customs House (right)

The Vestnertor was the northern main gate to Nuremberg Castle .

History and present

The Vestnertor, also known as the Burgtor, enables access to the castle from the north and was also part of the northern Nuremberg city wall . The wooden Vestnertorbrücke leads over the moat to the gate entrance under the Vestnertorbastei, then a tunnel leads to the Schwedenhof and on to the clearance. This area was originally part of the Burggrafenburg. At the northern end of the Vestnertorbrücke is the former customs house, now called Hexnhäuslä .

The castle is occupied from 1100; In the middle of the 13th century the imperial city built the Vestnertor to control access to the castle. This was part of the power struggle with the burgraves. Until 1427, when they renounced their rights to the Burggrafenburg, the Burgraves had the right to the central castle hat at the Vestnertor, which was called “out to the country”. In 1445 the customs house, which is still standing today, was built on the Vestnertorbrücke . With the construction of the Vestnertor Bastion , the Vestnertor got its present form of a long tunnel. An older archway can be seen at the Burgamtmann's apartment.

The wall area between the castle and Maxtor is called the Vestnertor Wall . The street Vestnertormauer and the street Vestnertorgraben outside the city wall were named after this.

Vestnertor Bastion

Between 1538 and 1545 , the Vestnertorbastei (also called Sweden Bastion) was built together with the other castle bastions according to plans by the Italian architect and fortress builder Antonio Fazuni . The bastions were used as gardens from 1677 and were uniformly designed in 1856 by the head gardener Carl Effner . Georg Christoph Eimmart founded the first Nuremberg observatory at the Vestnertorbastei in 1678. On May 24, 2007, a memorial column for the astronomer was unveiled on the bastion.

The installation Once upon a time by Katja Then was shown at the Bastei 2007 as part of the Blue Night . The following years followed:

  • 2008 the sound and light symphony Lichtinseln
  • 2009 the installation Light Drops by Elke Harras
  • 2010 Art flu - infected by pep Berlin
  • 2014 Summer Planet Art Meadow - light installation by Petra Krischke

In the following years the whole castle was included in the projection installations.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.baukunst-nuernberg.de/epoche.php?epoche=Romanik&objekt=Burg
  2. ↑ Kaiserburg Nuremberg, official guide, 1994
  3. ^ Helge Weingärtner: Vestnertor . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 1139 ( complete edition online ).
  4. ↑ http://www.stadtgraben.nuernberg.de/images/artikel5.pdf
  5. ↑ http://naa.net/ain/haben/show.asp?ID=37
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ http://www.blauenacht.nuernberg.de/Archiv%202007
  8. ↑ http://www.blauenacht.nuernberg.de/Archiv%202008
  9. ↑ The Blue Night, 3./4. May 2019 / Nuremberg. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  10. ↑ http://www.blauenacht.nuernberg.de/Archiv%202010
  11. ↑ The Blue Night, 3./4. May 2019 / Nuremberg. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 30 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 34.2"  E