Zeilitzheimer Tor
The Zeilitzheimer Tor (also Bachtor , address Am Zeilitzheimer Tor ) is an element of the fortification of the Lower Franconian Volkach . The gate was one of the first breaches that were made in the fortification in the 19th century and therefore symbolizes the dismantling of the closed walling.
history
The origin of the Zeilitzheim Gate is in the dark. As early as the 18th century, the citizens of Volkach began to build the kennels around their city. This was made possible because the city council and the prince-bishop of Würzburg , who had military sovereignty over the city, no longer invested anything in the fortifications from the late Middle Ages. The city wall slowly fell into disrepair, but still formed a closed ring around the city.
The only accesses to the old town were the two gates in the north-west and south. The trigger for the final demolition of the fortifications was the great city fire of 1804. On June 23, a fire broke out in today's Storchgasse, immediately next to the later Zeilitzheimer Tor, which destroyed almost a quarter of the entire old town. The extinguishing water supply could not be ensured through the two gates.
For the first time in 1804 the name "Neuer Torweg" appeared for a street in the northeast of the Volkach old town. It can be assumed that a breach was made in the old town immediately after the fire disaster or that a gap in the closed development that had already been created by the fire was kept open. In front of the city were the gardens of the citizens, which had been laid out in the former moats of the fortification since 1760 .
For decades, the Zeilitzheimer Tor only served as a passage and had no influence on the traffic development of the Volkach old town. From the middle of the 19th century, the demolition of the gate towers of the two older gate systems was discussed. The gate could be closed by two simple wooden gates that were fixed between the houses at Storchgasse 25 and Am Zeilitzheimer Tor 1. The preserved remains of the gate are classified as an architectural monument . Today the gate forms the northeastern beginning of the Volkach Old Town ensemble.
description
Unlike the two older gates in the north-west and south, which were built in the 16th century, the Zeilitzheimer Tor did not have a gate tower. Instead, the actual goal was attached to four rectangular goal posts. They were erected in a similar way to simple yard gate posts made of sandstone and end with the typical pine top . Some of them are now built into the adjacent buildings. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation assigns the goal posts to the 18th century.
literature
- Gerhard Egert: Great fires in Volkach in the 19th century . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1978-1992 . Volkach 2008. pp. 157-163.
- Gerhard Egert: City and Parish Volkach am Main (A contribution to the city history of Franconia). Part I. The urban territory from the beginnings to the end of the Old Kingdom in 1803. Diss . Volkach and Würzburg 1964.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Egert, Gerhard: Great fires in Volkach in the 19th century . P. 157.
- ^ Egert, Gerhard: City and parish Volkach am Main . P. 66.
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '3.9 " N , 10 ° 13' 39.2" E