Lower arch
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '57.8 " N , 8 ° 43' 35.7" E ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-seven thousand and forty-one / 261,754
The lower arch , also known as the Käfigtor , Käfigturm , Zeittor , Zeitbogen or Zeitglocken ( tower ) due to its later use , was the old west gate of the city of Winterthur . After the construction of the new lower gate at the entrance to the western suburb, the gate tower was used as a prison from 1340 to 1814; In 1529 he received a roof turret with an hour bell and a clock with a large dial on the east side to read the equinox hours and a smaller one below to represent astronomical hoursApparitions. During the redesign of 1669, the tower was reduced in height and provided with a baroque facade painting, which surrounded the dials with a columnar architecture and the half-figures of the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Ptolemy .
By resolution of the municipal assembly on October 30, 1870, the last two city gates of Winterthur were demolished in the following year with the lower and upper arches ; the then city architect Karl Bareis resigned his office in protest and left the city. The clockwork from the clock tower made of wrought iron by Laurenz Liechti , including the astronomical dial, was first stored in the town hall , later kept in the Mörsburg and is now exhibited in the Lindengut Museum. The rotation of the sun and moon and their aspects , the moon phases and dragon points , the signs of the zodiac and the temporal hours are displayed by means of four pointers .
literature
- Emanuel Dejung, Richard Zürcher, Hans Hofmann: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich VI: Winterthur / Supplements to the City of Zurich. Basel 1952, p. 31 f.
- Adolf Schenk: The astronomical clock of the clock tower in Winterthur. Published as the 78th New Year's sheet of the Hülfsgesellschaft Winterthur. Winterthur 1941.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unterer Bogen, Marktgasse im Winterthur Glossary.