Königstor customs house
The Zollhaus Königstor is a guard and customs house built in 1836 by Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel and listed as a historical monument , which is located at number 75 on the upper Königsstrasse / corner Junkerstrasse in Aachen . It takes its name from the King's Gate , which was demolished by the French occupying forces in 1807 and was located at the same intersection, and from the King's Road leading out of town, the medieval “ via regia ”.
Instead of the city gates razed during the French occupation, new gates, simple lattice gates or iron chains were partly built in Aachen in the following decades. These checkpoints were used to collect customs and the newly built guard houses to accommodate the guards. The Königstor customs house was one of these new facilities and was used as a tax collection point with a municipal tax inspector until the 20th century.
To this building once belonged two stone Torpfeiler- spoils that as part of the reinvestment of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Parks in Aachen in 1910 there translocates have been and since then decorate the main entrance of the park.
After 1945 the Königstor customs house was initially a dairy shop, and since 2011 it has housed a massage and naturopathic practice.
Building description
.JPG)
The single-storey, two-axis structure is eaves . The rear wall, attached to a remnant of the Gothic city wall, consisted of a simple plastered surface. The current addition appears to be a later addition. A chimney protrudes from the gable roof. The door and window are framed by Leydel's typical pilasters and a profiled arch. The gable sides of the classicist rectangular building consist of a heavily tiered gable decoration over a large round arch with a formed keystone and spars , which is provided with separate windows and glazing in the upper and lower parts. The gable seems to rest on mighty pillars, which give the building a temple-like character, which is continued in the central jointed front pilaster and the arches.
The upper part of the former gate pillars, which are now standing on the slope pond, have six putty-up square devices for a presumed iron grating on the inside. The three-level substructure measures: 119 W × 50 H cm; 105 × 44 cm, 91.5 × 12.5 cm, the inside of the pillar 79 × 188 cm, outside: 119 × 188 cm. Leydel has modeled the upper end of the free-standing and tapering square pillar of its gable profile and placed a stone ball as a crown. The front and back are decorated with a victory wreath relief. Four wheel deflectors added later surround these spoils.
In 1977 the entry was made in the list of monuments:
Königstr. 75 1836 (A.F.F.Leydel); Klassizistisches Torhaus; die Torpfeiler heute am Zugang zum Kaiser-Friedrich-Park; an der Rückseite des Hauses ein Rest der gotischen Stadtmauer“.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Light and space concept Königsbrücken Aachen
- ^ Bruno Lerho : Old Aachen Buildings. Meyer & Meyer Aachen, 1996, pp. 117f.
- ↑ "State Conservator Rhineland. List of monuments. 1.1 Aachen city center with Frankenberg quarter. With the participation of Hans Königs , edited by Volker Osteneck. Rheinland Verlag Cologne, 1977, (Osteneck), p. 20.
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 29.7 ″ N , 6 ° 4 ′ 22 ″ E