Berger Tor – Wikipedia

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The Berger Tor Was a city gate and part of the medieval and modern city fortification in Düsseldorf.

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From 1394 to 1396, the Berger Pforte was built with a tower on Berger Straße a little west of the confluence of Wallstrasse, expanded in 1449 and has been bricked up for security reasons since 1585. [first] The gate was temporarily opened to move the Jakobe from Baden for your wedding. In 1609, Elector Johann Sigismund had the Brandenburg coat of arms attached to the old Berger Pforte. In 1612 and 1614, floods and storms damaged the fortress plants and the unfinished citadel in the south of the city. Wolfgang Wilhelm called the master builder Antonio Serro from Graubünden (named Kraus ) to Düsseldorf, who started his work in Düsseldorf in 1620. The citadel should be expanded and connected to the city with the Citadellstrasse. The old Berger Pforte was demolished around 1620 after reinforcing the fortification with the end of the citadel.

As a replacement, a new Berger Tor was built at the southern end of Citadellstrasse (the north-south main street of the Zitadelle), the construction of which had already progressed at the end of 1620. Adolf von Kamp has been a master builder since 1621, mason Master Rutger von Mehrheim carried out the work. Serro returned to Neuburg an der Donau in 1623. [2] At the instigation of Elector Karl Theodor, the gate was representative in 1751 by the engineering major J. Hubert van Douwen. At the beginning of the “Prussian period” around 1817, rooms in the goal were also used as a police prison for some time. [3]

By announcing the district government in 1831, the Berger Tor should also be demolished in addition to the Rhine gate as part of the “old Bergerhafen” and the redesign of this area of ​​the old town. [4] While the Rhine gate was actually demolished at that time, this requirement was not carried out for the Berger Tor and postponed to later. It was only at the end of the 19th century the Berger Tor at the end of Citadellstrasse [5] perceived as an obstacle to a further expansion of the urban area. Against the will of the regional president, the building was released for demolition and laid down in 1895. [6] Today, markings in the pavement in front of the city museum are reminiscent of the established city gate.

The gate was a large, two -storey brick building.

Facade to Berger Allee [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The facade to Berger Allee was easier and showed a strong structure. There was a large Bergisches coat of arms in the arch.

  • Berger Tor, Fassade zur Berger Allee.

    Berger Tor, facade to Berger Allee.

  • Abbruch 1895

Facade to the Bäckerstrasse [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The facade, which was facing the Bäckerstrasse, shows rich plastic jewelry made of sandstone, which was created by Balthasar Späth and was recovered after the goal. The facade showed a window framed by warlike trophies. The keystone above the passage was decorated with a lion head and a helmeted war of war and was flanked on the side by trophies. Above the window, Spolia were attached to the initials of the Elector Karl Theodor and his wife.

  • Berger Tor, Fassade zur Bäckerstraße.

    Berger Tor, facade to the Bäckerstrasse.

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  • Berger Tor, Trophäe
  • Berger Tor, Trophäe
  • Berger Tor, Fenstereinrahmung

    Berger Tor, window frame

  • Berger Tor, Bogenabschlussstein

    Berger Tor, Archeblützlag stone

  • Architects and engineering association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, S. 84 f.
  • Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855-1914 , Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1990. Tafel 110
  • Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855-1914 , Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1990. Tafel 111
  • Theo Lücker: Düsseldorf – around the Karlstadt . Verlag Goethe-Buchhandlung Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1990, pp. 117–120 [Das Berger Tor. It was demolished in 1895].
  1. ↑ Karl Bernd cheer: The Düsseldorf cityscape I. 1585–1806. Düsseldorf 1983, (Images of the Düsseldorf No. 4) p. 4F
  2. ↑ Karl Bernd cheer: The Düsseldorf cityscape I. 1585–1806. Düsseldorf 1983, (picture books of the city museum Düsseldorf No. 4) p. 12f
  3. ↑ Steel, in: Guide Düsseldorf … On the … Historical representation of Düsseldorf, section of public buildings , 1817, editor: Mindel, Carl Heinrich August, S. [16] 8. Online edition
  4. ↑ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf region, in: Announcement of August 17, 1831 , 1831, No. 64, s. [404] 407. Online version
  5. ↑ View of the Berger Tor at the end of Citadellstrasse. On the left the houses No. 25 and 27. , Photo julius slices, on the 1890, town archive mark
  6. ↑ https://www.duesseldorf.de/stadtarchiv/stadtgeschichte/zeitleiste/zeitleiste-07-1880-bis-1900/1895.html

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