Graach Gate

The Graacher Gate is the only remaining gate of Rhineland-Palatinate town of Bernkastel- Kues. It is used as a museum of local history since 1985.

History

The city gate was built around 1300 as one of the former eight passages of the fortress in the north of Bernkastel. It takes its name from the neighboring Graach towards which performs the leading through the gate road. The gate and city walls were razed in 1689 by serving under Louis XIV of France General Montalt.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the city gate was rebuilt and made ​​lower. In 1714, we used it as a prison. Then arose in its interior apartments as well as a homeless shelter.

1985 decided the Kolping family to set up a museum with cultural and historical exhibits in Graacher goal. The last modification was building the gate in 2002 were used as replicas of the wooden doors.

Architecture

The Graacher gate has a baroque over-molded passage with a mansard roof, which dates from the first half of the 18th century. Originally the building reached a triple height, because there was a tower over the gate, which can be seen on prints from 1590 and has a helmet roof with corner towers. After renovations in the early 18th century, a lower building was constructed with Renaissance elements.

While the city outside notice the smooth, well-fortified structure of the gate, showing the building to the city side a cozy looking building with a hat -like skew Clothing, the structure of the neighboring building adapts.

Striking is the rectangular structure of the building. The optics of the ground floor is dominated by the built of red rustic ashlar massive arched shape of the passageway. Above the arch is a figure of the patron saint, St. Michael was mounted centrally in a niche. These monitors both the inputs and the output. When you are no longer the original figure, which now is located in Trier Diocesan Museum.

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