ditch and rampart
- was front wall
- long narrow depression in the ground
- artificially
- enclosed city in whole or in part
- The ditch was always part of Wall
- Sometimes several ditches and banks in turn
- almost impossible to achieve wall
- Eisenberg is on plateau à secure protection to three pages
- Despite Wall-ditch
- Before castle are ditch and clearly established a late Marie still hear
- Today's Garden Street in position to build on the former city moat was
- side of the stone gate was in the city on flat terrain à
easy to attack - no traditions / Maps / street names
à Wall-grave system along the present Old Gera road over Trumpeter Lane, Great Brühl + Fabrikstraße moved - parallel to the walls
3.4.1 The Stone Gate
- at the beginning of the Steinwegs
- 1277 first mentioned.
- the oldest and formerly the only gate of Eisenberg was
- 1690 support Duke Christian construction of a tower
- the building of the stone door: home of the city watchman that the night watchman and the accommodation of the city guard
- In June 1839 because of Dilapidation demolished
- floor plans, from the city in the pavement marked + Informationsschild
- disagreements over the exact location of the stone gate
- Mr Peter's testimony, he could show us not against
- We: a few meters towards the market, available on line between remains of the walls
first should build defend and unfavorable
second place adjoining houses no evidence of a former cultivation give
third Cadastral map was created shortly after the demolition of the stone gate entrance to the courtyard
property of the library building à
4th undated oil painting shows not unknown painter ā right perfume Grünler
5. Engraving - shows the stone gate Brühl
6th Map of the Historical Society
course walls Stone Gate - Leipziger Tor
- the courtyard of the library
- renovated wall section with the sign "Historic City Wall: Renovated in 1998 with Urban Development - Grants"
- Cadastral Plan A until the junction Kornmann Road - Factory Road - Leipzig gate
- Ancient wall remains confirm the course (property boundaries)
- Cadastral map - interesting: curvature of the walls in the street
Kornmann - see the outside wall pieces - retaining walls? Especially high city wall remains of a watchtower?
- Between Kornmann and Leipziger Str-alley Historical Society on a width of five houses on the route of the Wall "unsafe" before they "identified" as the Leipzig gate followed. The cadastral map (s.Abb.III.4.3 / 2), however security and development follows this course.
IV Conclusion
- Eisenberg has remains of a fortification from the 12th Century.
- about one meter thick and three to six feet high sandstone wall
- enclosed the city in the form of a rounded triangle
- min originally the main gate, Nebentor. 2 pedestrian passages, a few Watchtowers
- as a basis research documentation of the Historical Society
- can trace in much of the course of the city wall
- found additional evidence
- some new findings
- in the areas of Leipzig gate to the middle lane in Wächtergasse and especially on the castle grounds
- In the north, was built a castle, which distinguishes itself from the town and a fortified gate with its own gatehouse, Tortunnel and had kennel.
- new insights into the castle in the context of the city wall
- At the gate of Long Street are open questions
- The position of the gate in this area, which stated the Historical Society was, however, refuted
- approaches to Eisenberger coat of arms, because it could represent the old castle Eisenberger.
- city walls is mostly demolished, built over spilled or
- achieved our goal through the combination of many different facts with known safe and unsafe source
- the history of Eisenberger walls in our work completely and accurately determined
- surveys, excavations and building analysis , studies of how far portions of the walls nor the original of the 12th century come close, would bring evidence
- our work as a basis for further investigation of interested citizens and city walls owner
- useful information for institutions such as city information, museum, heritage and building office.
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