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Old Kellertor Guardhouse

Old Kellertor Guardhouse

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Location: Brandenburg, Germany

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November 9, 2020

The cellar gate, named after the cellar street leading to the electoral wine cellar (today: Heilig-Geist-Straße), was one of a total of ten historic Potsdam city gates. Together with the remains of the city wall from 1722 in Grosse Fischerstraße and the beginning of the city canal, the construction marked the city's eastern access to water.

Two grenadiers and a royal tax officer were stationed in the imposing cellar gate guard with its ten pillars, who levied excise duties (VAT) on goods imported by sea. After they were abolished, the Potsdam city gates were used to collect meal and slaughter taxes until 1909. After giving up its use as a wheelhouse, the city maintained a kind of water freight yard at the cellar gate, and the gatekeeper house itself was rented to a forwarding company.

In 1945 a Russian grenade destroyed the station; the remaining portico was demolished around 1960 - like many war-damaged buildings in Frederick's Potsdam - on behalf of the magistrate. In 2015 the city sold the property to a private owner with the requirement that the house be reconstructed true to scale and profile. Since its completion in 2017, it has now been used as a residential building. A small public park is located on the top of the cellar gate behind the guard house, the former urban port on the eastern side of the city canal.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellertor

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Location: Brandenburg, Germany

Old Kellertor Guardhouse

1. View of Babelsberg Palace – Glienicke Bridge loop from Potsdam Hauptbahnhof

2. Babelsberg Park – View of Babelsberg Palace loop from Nauener Vorstadt

3. Mouth of the Nuthe River – View of Heilig-Geist Church loop from Teltower Vorstadt

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