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Ohrenbrücker Tor

Ohrenbrücker Tor

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Ohrenbrücker Tor

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Location: Ingelheim am Rhein, Mainz-Bingen, Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Vanessa

June 16, 2021

The Ohrenbrücke is one of the oldest streets in Ingelheim am Rhein. Around 1900, Edelgasse led through the stately Ohrenbrücker Gate and on to the Selz River. Even today, it's still a pleasure to walk through this impressive gate.

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Veronika 2020

April 10, 2022

INGELHEIM - Where did the ear bridge in Ober-Ingelheim get its name from? Actually quite banal, as Raimund Best from "Pro Ingelheim" explained during the themed tour around the Ohrbrücker Tor. "The two bridges that used to cross the Selz looked like ears." Today's crossing no longer has anything to do with this association; it was built much later. Before a bridge was built at the end of Edelgasse, over which wagons could also drive, the Selz was crossed in this area via a flat spot (ford). At high tide, however, the ford was impassable. allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/ingelheim/ingelheim/woher-die-ohrenbrucke-ihren-namen-hat_18045112

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🇺🇦Uwe 🏃‍♂️1098🏍

April 10, 2022

According to Heinrich A. Herbert, the free-standing north tower was "partially demolished around 1860 due to dilapidation" (p. 69), while the building connected to the south tower was demolished in 1903 to build the road and its bridge (1906). Before that, there was only a ford for the way through the gate and two small bridges over the mill ditch and the Selz River, suitable for pedestrians and donkeys and probably so strongly arched that they resembled eyelets or handles (also known as ôre in Middle High German). The people in the following picture are standing on the small bridge over the mill ditch, which was filled in in 1911. It merged with the (remaining) Selz River flowing from the lower right at the bottom edge of the picture.

The site of a (probably) old farm workers' settlement (of the monastery?) on the other side of the Selz River is still called "Ohrenbrück(e)" today.

In the Middle Ages and the early modern period, the gate, in addition to protecting the ford, the mill, and the monastery, probably also served to collect tolls and wine tithes. Whether it stood alone, like the Elsheim Gate, or was somehow connected to a defensive wall approaching from the north through the upper Ochsenborn remains unclear.
Source: ingelheimer-geschichte.de/index.php?id=512

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