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Graacher Tor (City Gate and Local History Museum, Bernkastel-Kues)

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Graacher Tor (City Gate and Local History Museum, Bernkastel-Kues)

Graacher Tor (City Gate and Local History Museum, Bernkastel-Kues)

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    Location: Bernkastel-Kues, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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    June 11, 2020

    The old city gate, the only one of eight that is still standing. Today there is a local history museum in the city gate. You can well imagine how people used to go through it.

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      July 13, 2018

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



      The city gate was built around 1300 as one of the former eight passages of the city fortifications in the north of Bernkastel. It takes its name after the neighboring Graach, in the direction of the leading through the gate road. The gate and the city wall was demolished in 1689 by General Montalt, serving under Louis XIV of France.

      At the beginning of the 18th century, the city gate was rebuilt and lowered. In 1714 it was used as a prison. After that emerged in his interior apartments and a homeless shelter.

      In 1985, the Kolping Family decided to set up a museum of local history in the Graacher Tor with cultural-historical exhibits. The last building modification received the gate in 2002 as replicas of wooden wickets were used.



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        December 25, 2019

        Graacher Tor in Bernkastel-Kues was built around 1300 as a passage through the city fortifications in the north of Bernkastel. The name Graacher-Tor comes from the neighboring town, in the direction of which the gate leads to the eponymous town. Originally the gate was a high gate tower. After its destruction in the war, a two-story building with an arched passageway was built in the 18th century, the gate that has survived to this day. A prison was built on the Graacher Tor in 1734. Later, apartments and a homeless shelter were built here.

        It was decided in 1985 to set up a local history museum with cultural and historical exhibits in the Graacher Tor. The last modification to the building was carried out in 2002. Here the gate received replicas of the wooden gates that were installed.

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        zum-kurfuersten.de/wellnesshotel/mosel-und-freizeit/bernkastel-kues

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