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The Holstein Gate Lubeck -Original antique steel engraving - Germany

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State: Normal (with signs of normal use)

Title: The Holstein Gate Lubeck. Artist: after Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (German, 1808 1894) Engraver: John Godfrey (British, 1817-1889). Size: 30x23,5 cms. Condition: mounted on passe-partout.

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The Holstein Gate Lubeck -Original antique steel engraving - Germany
Title: The Holstein Gate Lubeck. Artist: after Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (German, 1808 1894) Engraver: John Godfrey (British, 1817-1889). Size: 30x23,5 cms. Condition: mounted on passe-partout.

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Description: hand coloured antique steel engraving showing the Holstein Gate in Lubeck. The city gate was built between 1464 and 1478 along the lines of Dutch models. It served both as a form of defence and as a symbol of the citys prestige. Above the round-arched gateway entrance of the twin-towered construction, the inscription CONCORDIA DOMI FORIS PAX (unity within, peace without) can clearly be seen in golden letters. Nearly every visitor is astonished by its odd tilt and sunken South tower. As only the towers stand separately on a foundation consisting of a wooden grid with the heavy middle tract also resting on them, the towers subsided unevenly into the marshy ground. In 1863, the Holsten Gate looked an appalling sight. By a majority of just one single vote, the city parliament decided to restore the gate and began extensive restoration efforts. It wasn't until 70 years later that the subsidence could be stopped.