Hamburg, Millerntorplatz.

59.


                                        Colored etching with ornamental border.

              B. S. Berendsohn.  J. Gottheil. del.   Poppel u. Kurz sculp. Das Millernthor in Hamburg.
                                              Hamburg, B. S. Berendsohn, [ca. 1845].

                              Kolorierter Stahlstich mit ornamentaler Bordüre nach J. Gottheil
                                                       gestochen von Poppel u. Kurz.

                                                                   Underhand decor.

               View on the on a summer evening high traffic Millerntorplatz,
               with the tower of St. Michael's Church in the background.
               The Millerntorplatz (originally Mildradistor or Mildertor),
               the western of the Hamburg city gates and connection to the suburb of
               St. Pauli and the neighboring town of Altona,
               was demolished in 1806 during the French occupation,
               then in 1819 by Carl Ludwig Wimmel (1786-1845) was a newly built door
                the system, of which the northern guardhouse until now remained.
               For the painter Julius Gottheil, 1850-1864 in Hamburg, see The New Rump.