Hamburg, Millerntorplatz

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                                        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 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 westernmost of the Hamburg city gates and a 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 remains until now.
               For the painter Julius Gottheil, 1850-1864 in Hamburg, see The New Rump.