Highland Gate, the beginning of the Gdansk Royal Route
monuments
votes: 0
rating: 0
The main entrance gate to the Gdansk, originally located between Gdansk modern fortifications, built in 1571-1576 and designed by Hans Kramer. It's always this way they rode Polish kings coming to Gdansk. The gate was definitively established in 1588, so the first Polish king saw that it was Augustus III Waza. The designer of the gate was William van den Block, he gave her a beautiful rock decorations. The building was in the spirit of the Renaissance style, solid form of buildings referred to the gates of Antwerp-based Italian patterns. In the main part of the gate three inlets, the largest primary intended for vehicular traffic and two smaller ones on the sides for pedestrian traffic. The entrance and the entrance is flanked by double pilasters with Tuscan capitals. The entire floor decorated with rustication of hewn deep floral ornament. A very interesting element is the upper part of the building, the attic, we can say that a disproportionately high. There are structural reasons for such a solution, in this part of the building hid the weapon or defending trellis entrance to the city. The main decoration of the attic, is the so-called triad of Coats, the coat of arms entering the Republic supported by two angels, on the right arms of Gdansk supported by two lions and left arms of Royal Prussia, supported by two unicorns. The whole is crowned with four lions guarding the entrance to the city. At the end pilasters, there are three sentences in Latin, it is the influence of the prevailing fashion to place the ruling of justice, piety, peace, freedom and harmony: