Giebichenstein

This article explains the district of Halle (Saale); for the boulder near Stöckse see Giebichenstein (Stöckse) .

Giebichenstein district of Halle (Saale)
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Coordinates	51 ° 30 '9 "  N , 11 ° 57' 16"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '9 "  N , 11 ° 57' 16"  E.
Residents	10,496 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1900
Start-up	Jul 29, 961
Postcodes	06108, 06114
prefix	0345
Sub-municipality code	230
Transport links
Federal road
tram	7, 8

Giebichenstein (also called Giebichensteinviertel) has been a district in the north of Halle (Saale) on the east bank of the Saale in Saxony-Anhalt since its incorporation in 1900 . It is named after the Giebichenstein Castle located at the Saale Gorge . On December 31, 2019, 10,496 citizens lived in the district that belongs to the northern district.

history

The eponymous Giebichenstein Castle goes back to a settlement that already existed in the 9th century. From 1382 on, Giebichenstein Castle was the main residence of the Archbishops of Magdeburg. After the completion of Moritzburg Castle in Halle, Giebichenstein lost its residence status in 1503. Since then it has served as the administrative seat of the Giebichenstein Office , which encompassed a large part of the hall circle belonging to the Magdeburg Archdiocese . In 1680 the castle, village and Vorwerk Giebichenstein with the Saalkreis came to the Duchy of Magdeburg under Brandenburg-Prussian rule.

With the Peace of Tilsit in 1807, Giebichenstein was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia and assigned to the Halle district in the Saale department, where it belonged to the Neumarkt canton . After Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Leipzig , Napoleon's allied opponents liberated the Saalkreis in October 1813, which fell back to Prussia. During the political reorganization after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the place was attached to the administrative district of Merseburg in the Prussian province of Saxony and assigned to the Saalkreis.

In 1900 Giebichenstein was incorporated into Halle (Saale).

Attractions

Giebichenstein High School

The quarter is mainly characterized by Giebichenstein Castle, which in turn goes back to a settlement that already existed in the 9th century . For a long time, large parts of today's district were used as a cemetery in front of the city. The St. Bartholomew Church on the hill southeast of the castle with a small cemetery still bears witness to this function. At the beginning of the 20th century a school was built near the church, today's Giebichenstein-Gymnasium " Thomas-Müntzer ". There is also a secondary and elementary school in the immediate vicinity.

Reichardt's garden is directly adjacent to this area . The composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt had his own house with a large garden here since 1794, where poets and musicians of the Romantic era met, such as Goethe (to whom the so-called "Goethebank" reminds us), Tieck , Eichendorff , Brentano , Novalis , Achim von Arnim , Wilhelm Grimm , Jean Paul , Wackenroder , Carl Friedrich Zelter and many more. The property is therefore also known as the “ hostel of romance ”. The garden is characterized by very old trees, it contains very exotic trees for this time, such as the ginkgo . The garden has been owned by the city since 1902 and has been modified in size and shape over the past two hundred years. On the eastern side of the park is the currently unused Wittekind spa or salt bath , which in turn is adjacent to Halles Zoo . The west end on the banks of the Saale is formed by the district garden and to the north of it by the Klausberge with the Jahn cave . Architecturally interesting is the Giebichenstein bridge with the animal sculptures, which is of great importance in terms of traffic as one of the 2 hall crossings in the hall for vehicles.

The rest of the district is dominated by residential buildings. They document the most varied of styles, such as B. in Burgstrasse and historically very different events. The restaurant “Der Mohr” is a 400-year-old inn and the Volkspark is an example of a working class culture house from the early 20th century. On the southern border (Mühlweg) is the Diakoniekrankenhaus , which was built in 1868 as the first large hospital at the time, at the gates of the city of Halle.

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle

View of Giebichenstein Castle with the art college

The Burg Giebichenstein College of Art in Halle has been using parts of the castle as workshops and training rooms since 1922. The university currently uses several other buildings from the Giebichenstein district, such as the Neuwerk, for teaching. Well-known artists have taught at the university since 1915, so u. a. the founder Paul Thiersch , the painters Charles Crodel and Erwin Hahs , the sculptors Gerhard Marcks and Gustav Weidanz , the photographer Hans Finsler , the ceramists Marguerite Friedlaender and Gertraud Möhwald . Today around 1000 students study at the university in various subjects of art and design. The presence of the university resulted in a large variety of cafés and pubs in the Giebichensteinviertel as well as the inner-city pub scene. Two tram lines cross the district.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Ludwig Bartels (1846–1907), governor of the Prussian province of Saxony
• Oswald Boelcke (1891–1916), legendary fighter pilot in the First World War
• Magda von Dulong (1872–1950), pseudonym: Magda Lossen, concert singer
• Eduard Grüneisen (1877–1949), physicist
• Ludwig Heise (1815–1882), administrative and ministerial official, parliamentarian and entrepreneur
• Kurt Kempin (1874–1972), painter and set designer
• Johann Andreas Kraut (1661–1723), Brandenburg-Prussian entrepreneur, secret war council and minister
• Hans Achim Litten (1903–1938), lawyer, known for the Edenpalast trial of 1931 , died in the Dachau concentration camp
• Rudolf Mälzer (1881–1937), folk singer, comedian, female actor
• Franz Peters (1888–1933), politician (SPD)
• Hans von Raumer (1820-1851), politician
• Carl Friedrich Reichardt (1803–1871), architect and book author
• Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814), composer, music writer and critic
• Otto Streicher (1882–1945), architect and social democratic local politician, spent the entire period of National Socialism in concentration camps and died in Auschwitz
• Karl Völker (1889–1962), painter, graphic artist and architect
• Kurt Völker (1891–1972), painter and graphic artist
• Walther Leonhard Wangerin (1884–1938), botanist

Personalities associated with the place

• Friedrich von Tippelskirch (1802–1866), Lutheran pastor in Giebichenstein, founder of the popular Christian-conservative people's newspaper for town and country

See also : Joachim Arentsehe

• Otto Möhwald (1933–2016), painter and graphic artist

literature

• Peter Findeisen and Dirk Höhne: The village churches in Halle (monument sites - monument values ​​vol. 3). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum for Prehistory, Halle 2006, pp. 96–111. ISBN 3-939414-00-X

Web links

Commons : Giebichenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Chronicle of St. Bartholomew's Church

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Halle (Saale), Department of Residential Affairs: Halle in Figures 2019 . Published online at https://halle.de ( pdf , 173 KB) in 2020.
2. ^ The Giebichenstein Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 123f.
3. ^ Description of the Saale Department
4. ^ The hall circle in the municipality register 1900
5. ↑ Halle (Saale) and its districts on gov.genealogy.net