Klostergasse (Altenburg)

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The house at Klostergasse 1 before the demolition, seen from the market

The Klostergasse in Altenburg is an alley in the historic city center of Altenburg, which opens into the southeast corner of the market square. It is part of the listed complex " Core city Altenburg with suburbs ". The demolition of the entire west side of the street with house numbers 1–5 by the Altenburg municipal housing association (SWG) in October 2011 made the street known throughout Germany.

history

Most of the buildings on the street date from the 19th century:

The houses at Klostergasse 1 and Klostergasse 3 were simple, three- to four-story solid buildings, the facades of which had been newly plastered in the 1960s. However, they still contained older components.

The four-storey residential and commercial building at Klostergasse 5 was built around 1870. With its side facing the Klostergasse, it formed the western boundary of the Altenburg market square. The north facade with 6 window axes delimited the street near the Brothers Church , which leads up to the Brothers Church . The solidly built and plastered facades were designed in the late classicist style of the Wilhelminian era . There was a slightly protruding base, a three-storey central zone and a severed with a cornice jamb . The floor plan of the street corner was designed as an octagon segment and the facade view was divided horizontally by storey and breast cornices and vertically by colossal pilasters. The three shop windows on the corner and the windows on the second floor had classicist window roofs.

On September 25, 2009, the Altenburg municipal housing company, which had acquired the entire block between Klostergasse , Bei der Brüderkirche and Topfmarkt over the years , presented the city council with a redevelopment concept that included a supermarket, a café and two parking levels and 37 apartments were to be built. For this purpose, all buildings including the individual monument at the Brothers Church 9 from 1753 should be demolished. The costs were estimated at € 5 million. The driving force behind the project was Altenburg's Lord Mayor Michael Wolf (SPD), who was also chairman of the supervisory board of the 100% municipal owned SWG. Afterwards there were violent protests in the city council as well as among the citizens and in the regional and national press. The responsible state curator, Holger Reinhardt , called for the buildings at Klostergasse 5 and Bei der Brüderkirche 9 to be retained and integrated into the building project. In November 2010, a group of experts on the protection of urban monuments from the Federal Building Ministry came to Altenburg and also unanimously agreed to preserve the houses.

As a compromise, the city finally promised to preserve the baroque facade of the house at Bei der Brüderkirche 9 . In March 2011, the city council passed a development plan with 22 votes to 15. In protest against this decision, the chairman of the Altenburg monument council, Andreas Gießler , announced his resignation on May 25, 2011. In October 2011, all the houses along Klostergasse and the Topfmarkt were finally demolished. On March 13, 2012, the initially supported baroque facade at the Brüderkirche 9 was removed for allegedly static reasons. In July 2012, after archaeological investigations had been carried out beforehand, the new building began, which was finally occupied in February 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Würker: SWG presents development concept for urban wasteland / monument demolition planned , Osterländer Volkszeitung , Gera, 25 September 2009
  2. ↑ Dankwart Guratsch: A prefabricated building is supposed to disfigure Altenburg's market square , Die Welt , Berlin, January 2, 2010
  3. ↑ Alexander Cammann: House warfare in Thuringia , Die Zeit , Hamburg, August 2, 2010
  4. ^ Mathias Grünzig: Baroque under the pickaxe. City destruction at state expense. In the Thuringian city of Altenburg, people do tabula rasa. , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Frankfurt, May 30, 2012
  5. ^ Anja Siegesmund: Altenburg / Erfurt: Visit to the State Conservator , siegesmund.info, Erfurt, September 20, 2010
  6. ^ Wolfgang Hirsch: An Altenburger Kulturstadt-Abbruch , Thüringer Landeszeitung , Erfurt, April 21, 2012
  7. ^ Petra Löwe: Baroque facade in Altenburg is being torn down , Ostthüringer Zeitung Altenburg, March 13, 2012
  8. ^ SWG: Municipal housing company concludes major project , Osterländer Volkszeitung, Gera, February 12, 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 5.8 "  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 53.7"  E