Old fish market

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Old fish market, part of the street front in November 2017

The old fish market is an approx. 120 meter long inner-city street in the Hamburg-Altstadt district . The name is reminiscent of the historic fish market that had been in this area since the Middle Ages and was moved to St. Pauli at the end of the 19th century .

history

Hamburg's historic fish market has been located south of St. Petri Church and Hamburg Cathedral since around the 14th century , not far from “Salzhaus” and “Heringshaus”. In addition to fish, leather was also traded here.

After the cathedral was demolished in 1806, the northern part of today's “Domplatz” was rebuilt, including the construction of the Johanneum (1838/40). Because the noisy market in the immediate vicinity of the school was increasingly perceived as a nuisance, it was gradually relocated to St. Pauli from 1861. The southern part of the square, roughly between today's street Alter Fischmarkt (formerly the Sattler and Schmiedestrasse ), the Große and Kleine Reichenstraße as well as the Schopenstehl and the Brandstwiete , was redesigned in 1889. In the middle, a large fountain was built, at the top of which was a bronze statue of Charlemagne designed by Engelbert Peiffer , who is shown here as the founder of Hamburg. The original statue was melted down during World War I; a copy made in 1926 has been with the Kleiner Michel in Neustadt since 1977 .

This market was the forerunner of today's fish market in the Hamburg-St. Pauli .

  • "Vogelschaukarte" with the Visʃchmarck by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, around 1590

  • Excerpt from "Historic Plan Hamburg 1540" by EH Wichmann with the fish market at the time

  • Detail from Hamburg 1 Innere Stadt 1910 with the Johanneum instead of the cathedral

  • Fish market in 1884. Drawing by Johann Theobald Riefesell

  • Fish market around 1909 with Kaiser-Karl-Brunnen, Johanneum and St. Petri

  • Statue of Charlemagne with the Hammaburg at the Kleiner Michel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 220.

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 56 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 48.3"  E