Alter Hof (Leipzig)
Alter Hof was the name of a residential and commercial building in Leipzig . It stood at Reichsstrasse 27 / corner of Böttchergäßchen and was destroyed in the Second World War.
The three-storey building was a Renaissance building from 1603. A bay window rose over a round arched portal over two floors. The courtyard was surrounded on three sides by arcades typical of the time it was built.
An extensive renovation took place in 1928, with the coffered ceilings of the wooden galleries being decorated with pictures of old Leipzig and portraits of people from Leipzig's city history . Only now did the name “Alter Hof” become common. It wasn't the oldest in town, but it was one of the best preserved.
The building was completely destroyed in an air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . The north-eastern corner of the residential block between Reichstrasse and Katharinenstrasse, built between 1962 and 1964, is now located here .
literature
- Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 14/15 .
- Sebastian Ringel : How Leipzig's inner city disappeared. Self-published Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-948049-00-3 , p. 126
- Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig. (= Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig , Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 67
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 29.9 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 35.1 ″ E