Old Town Market (Hanau)
The old town market was the center of the medieval Hanau old town .
The seat
It was also the traffic center of medieval Hanau . This only had two city gates, the butcher 's gate and the market gate . The north-south connection led via the old town market from the castle to the market gate, from where the long-distance road to the east, the Via Regia, continued, and local traffic to Kinzdorf and the Main took place. The east-west connection from the Marienkirche to the Metzgertor, and later the Hospitalstrasse and the suburb, to Kesselstadt and Frankfurt am Main also led via the Hanauer Markt.
Compared to the narrow, winding streets of the old town, the old town market was large and spacious, surrounded by half-timbered houses , of which the old town hall (today: German goldsmith's house ) was the largest building. The weekly market took place here, which was protected by a town charter privilege from King Albrecht I of February 2, 1303, still exists and takes place today on the market square of the Neustadt Hanau . The market square in the old town was also the center of public life: The pillory and the official length for the market, the Hanauer cubit (54.38 cm) , were located at the old town hall .
The Old Town Market is now the second most northerly of a series of squares that line up almost axially through the old and new town of Hanau. From north to south these are: Schlossplatz , Altstädter Markt, Freiheitsplatz , Neustädter Markt , Französische Allee and Hafenplatz .
The Old Town market is historically legally after the Hessian Denkmalschutzgesetz part of the overall plant Old Town Freedom Square .
Buildings
German goldsmith's house
The German Goldsmith's House was built as a half-timbered building on the long side of the Old Town Market between two stone gable walls and on a stone base. It comes from the late Gothic and early Renaissance and is dated to the year 1538 by an inscription on the building. After the city administrations of the old town and the new town of Hanau were merged in the third decade of the 19th century, the building became superfluous as a town hall. From the end of the 19th century until the Second World War , it served as the museum of the Hanau History Association . The German Goldsmith's House was founded in 1942 and was based here. During the air raids on Hanau in 1945, the building burned down to the foundation walls and the two stone gable walls. The half-timbering that can be seen today is a reconstruction from the years 1955–1958. Today changing exhibitions, especially jewelry presentations, are shown here.
For details see: German goldsmith's house .
Well of Justice
In the middle of the square, in the central axis in front of the German Goldsmith's House, stands the Justice Fountain , which Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg had built in 1611. The current fountain is to be rebuilt, as the fountain was removed in 1767 - probably as an obstacle for the parading military. The fountain was restored in 2016: a missing hand of the Justizia figure was replaced and she received a new sword and new scales.
Oldest town hall in the old town
The functional predecessor of today's German goldsmith's house as the town hall of the old town of Hanau from the 15th century, the playhouse , stood on the western side of the market square ( Am Altstädter Markt 1 ). A plaque on the house standing there today reminds of this. Nothing is left of the original medieval building today.
literature
- 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main, ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978. ISBN 3-87627-242-4
- Magnus Backes: Hessen. Handbook of German Art Monuments ("Dehio"). 2nd edition 1982. ISBN 3-422-00380-0
- Heinrich Bott: The old town of Hanau. Building History House Directory Pictures. A memorial book for the 650th anniversary of the old town of Hanau . Hanau 1953.
- Martin Hoppe : Hanauer street names , Hanau 1991. ISBN 3-87627-426-5
- Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9
- August Winkler and Jakob Mitteldorf: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Hanau. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Neustadt Hanau . Hanau 1897
- Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919. ND 1978. ISBN 3-87627-243-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carolin Krumm, p. 80f.
- ↑ Carolin Krumm, pp. 139f.
- ↑ Monika Müller: Complete again . In: Frankfurter Rundschau v. June 29, 2016, SS R17.
- ↑ Carolin Krumm, pp. 140f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '12.6 " N , 8 ° 55' 2.9" E