Ambrosiusplatz

Ambrosiusplatz (2017), view from the south

View of the front of the Ambrosius Church, 2009

The Ambrosiusplatz is a listed place in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is centrally located in the Sudenburg district of Magdeburg and forms the center of the urban area. To the south, the square is affected by Halberstädter Straße , the main street in Sudenburg. From the northwest which leads Hesekielstraße one of the square. For memorials include the Land Ambrose Place 1, 1a, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and Halberstadt Road 140 and 142. As a single monuments include the St. Ambrose Church , the houses Ambrose Place 2 , 3 , 5, 5a –D and Ambrosiusplatz 7, Halberstädter Straße 142 as well as the fire station Sudenburg and the town hall Sudenburg (Halberstädter Straße 140) to the monument area.

Design and history

The rectangular square was planned as part of the re-establishment of the Sudenburg, which began in 1812. It was projected as the center of the orthogonally planned street system and built in 1813/14 as the market square of Sudenburg. The square is dominated by the neo-Gothic St. Ambrose Church, which stands almost in the middle. The first church was consecrated there in 1822. The current church was built between 1875 and 1877. In front of the church there were markets, especially cattle and horse markets. Today the Sudenburg Christmas market is held here every year .

Today's rebuilding of the square comes from different construction phases. The older, still existing buildings were partly built in the first half of the 19th century and are one to two storeys high and covered with crooked or saddle roofs. The more recent development dates from the Wilhelminian era and consists of four-story residential and commercial buildings.

There is a stumbling block for Elisabeth Rauch (1875–1942) in front of the Ambrosius Church.

In the local register of monuments , the site is listed as a monument area under registration number 094 81915 .

The square is one of the few historical squares in the city that have largely been preserved in their original form. It is significant in terms of town planning and regional history, as it is on the one hand a testimony to the Napoleonic era and on the other hand a document of the Wilhelminian development as an industrial city.

literature

• Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , p. 76 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nadja Gröschner, Dieter Niemann, A street with character and history, Halberstädter Straße in Magdeburg , dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 2007, ISBN 978-3-938380-57-4 , p. 99
2. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , p. 2748 f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 34.1 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 53.8"  E