Andreasplatz (Hildesheim)
The Andreasplatz in Hildesheim is the place around the Hildesheim Andreaskirche . It is privately owned by the Evangelical Lutheran St. Andreas Congregation, but is open to the public and is now used as an alternative location for the weekly market .
history
From around the year 1000 to around 1250, Andreasplatz was the "new" market square in Hildesheim's old town. The economic center had previously been on the Alter Markt . This finally migrated further east to today's market place. The square was also used as a cemetery until 1810 . From 1195 to 1875 it was officially called Andreas-Kirchhof , and was also called Lutkemarkt around 1300 .
Buildings at Andreasplatz
The Andreasplatz and its immediate vicinity is or was, apart from the Andreaskirche itself, the location of several important buildings. The inverted Sugar Loaf was destroyed in the bombing of Hildesheim on March 22, 1945 , as was the Trinitatis Hospital and the pillar house . The old mint was raised by one floor in the course of the reconstruction. On the square, the Bugenhagen fountain commemorates the introduction of the Reformation in Hildesheim in 1542 by Johannes Bugenhagen , which started in the main parish church in the old town of St. Andreas. The everted Sugar Loaf was reconstructed in 2009-2010.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 4.7 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 58.5 ″ E