Anger (Passau)

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Anger
Independent city of Passau
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 40 ″  E
Anger (Bavaria)
Anger

Location of Anger in Bavaria
The Anger at the top right of the oblique aerial photo
The Anger at the top right of the oblique aerial photo
Districts of the old town:
1: old town center
2: Neumarkt
3: Anger
4: Bschütt
5: Oberhausberg
Anger east of Eggendobel in the northeast area of ​​the historical map sheet

The Anger is an unofficial part of the old town of the independent city of Passau in Lower Bavaria .

location

The Anger lies as a narrow strip on the north bank of the Danube . It is bounded in the north by the Georgsberg , in the east by the Ilz breakthrough and in the west by the canalised Bergfriedbach.

history

The area north of the Danube originally served only as a pasture until a small settlement of fishermen, boat builders and winegrowers emerged in the 13th century. The connection to the old town was initially provided by a ferry, until a bridge over the Danube was built in 1278. The center of the street village was immediately east of the bridge and then expanded to the west. In 1388 the Anger, like the Innstadt, was burned down by Austrian troops and in 1482, like the Ilzstadt, it was damaged by shelling from the Oberhaus fortress .

The Anger formed its own quarter with a quarter master. In the town fire of 1680, the Anger was also affected, as the fire spread over the wooden Danube bridge. Since the 17th century, the Anger only comprised the row of houses at the foot of the Oberhauser steep face without Eggendobl and the free property on the southern slopes that had come to the Oberhaus district court with Hacklberg . At the end of the 18th century, basic rights in the suburb of Anger were shared by the Innpropstgericht, the Niedernburg monastery and the St. Johann hospital . The Anger has been connected to the Ilzstadt via the Felsentor since 1762. When the tax district of Passau was formed in 1808, a separate Anger section was formed (alongside Passau, Innstadt and Ilzstadt). The Angertor in the west, built around 1250, was demolished in 1823. From 1870 the Maximiliansbrücke connected the Anger with the old town. The western section of Angerstrasse has been called Parkstrasse since 1910.

Until the regional reform in Bavaria with the incorporation of the communities Hacklberg and Grubweg in 1972, the Anger remained an outpost of the city of Passau on the north bank of the Danube. Before the renovation work between 1968 and 1976, it was a very densely populated district: There were seven inns, two grocery stores, a butcher, a bakery, the Zellner grocery store and the Barnessoi coal store. When the renovation work began, many buildings were demolished, not a few of these facilities had to close and numerous residents were relocated. Since the Max Bridge was demolished in 1971, the Anger has been connected to the other side of the Danube by the eight-lane Schanzl Bridge. Only the northern row of houses has been preserved, while the southern row had to give way to traffic. Angerstraße was expanded to four lanes in 1976 and has been a busy city street ever since.

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