Bach district

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The creek area (also Bachstraße quarter ; first as a "quarter at Johanna Park known") is a founder time stamped residential area in the outer Leipzig West suburbs around the central Sebastian Bach street , after which it is named. It was built in the middle to the end of the 19th century ( historicism ) as a city ​​extension between Ferdinand-Lasalle-Straße and Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße and is particularly well preserved with its block perimeter development and its villas next to the Waldstraße district . The history of church music in Leipzig in particular is closely linked to the Bachviertel, it is home to the Forum Thomanum educational campus .

Julburg on Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse

Zoning plan

Decisive for the development of the inner west and south suburbs of Leipzig was the flood protection within the scope of the realized Pleißeflutkanal and the drainage of floodplain areas in the middle of the 19th century.

In 1870 a "south-western development plan [] " and in 1877 an overall plan were submitted, according to which two new urban areas, namely the Bach and the music district , were to be created. These were implemented at the end of the 19th century in the Johannapark and König-Albert-Park (today part of the Clara-Zetkin-Park ).

The Bachviertel was built as a residential area that offers selective commercial space in the courtyards. At public institutions were two schools, say Thomas School and IV. Civil school and two churches, speak Luther Church and Anglo-American church provided. The quarter has a rectangular floor plan and extends from the Alte Elster in the northwest over Ferdinand-Lassalle-Straße (formerly Bismarckstraße ) in the southeast and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße (formerly Weststraße ) in the northeast to the Elster flood basin in the southwest. A closed perimeter block development was chosen, the representative tenement houses of which are four and five storeys high. Sebastian-Bach-Strasse forms a central axis. Side streets of this lead into an open villa structure.

Chronicle of the development

Gustav-Mahler-Strasse 2

The most original development in the district took place in 1855 at Gustav-Mahler-Strasse 2 , near Schreberstrasse . In the 1870s, quarters in the area of Moscheles and Hauptmannstraße were realized. The first villas were built from 1870 on the busy Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse (formerly Plagwitzer Strasse ), which connects Leipzig city center with Lindenau and Plagwitz . That construction phase was completed in 1875.

The southern part of the quarter is considered to be "particularly impressive in terms of urban development", as there was a closed development with middle-class houses there from 1881 to 1888, the facades of which are splendidly designed and which are themselves equipped with enclosed front gardens .

Structural features

Construction gallery

Architecturally, the Villa Gebhardt ( Arwed Roßbach 1880), the Villa Meyer and the Haus Pommer ( Max Pommer 1886), today's Thomas School (Lüders 1879) - Viehweger's building from 1877 was destroyed in the war - and the Thomasalumnat ( August Friedrich Viehweger 1881 ), today's Villa Thomana (Max Pommer 1883) and the Luther Church ( Julius Zeißig 1886).

  • Villa Gebhardt

  • Villa Meyer

  • House Pommer

  • today's St. Thomas School

  • St. Thomas School destroyed in the war

  • today's Villa Thomana

  • Luther Church

Villa plots

Among other things, the following wealthy personalities, first and foremost publishers, who had villas built in the Bachviertel in the 19th century, should be mentioned; From the 1990s onwards, the villas were renovated many times, taking into account the preservation of historical monuments :

Forum Thomanum

Individual buildings around the Thomas School and Alumnat are part of the international arts education center Forum Thomanum. Street names in the Bachviertel were chosen accordingly after the Thomaskantors Johann Sebastian Bach , Moritz Hauptmann and Johann Adam Hiller . As usual in the 19th century, the road network was given a grid system.

Lost substance

The Anglo-American church was destroyed in the course of the Allied air raids on Leipzig in 1943.

literature

  • Barbara Bechter et al. (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony II (administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz), founded by Georg Dehio , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , pp. 541–544.
  • Christoph Kühn: Bachstrasse district and music district: a historical and urban study . On behalf of the City Planning Office, ed. by Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 1999.
  • Sabine Knopf: Book City Leipzig: the historical travel guide . Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-634-5 , pp. 74 ff.
  • Vera Danzer, Andreas Dix: Leipzig - A regional history inventory in the Leipzig area . Ed .: Haik Thomas Porada . 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22299-4 , pp. 187 f .
  • Annette Menting : Leipzig: Architecture and Art . Reclam's Universal Library No. 19259, Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-019259-7 , p. 134.

Web links

Commons : Bachviertel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Danzer & Dix (2015), p. 187 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Menting (2015), p. 134.
  3. ↑ a b c d Bechter et al. (1998), p. 541 f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 7.5 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 28.8 ″  E