Bad Kreuznacher Neustadt
The Bad Kreuznacher Neustadt, also known as the old Neustadt , is a sight of the city of Bad Kreuznach and represents the medieval quarter of the city at the foot of the Kauzenburg .
location
The district is located on the western bank of the Nahe and, with its many restaurants, is home to the oldest still inhabited buildings in the city. The oldest buildings in Bad Kreuznach are located in this medieval district between Nahe and Ellerbach , but the older part of the city in terms of urban history is on the other, eastern bank of the Nahe.
history
There the Roman settlement vicus cruciniacum was founded, the later Frankish royal court of Kreuznach, which was under the rule of the Rhine Count .
When the Counts of Sponheim moved the seat of their county from today's Sponheim and Burg-Sponheim to Kreuznach in the 12th century , they built the Kauzenburg opposite the Roman-Franconian settlement on their area of a rocky outcrop above the Nahe . Below the castle, at the confluence of the Ellerbach and Nahe rivers, a new settlement soon grew up, which was also called Kreuznach. When the Sponheimers died out in the 15th century and the city later came under the rule of the Electorate of the Palatinate, the districts of Kreuznach, which had previously belonged to different rulers, were merged. The part of the city built in the 12th century was named Neustadt for better delimitation. The city center was there until the beginning of the 20th century . Today it lies over the old Nahe bridge in the old town.
nature
Despite a lot of demolition work in the many narrow streets of the district, the Neustadt is one of the most attractive parts of the spa town of Bad Kreuznach. She once hosted with
- Egg market,
- Fish market,
- Holzmarkt and
- Salt market next to the
- Kornmarkt in the old town main markets of the city.
Today the markets are part of an extensive restaurant district within the Neustadt. The Bad Kreuznacher Altstadtverein (which represents the dealers in the Neustadt) endeavors to rename the Neustadt to the old town due to its older building fabric. The city administration of Bad Kreuznach has given in to the fact that signs now point to the "historic old town" of Bad Kreuznach.
building
- In the new town there is also the house from the 15th century, which supposedly once housed the Magister Faust ( Doctor Faustus ). In fact, a Johann Georg Sabellicus Faust stayed here, as the Sponheim abbot Trithemius confirmed.
- the "old new town" on the western Nahe bank and the "new old town" on the east are connected by a historical bridge, which was rebuilt after being destroyed in the Second World War , with the bridge houses from the 15th century on its eastern part.
- Kreuznach's oldest surviving church of St. Nicholas from the 13th century
- the "Stadthaus", today still the town hall and official seat of the mayor, built in 1715 as the "Hundheimer Hof" and in 1766 passed into the possession of the Princess Amalie von Dessau.
literature
- Photo book: The old town is alive
- Illustrated: 50 years of the American armed forces in Bad Kreuznach , publisher City of Bad Kreuznach, May 2001
- further: home chronicle of the Kreuznach district , archive for German home care GmbH, Cologne 1966
- Photo book Bad Kreuznach and its surroundings in early photographs (1877 - 1930) by Nelli Schmidthals, Edition Sparkasse Bad Kreuznach 1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo book "The old town is alive - The Bad Kreuznacher Neustadt in transition" . stadt-bad-kreuznach.de. Archived from the original on January 11, 2013. Retrieved on August 13, 2012.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ' N , 7 ° 51' E