Beguinenhaus (Leipzig)

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The old beguine house
The Geutebrück building

The Beguinenhaus was a historical building of the University of Leipzig at Universitätsstrasse 7-9 that was expanded several times . It was destroyed by bombs in 1943.

history

After the dissolution of the Beguinage in 1540 as a result of the Reformation , its house on Alten Neumarkt (today Universitätsstraße) , which was owned by the Dominican monastery of St. Pauli, initially fell to the city council, which in 1545 assigned it to the university. The half-timbered house from the 15th century with its cantilevered floors was used as a residence for professors. In 1834 the medical and surgical polyclinic moved into the Beguinenhaus.

It was rebuilt until 1855. In 1855/56 Albert Geutebrück built a new Beguine house on behalf of the university on the property of the old Beguine house and its northern neighboring property (Becksche House) after both houses had previously been demolished. The new house had four floors and shops on the first floor. The floors contained collections and seminars for ancient, medieval and modern history as well as for classical philology, experimental psychology and German studies. The "Academic Reading Room" was on the first floor.

The Böhrsche House, which is adjacent to the south and acquired by the university in 1854, was also re-listed, but not yet merged with the Beguinenhaus. That only happened in 1895/95 with the new building by Arwed Roßbach , who had both houses demolished for this purpose. The Beguinenhaus now took up the entire space between the Vorderpaulinum and the Golden Bear . In addition to rented shops on the ground floor, the academic reading hall was again represented. But the Pedellswohnung and the detention of the likewise demolished Senate buildings were now housed here. In 1943 the Psychological and Germanic Institutes were also represented.

The Beguinenhaus suffered a total loss due to the bombing on December 4, 1943 . Now, set back from the street, the university seminar building stands in its place.

literature

  • Senate Commission for Research into the History of Leipzig University and Science (Ed.): History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 , Volume 5: History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-305-1
  • Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 81/82

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig p. 82
  2. ^ History of the Children's Polyclinic
  3. ↑ History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , p. 679
  4. ^ History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , p. 155
  5. ↑ University building history

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 18 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 40 ″  E