Bessarabska Square
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 33 ″ N , 30 ° 31 ′ 15 ″ E
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 Map of Bessarabska Square |
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| place | Kiev |
| District | Shevchenko Raion |
| Created | 19th century |
| Hist. Names | 1874–1888 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Square University Square |
| Confluent streets | Khreshchatyk , Taras Shevchenko Boulevard , Chervonoarmiyska Street |
| Buildings | Bessarabska market hall |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , motor traffic |
The Bessarabska Square ( Ukrainian Бессарабська площа Bessarabska ploschtscha ) is a square in the center of the Ukrainian capital Kiev at the end of Khreshchatyk and Taras Shevchenko boulevard .
The central building of the square is the famous Bessarabska market hall . Bessarabska Square is one of the three squares on Khreshchatyk , along with Majdan Nesaleschnosti and European Square . With the PinchukArtCentre , the largest private museum in the former Soviet Union has been located on the square since 2006.
history
In the 18th century there was a cemetery of the Lutheran community of Kiev , a small lake and a stagecoach station in the place of today's square . At the end of the 18th century / beginning of the 19th century, a market was established here, where farmers from the Bessarabia region sold their goods, especially wine and fruit, and thus gave the square its name. In 1874 the square was renamed Bohdan-Khmelnyzkyj-Platz because the Bohdan-Kmelnyzkyj monument was to be erected here. After the monument was erected on Sophienplatz in 1888, the square got its old name again.
Bad hygienic conditions must have prevailed on the market at the end of the 19th century, so that one of the Kiev "sugar barons" bequeathed 500,000 rubles to the city for the construction of a market hall. The Warsaw architect Henrik Gai then built a 2500 m² market hall with a restaurant and hostel in the rational Art Nouveau style with elements of constructivism between 1910 and 1912 . The hall has a 15 m high glass roof and a facade decorated with reliefs with livestock and rural scenes. Today the hall is used by 360 stalls, shops and restaurants. A two-story entertainment complex and fast-food restaurants are located under the glass dome in front of the hall.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Günter Schäfer: "Kiev, tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr", 3rd edition 2011; Trescher Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pages 47-48
- ↑ on Bloomberg March 16, 2009 , accessed August 16, 2015
- ↑ Bessarabs'ka Platz on wek.kiev.ua , accessed on March 1, 2014 (Ukrainian)