Brothers Grimm Square
| Brothers Grimm Square | |
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 Landesmuseum Kassel, right gate guard (6) |
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| Basic data | |
| place | kassel |
| District | center |
| Created | Late 18th century |
| Confluent streets | Obere Koenigsstrasse, Wilhelmshöher Allee, Weinbergstrasse, Humboldtstrasse |
| Buildings | Hessian Administrative Court, Hessian State Museum, Wallpaper Museum , Murhard Library |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
The Brüder-Grimm-Platz is located in Kassel ( North Hesse , Germany ). The place is named after the Brothers Grimm , who lived here for some time. The square was long considered one of the top addresses in Kassel, where the emancipated upper middle class and the Hessian court lived side by side.
Urban planning
The features and at the same time the importance of the square as a result of the city expansion after the phase of the Enlightenment in Kassel is immanent for the understanding of the urban development and planning at this time. The Brüder-Grimm-Platz connects the two urban axes Wilhelmshöher Allee and Königsstraße at the southern end of Kassel's city center. Both streets meet here at an obtuse angle. While Wilhelmshöher Allee connects the city in a straight line and to the west with Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe , the entire length of Königsstraße runs through Kassel's city center in a northeastern direction and bends at Königsplatzrund as Untere Königsstraße to Holländischer Platz (formerly “Dutch Gate”). This means that the Brüder-Grimm-Platz as an urban development figure in its layout is the last of the squares completed after du-Ry 's urban expansion. The slightly displaced joint of the Königsplatz seeks the careful opening to the north, functions as a ring or star axially in six directions. Following the course into Oberneustadt, Friedrichsplatz links both parts of the old town and Oberneustadt as a grand gesture and opens up a view of the landscape. Humans and artificial surroundings merge here and face the vastness. Finally, the Wilhelmshöher Tor and the Pentagon in front of it, the Brüder-Grimm-Platz, stabilize the development idea and demarcate the city in the direction of the landgrave's freedom. The construction and expansion of Wilhelmshöher Allee and the Königstor will only take place at a later point in time, with the onset of historicism .
history
Since 1776, Wilhelmshöher Allee has been straight along its entire length, and no longer through today's Königstor.In the same year, the then circular Weißensteiner Platz was laid out outside the customs wall at Weißensteiner Tor, at the point where the avenue met the then city limits. In 1799 the first house (see no. 5) was built by Simon Louis du Ry .
In 1805, Elector Wilhelm I commissioned his senior building director Heinrich Christoph Jussow to plan a representative, closed perimeter development. In the same year, work began on a hexagonal edge development with the two side wings of the Wilhelmshöher Tor. With the deposition of the Elector and the establishment of the Kingdom of Westphalia , construction work stagnated for a short time in 1806. With the exception of the Wilhelmshöher Tor, the work continued in the French period, but to this day there has never been a closed perimeter development.
The Brüder-Grimm-Platz changed its name frequently. In the beginning it was still called Weißensteiner Platz, after the predecessor of today's Wilhelmshöhe Palace, it was renamed Wilhelmshöher Platz after the new palace. In the early days of the company you will also find the name Rondel-Platz. In the Third Reich it was called Adolf-Hitler-Platz. Only since the Second World War has the complex been called Brothers-Grimm-Platz because the Brothers Grimm temporarily lived here.
Edge development
Hotel Hessenland
The Hotel Hessenland was built in the 1950s as an early reconstruction building at the confluence of the Obere Koenigsstrasse on the Brüder-Grimm-Platz. For many years, the building designed by Bode was considered an exclusive hotel on the square with a representative roof terrace that provided a wide view of the western parts of the city and the Karlsberg. The building, which is oriented towards Friedrichstrasse with its balcony facade, was later substantially changed. The original roof terrace was added as a full floor and the independent hotel became part of a hotel chain in the 1990s.
Kopp's house
The Kopp'sche House (No. 5), built by SL du Ry in 1799, formed the visual end of Königsstraße until it was demolished in 1910 . From 1805 to '09 it was owned by Carl Jordis , Clemens Brentano's brother-in-law . At that time it was an important meeting place for German Romanticism . B. the collection of songs Des Knaben Wunderhorn completed. It later came into princely possession and served as a town house for various members of the family. In 1910 the building had to give way to the new building of the state museum . Only the “Fürstengarten” behind the property is still reminiscent of the Kopp'sche house.
House of Lords
The so-called Princely House was built in the Westphalian era on the site of two properties as an amortization fund ; After the end of foreign rule, various high-ranking family members of the electoral house lived here, and in Prussian times it became the seat of the chief president. The building between the amortization fund and the gate guard , which, as a residential building, still followed Jussov's original concept for the perimeter development, was added to the building at an early stage; this was where the senior building management office was temporarily located with the official residence of the chief master builder (first Gottlob Engelhard , then Heinrich von Dehn-Rothfelser ).
The Princely House burned out during the war and was replaced by the new building of the Hessian Administrative Court, the size and proportion of which corresponds to the previous building.
Wilhelmshöher Gate
The gate system was to serve as the prelude to Wilhelmshöher Allee, it was intended to commemorate the acquisition of the electoral dignity. Three designs by Jussow have survived, two Roman triumphal arches and a Greek gate based on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin . Only the two gatehouses (No. 1 and 6) could be completed before the French invaded in 1806. After the Elector's return in 1813, construction work was not resumed. The Brothers Grimm lived in the northern gatehouse (No. 1) from 1814 to 1822.
Today the southern gatehouse belongs to the state museum and houses the museum's design collection. The northern part is now part of the Hessian administrative court .
Arnoldsche wallpaper factory
The classicist house no. 4 was built in the Westphalian era. At that time, the Bishop of Hildesheim and the Prince-Bishop of Corvey , among others , who were almsmen in Kassel , lived here . The first Kassel wallpaper factory was later set up here, and Kassel's cultural elite met under the roof of the then owner. Guests and protégés of the Arnold family included Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (he is said to have invented the gas mask here), Louis Spohr and Adolph Menzel . There were workshops in the building for years. Today the building houses various law firms as well as the offices of the Brothers Grimm Society with archive, library, Grimm room and Grimm Institute.
Wimmelstift
In 1898 a monument was unveiled in the middle of the square, commemorating the founding of the empire in 1871. The 13 meter high sandstone obelisk with a group of figures by Carl Begas the Elder. J. was donated by the Kassel industrialists Heinrich and Johannes Wimmel . In 1965 the memorial was moved to the Fürstengarten behind the State Museum. Today there is a modern bronze sculpture by the Brothers Grimm on the square.
Web links
- 360 ° panorama
- History of the Brüder-Grimm-Platz: urban development, architecture and cultural history
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 40 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 26" E