Brautwiesenplatz

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Brautwiesenplatz
Coat of arms Görlitz he.png
Place in Görlitz
Brautwiesenplatz
View of the middle of the Brautwiesenplatz in the direction of Brautwiesenstrasse
Basic data
place Goerlitz
District Downtown
Created 1899
Confluent streets At the Brautwiesentunnel, Bahnhofstrasse, Brautwiesenstrasse, Cottbuser Strasse, Landeskronstrasse, Spremberger Strasse
Buildings Bridal meadow tunnel, hotel turntable
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Square area approx. 5000 m²

The bride Wiesenplatz is the central square in the western Görlitz city . The circular square with a circular lawn in the middle is laid out as a roundabout, on which six streets merge radially.

The square got its name from the former field name for this area - The Bridal Meadows . During the National Socialist era , the square was named Danziger Freiheit . After the end of the Second World War , it was renamed to December 1 of the same year according to a city council resolution of October 23, 1945.

location

The Brautwiesenplatz is located north of the railroad tracks at the western exit of the Görlitzer Bahnhof . Below the tracks, the Brautwiesentunnel leads from the south onto the square. The eastern exit from the roundabout is Bahnhofstrasse, which leads past the former freight yard towards the train station. The next exit from the roundabout is Landeskronenstraße, which leads towards the city center. The Cottbuser Straße towards the north is, like the Brautwiesenplatz and the underpass, part of the federal highway 99 between Görlitz and Zittau . Spremberger Strasse and Brautwiesenstrasse follow to the west. Coming from the direction of Rauschwalde , the tram once ran from Brautwiesenstraße to the square over the lawn roundabout and then drove over Landeskronstraße in the direction of Demianiplatz .

history

The hotel on the north side of the Brautwiesenplatz

The bridal meadows were far outside the city ​​walls until the beginning of the 19th century . Although there were already considerations for a connection between Bautzener Chaussee and Bahnhofstraße in the middle of the 19th century, these were initially rejected due to the difficult terrain.

During the expansion of the station between 1867 and 1869, the numerous road crossings on the same track disappeared from the cityscape. In addition to the blockhouse bridge and the Jakobstunnel, a narrow underpass has already been created on the Brautwiese, which was the forerunner of the later Brautwiesentunnel. As early as 1864 there were talks between the owners of large areas at the bridal meadows Eduard Schultze (Görlitzer merchant, builder of the Hotel Victoria on Postplatz ) and Gustav Zimmermann and the city about the construction of a road. However, the lack of clarity about the dimensions of the tracks at the new station prevented a decision that year. A year later, the owner and the city agreed on the construction of a road at the city's expense, whereby the property owners should give up the required land free of charge and agree to the construction of a farm road from the Gasthof Stadt Leipzig to the homestead No. 900. However, the representatives of the railway company objected to the decision, as this would result in extensive adjustments to the terrain on the Brautwiesendamm, which, in the opinion of the railway workers, would have hindered access to the goods shed of the Berlin-Görlitzer-Eisenbahn and the Austrian and Prussian goods and customs sheds. There are assumptions that above all the so-called railway king Bethel Henry Strousberg , who was also the owner of property No. 890 between what would later become Löbauer Strasse and the tracks, was behind the negative attitude of the railway and thus pursued private interests.

The tram crossed the square in Landeskronstrasse, Brautwiesenstrasse. This can be seen from the still missing planting on the edge.

It was not until 1868 that an agreement was reached on the conflict of interest. The farm road to homestead no. 900 was converted into a street and was now on the project plans as Planstraße 3 (later Landeskronstraße). She cut through the Strousberg property. According to the project plan, Planstrasse 6 (later Cottbuser Strasse) and the junction of six streets should be on the property of Schultze and Zimmermann. Initially, the project plans envisaged a large space south of the railroad tracks and the underpass, on which five streets were to be merged in a star shape. Only the development plan approved in 1871 provided for an initially rectangular space north of the tracks, which was directly connected to the rail underpass. If it had been built, it would have had to be supported by high lining walls opposite the higher bridal meadow. However, the railway company did not exchange the land required for this with the city.

In 1873, the city council decided to integrate Krölstraße with Bahnhofstraße. A year later, a state police decree came into effect, which included changing the station facilities and as a result of which the urban development plan had to be changed. Bahnhofstrasse was moved further north and Planstrasse 3 (later Landeskronstrasse), which was once supposed to lead straight to the Brautwiesentunnel, was also bent north on the plans at Leipziger Strasse. The project planning of the circular bridal meadow area probably also dates from this time. The area north of the railway underpass was completed in 1900. The square south of the underpass was never realized, only the bend in Lutherstrasse gives an idea of ​​the streets that radiate out from the square. After the First World War , Görlitzer Maschinenbau AG (today Siemens) received the approval to build over the other planned roads south of the railway line.

In the 1930s, the tram route between the Kreisbahnhof and Landeskronstrasse was completely relocated from Rauschwalder Strasse to Landeskronstrasse and Brautwiesenstrasse. Since then, the tram has also crossed Brautwiesenplatz, which at that time was called Danziger Freiheit , and also had a stop in the middle of the circular lawn. About 50 years later, in 1986, the tram service between Demianiplatz and Rauschwalde was stopped, and tram traffic across the square ended.

literature

  • Andreas Bednarek: The Bridal Meadow - from the parade to the central square of Görlitz Weststadt . In: Stadtverwaltung Görlitz, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Görlitz . No. 2 , 1993, p. 24-28 .

Web links

Commons : Brautwiesenplatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Jecht: History of the City of Görlitz, Volume 1, Half Volume 2 . 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 638 .
  2. ^ Hans Joachim Übersaer: Görlitz. 1945 1946 . Ed .: News Office of the City of Görlitz. Hoffmann & Reiber, Görlitz 1946, p. 17 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Bednarek: The Bridal Meadow - from the parade to the central square of Görlitzer Weststadt . In: Stadtverwaltung Görlitz, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Görlitz . No. 2 , 1993, p. 24 .
  4. ^ Wilfried Rettig: Görlitz railway junction . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1994, ISBN 3-922138-53-5 , p. 18 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Bednarek: The Bridal Meadow - from the parade to the central square of Görlitzer Weststadt . In: Stadtverwaltung Görlitz, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Görlitz . No. 2 , 1993, p. 24 f .
  6. ↑ Andreas Bednarek: The Bridal Meadow - from the parade to the central square of Görlitzer Weststadt . In: Stadtverwaltung Görlitz, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Görlitz . No. 2 , 1993, p. 25th ff .
  7. ↑ M. v. Wittenburg (draftsman): Plan of the city of Görlitz . 2nd Edition. E. Remer, Görlitz 1867 ( deutschefotothek.de ).
  8. ↑ Andreas Bednarek: The Bridal Meadow - from the parade to the central square of Görlitzer Weststadt . In: Stadtverwaltung Görlitz, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Görlitz . No. 2 , 1993, p. 27 .
  9. ↑ Magistrate zu Görlitz (ed.): Plan of the city u. of the urban district of Görlitz . CA Starke, Görlitz 1891 ( deutschefotothek.de ).
  10. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 36, 39, 59 ff., 81 .
  11. ^ Monumental plan of Görlitz . Boronow, Breslau ( deutschefotothek.de - around 1905).
  12. ↑ City map of Görlitz . Supplement to the Görlitz address book 1930/1931. Hoffmann & Reiber, Görlitz 1931 ( deutschefotothek.de ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '3.8 "  N , 14 ° 58' 14.1"  E