Width (calbe)

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Portal inscription and coat of arms by Jacob Lüdecke

The Breite is a historic street in Calbe (Saale) . At the lower end it runs into an intersection with August-Bebel-Straße and Wilhelm-Loewe-Straße , and at its upper end it meets the Neustadt street .

The width was originally an agricultural area (width = field strip) west of the old royal court in the area of ​​today's "Ritterstraße" and probably belonged to this. After the old royal court complex had been abandoned by the archbishops after the construction of the new castle , the new urban "width quarter" ("latitudo") was created in the 1360s to 1380s as part of the city ​​expansion initiated by Archbishop Dietrich von Portitz .

It was added to the two original districts together with the Ritterstrasse district ( platea militum ) and surrounded by strong city ​​fortifications . When the city was expanded on the west, east and north sides in the 18th century, the city fortifications were removed. Remnants of the wall and the towers can still be seen.

Coat of arms Conrad Lemmers sen. and his wife from the former Lemmerhof at the entrance to the Calbe savings bank building

The street got its name from the neighborhood. It suits her in that it was the widest street in town for centuries. That is why it served as a small town boulevard and parade route .

  • The “Lemmerhof” of Conrad Lemmer senior was located on the site of today's Sparkasse building until 1935 . from the 17th century, of which an old house inscription can be seen at the entrance to the savings bank and a pigeon tower in the courtyard behind . The entrance to the courtyard in what is now Wilhelm-Loewe-Straße refers to the owner from 1697: Johann Friedrich Reichenbach , who also owned the Calbe / Saale manor .
Width 42/43, left portal with seating niches, right classicism portal of the Nicolai family
  • The house Breite No. 42/43 was rebuilt after the destruction in the Thirty Years War by the lawyer, mayor, bailiff and Pfänner Jacob Lüdecke , which is reminiscent of the Latin portal inscription above the left door. In the 18th century was behind the mansion a large cloth manufactory , which the merchant Joachim Gerhard Ritter belonged. The alcoves in front of the left entrance are worth seeing. In 1816 the building went to the woolen goods factory Johann Christoph Nicolai about who in the factory in 1831 with the operation of the first steam engines in the Prussian province of Saxony , the Industrial Revolution ushered in Calbe. In the 1930s, the health insurance fund was housed in the former patrician house. The building, which was used as a residential building after the Second World War , burned down to the foundation walls and the portals in September 1996.
Restaurant Zum Großer Kurfürsten in width no.1 around 1910
  • The superintendent was located to the north of the cloth factory .
  • Next to it, on the corner of Wilhelm-Loewe-Straße, the restaurant "Zum Großen Kurfürsten" was established in the 19th century.
  • The building of the former Commerz-Bank, later the city library , dates from the 1920s. The Elbe-Saale wastewater association is now located in this building .
  • In 1936 the savings bank was built on the site of the "Lemmer-Hof" (see above).
  • At the end of the 19th century, a print shop (Goppel company) that was important for the Calbe district was opened at width no .

In patrician houses of the width resided among others:

These commanders used the width for military parades, among other things.

swell

  • Acta of the police administration in Calbe an der Saale, concerning the buildings listed on the property width 43 - 42 - Issued in the year ... [remainder demolished, but files beginning June 1829.] February 10th and October 19th, 1831
  • FamilySearch (see web links)
  • Reccius, Adolf, Chronik der Heimat (documented news about the history of the district town of Calbe and its immediate surroundings) , Calbe / Saale 1936.

literature

  • Dietrich, Max, Our homeland - local history of the city of Calbe , (Calbe) 1909.
  • Hertel, Gustav, History of the City of Calbe on the Saale , Berlin / Leipzig 1904.
  • Steinmetz, Dieter Horst, In search of historical traces - A city tour in Calbe an der Saale (website)
  • Ders., From the royal court Caluo 936 to the district town of Calbe 1919: History of a central German city from the beginnings to the foundation of the Weimar Republic , Magdeburg / Calbe 2011.
  • Ders., Prostitutes, templars and demons , Magdeburg / Calbe 2011.

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 10.8 "  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 21.2"  E