Bookseller Exchange

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The booksellers exchange around 1840

The booksellers ' exchange in Leipzig was the seat of the German booksellers' association from 1836 to 1888 . The two-story building stood at Nikolaikirchhof at Ritterstrasse 12 on a piece of land that the Börsenverein had acquired from the university . The architect of the late classicist building was Albert Geutebrück .

history

In 1825, the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhande was founded in Leipzig, whose task it should be, among other things, to "first and foremost see to the appropriate furnishing of the stock exchange location", since there was no room of its own and the one used up until then had become too small. Since 1792, rooms in the Paulinum had been rented for each Easter fair and the trade there was called a bookseller exchange. When the construction plans were to be implemented from 1833 onwards, a plot of land on Augustusplatz next to the Paulinerkirche was initially planned. The university did not agree to this, although the Café français was built here two years later . Instead, she suggested a place at the Nikolaikirchhof, on which the Burse of the Bavarian (Student) Nation (Bursa Bavarica) stood, an old half-timbered building that has since fallen into disrepair .

The foundation stone was laid on October 26, 1834, and the booksellers' exchange was inaugurated on April 26, 1836. In addition to the trading activities for the Easter fairs, the general meetings of the Börsenverein took place here.

But the building was also used for other purposes. There were regular painting exhibitions, concerts by the Euterpe Music Association and literary events. In 1865 the opening event of the women's conference was held here, at which the General German Women's Association was founded.

As a result of the increasing number of members, the Börsenverein established a new club house in Hospitalstrasse (now Prager Strasse) in 1888, the German Booksellers ' House , sometimes also called the Booksellers Exchange or New Booksellers Exchange . The old booksellers exchange bought the university and set up a cafeteria and fencing floor for the university under the name Convictorium . On December 4, 1943, the building was badly damaged in the bombing raid on Leipzig and demolished in 1963.

At the end of the 1980s, a residential and commercial building was built in its place, which serves as a guest house for the University of Leipzig.

  • Bursa Bavarica, predecessor of the booksellers exchange

  • The booksellers exchange around 1890

  • Business operations in the main hall of the bookseller exchange

  • Medal for the opening of the bookseller exchange

  • The guest house of the university, successor to the stock exchange

Building description

The image of the street front shows that there was a higher floor on a lower ground floor. The seven window axes were laid out symmetrically and the central portal at the base level with laterally projected columns and, like all windows, provided with round arches, included in the symmetry. The upper windows were also equipped with right-angled frames and horizontal roofs. Under the protruding cornice of the relatively flat gable roof , in gilded bronze lettering, stood DEUTSCHE BUCHHÆNDLER BŒRSE.

On the ground floor, the building contained a billing room next to the entrance, after an anteroom the restoration room supported by four free-standing columns, the archive, a meeting room and a room for the caretaker. A protruding extension towards the courtyard comprised the caretaker's apartment and the staircase to the first floor. The main hall, which took up the entire upper floor, was structured by high Corinthian columns . The stands on the left and right were closed off by iron bars between the columns as balcony railings. The doors and windows were beautifully framed.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bookseller Exchange  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ uni-leipzig.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 26 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 46 ″  E