Castle (Bayreuth)

Water tower of the former mechanical cotton spinning mill

Burg is the name of a district of Bayreuth . The origin of the name is unknown, there was probably never a fortress at this point. The landmark of the castle is the preserved water tower of the former mechanical cotton spinning mill in Bayreuth

location

The castle is located northeast of the city ​​center between the railway systems of the main station and the Sankt Georgen district . The main axis is Wilhelm-von-Diez-Straße, which runs from east to west. The Burg Stichstrasse branches off from Markgrafenallee to the northwest.

Historic social housing estate Burg

“Swiss house” in the social housing estate Burg

The first Bavarian social housing estate was built on the castle in 1861 . The mechanical cotton spinning mill, which employed 630 workers that year, built six Swiss-style terraced houses there, to which a further 67 were added in the following years. With 52 square meters of living space each on two floors and a small garden, they were generously designed for the conditions at the time. By 1866 80, in a second construction phase by 1909 more than 100, and ultimately a total of 284 apartments were built for the spinning workers and their families. This created a residential colony, even with its own “Kärwa” (parish fair). The stable rental prices were important for the workers, while private apartments in the city quickly became more expensive with increasing demand and a shortage of supply. In addition, the mechanical cotton spinning mill offered inexpensive food and clothing, had its own dining houses, a works library, a sewing and knitting school and even a kindergarten. The company's pension fund founded in 1856 was also exemplary.

After the quarter survived the hail of bombs in 1945, the factory estate was completely destroyed after the war. The city's building committee decided to demolish it in February 1973, which the mayor at the time, Hans Walter Wild , pushed through against the will of the city building council, who appealed to the preservationists and city historians. The last of the “Swiss little houses” disappeared in the summer of 1981, with them a historically valuable complex was destroyed from today's perspective.

Current situation

Today the castle is built with modern apartment blocks as well as administration and school buildings.

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  Wilhelm-von-Diez-Strasse

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  Hagenstrasse

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  Modern apartment blocks on August-Riedel-Strasse

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  Montessori School on Wilhelm-von-Diez-Straße

literature

• Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - rediscovered . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-60-9 .
• Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth - The last 50 years . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1983.
• Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth . Druckhaus Bayreuth Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Bayreuth 1993, ISBN 978-3-922808-35-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth as it was. Flash lights from the city's history 1850–1950 . 2nd Edition. Gondrom, Bayreuth 1981, p. 22 .
2. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth in the twentieth century , p. 128.
3. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth Chronik 1989 , p. 164.

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '  N , 11 ° 35'  E