Burgplatz Passage
Burgplatz-Passage is a commercial building on Burgplatz in Leipzig . It was built between 2017 and 2019 on the site of the “Burgplatzloches”, an open construction pit, which had existed for more than twenty years. In addition to retail and gastronomy, it essentially includes a hotel and offers a passage to the Petersbogen .
history
After the Leipzig Pleißenburg was demolished in 1897 for the construction of the New Town Hall , the Burgplatz was built on parts of the castle area as the youngest place in the city center. Markgrafenstraße now ran over the former moat. The free edges of the Burgplatz were built with commercial buildings. On the east side of the square and reaching into Markgrafenstrasse, this was the Hirzelhaus , a building in the neo-renaissance style .
In the Second World War , apart from the New Town Hall, which was restored by 1949, the entire perimeter of the Burgplatz was destroyed, including the Hirzelhaus. After clearing work, the Burgplatz was used as a parking lot during the GDR era . There were also provisional sales booths on the extensive war gap, which extended eastwards to Petersstrasse .
After the German reunification , the rededication to an urban square began, the perimeter development was rebuilt with new buildings such as the Bauwens House and part of the Deutsche Bank building. Not so on the east side of the square. After the completion of St. Peter's Arch in 2001, a hotel was to be built in a second construction phase and the passage led to Burgplatz. From 1995 to 1999, the Burgplatz was redesigned with an underground car park and the building pit for the second construction phase was already being excavated. But the owner did not build and let building permits expire. The Burgplatzloch, which had existed for decades, was created. The land acquisition of the hole by the owner of St. Peter's Arch also did not lead to development. Only when the owner was threatened with the compulsory closure of the construction pit, there was a change of ownership of Petersbogen and the construction pit, this time with construction success.
At the beginning of 2017, the earlier design by the architecture firm HPP was realized. The facade was designed by the Berlin architecture firm Christoph Kohl, urban planner, architects CKSA, as the winner of a design competition. Without a completely finished ground floor zone, the building was officially opened on June 20, 2019.
architecture
The building with a trapezoidal base faces the Burgplatz with the middle part of its facade, while the side parts extend along Burgstrasse and Markgrafenstrasse, which meet Burgplatz at an angle of about 100 °. The side parts are each almost 50 m long and the middle part 33 m with nine or six window axes . The ground floor and first floor have a different axis division. The building is adjacent to the Merkurhaus in Markgrafenstrasse .
The facade of the six standard floors is covered with Cotta sandstone . The steep sheet metal mansard roof with two additional storeys rises above the protruding main cornice.
The representative middle section with the two-storey passage entrance shows six head- high sculptures designed by the Berlin sculptor Andreas Hoferick with reference to the Leipzig disputation of 1519 in the Pleißenburg, then opposite. In the bottom row are the two disputants Johannes Eck and Martin Luther as well as the host, Duke Georg of Saxony . Under the cornice you can see the opening and closing speakers of the disputation, Petrus Mosellanus and Johann Langius Lembergius, as well as - without reference to the disputation, but at the request of the Swiss owners - the Franco-Swiss reformer Johannes Calvin .
While the ground floor is reserved for retail and catering, the upper floors house an NH Hotel Group hotel with 197 rooms.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Construction planning with obstacles. In: Website of the city of Leipzig. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .
- ↑ New building officially opened on Leipziger Burgplatz. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 20, 2019. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Jens Rometsch: How Calvin came to Burgplatz . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, April 20, 2019.
- ↑ Beds instead of Burgplatzloch: New hotel opened in the city of Leipzig. In: LVZ from May 15, 2019. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 24.6 ″ E