Burgplatz (Leipzig)
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 Burgplatz with the New Town Hall and Town House (2008) |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Leipzig |
| District | center |
| Created | Around 1900 |
| Newly designed | 1995/1996, 2019 |
| Confluent streets | Burg-, Margrave-, Lotter- and Hugo-Licht-Straße, |
| Buildings | Council and town house , Bauwens house , Burgplatz passage |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian and bicycle traffic, motor vehicles |
| Space design | Pavement with the course of the Pleißenburg walls, town hall fountain |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 2,000 m² |
The Castle Square is an approximately rectangular space of about 2,000 square meters area in the southwest of downtown Leipzig .
history
The Burgplatz was built around 1900 on parts of the Pleißenburg area , when it was demolished in 1897 to make room for the New Town Hall . The town hall was deliberately built a bit out of town to create a new town square. The Burgplatz, whose name refers to the Pleißenburg, is the youngest of the inner-city squares. The town hall fountain was inaugurated on the square near the New Town Hall in 1908 .
The town hall fountain
Burgplatz as a parking area in 1962
During the Second World War , the entire peripheral development was destroyed or badly damaged. After clearing work, the Burgplatz was only bordered by the town hall and town hall, the rest of the structural edging was missing. It was used as a parking lot during the GDR era . There were also provisional sales booths on the extensive war gap that extended eastwards to Petersstrasse .
After the “Wende” (1989/90), the rededication to an urban square began, the perimeter development was supplemented by new buildings, some of which are based on the character of the original structure.
Current development and design
Bauwens house
New Deutsche Bank building
Burgplatz Passage
The New Town Hall closes the square to the south and south-west, while the town hall is to the west . Both buildings serve the city administration and are connected by a two-level "bridge".
The new building of the Bauwens house has formed the end of the square to the north since 1994. The “Teiche House”, which was damaged in the war and later demolished, stood at this point. In the southeast there is an extension with a tower-like risalit , which was also added to the Deutsche Bank building in the 1990s ; it takes up the eaves height of the remaining part of the building, but is otherwise modern in design.
To the east, on the site of the Hirzel House, which had been destroyed in the war, there had been a closed, open excavation pit that was named Burgplatzloch for twenty years since the mid-1990s . It was created in 1995 when a car park was being built for the western end of the Petersbogen , which was built from 1999 to 2001 . Despite several changes of ownership, the construction did not take place. It was not until 2017 that the construction of the Burgplatz-Passage building , which will last until 2019, began according to the plans of the HPP architects with the facade design by the Berlin architects Christoph Kohl Stadter Architekten CKSA. In addition to a passage to Petersbogen as well as shops and restaurants on the ground floor, the upper floors contain a hotel belonging to the NH Hotel Group . The facade, which is covered with Cotta sandstone , contains six life-size figures with reference to the Leipzig disputation of 1519, which took place in the Pleißenburg opposite at the time.
In 1995 an underground car park was built under the square. During the work, the foundation walls of the Pleißenburg were exposed and archaeologically examined. The new paving reflects the outlines of the walls with darker stones.
literature
- Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 83 .
- Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 44 .
- Niels Gormsen , Armin Kühne: Leipzig. Show the change. Leipzig, Edition Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-361-00509-4 .
Web links
- Burgplatz. In: Website of the city of Leipzig. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jens Rometsch: New building officially opened on Leipzig's Burgplatz. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 20, 2019. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Jackie Richard: The riddle of the six facade figures from Burgplatz. In: Image from May 19, 2019. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 13 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 23 ″ E