Clinicumsgasse

Clinicumsgasse in the old town of Tübingen

Looking west into Clinicumsgasse

The adjoining Alte Burse , which housed the university clinic from 1805 to 1846, led to the name.

One of the many narrow, long and steep stairs that connect Clinicumsgasse to other streets

The "Arche" seen from the Klosterberg, around 1900. The house still has 6 different entrances on several levels.

The Clinicumsgasse is a very narrow street in the old town of Tübingen .

location

It is a dead-end street that branches off from Neckargasse to the west and, as part of the pedestrian zone, is only accessible to residents with cars. Due to the tight conditions, only the eastern part is accessible for vehicles. Pedestrians, on the other hand, can reach the neighboring Bursagasse , Münzgasse and Klosterberg via numerous old and all steep stairs .

Clinicumsgasse is located below Münzgasse in an area that sloped steeply towards the Neckar and was formerly known as “in the Arch”, that is, on an open area that was formerly overgrown with thorn bushes.

The walls above Clinicumsgasse were only built as a support device when this alley was created. Originally, they did not serve to ensure the stability of the Münzgasse development located uphill in the core of one of the oldest settlement areas in Tübingen. The legal relationships between these retaining walls had been controversial for centuries, until 2007–2014, among other things, they could be clarified within the framework of the activities of the city administration.

Origin of name

The name of the alley is derived from the university clinic that was formerly housed in the Alte Burse .

particularities

Some of the historic Tübingen personalities lived in this street, including Nicodemus Frischlin , Eduard Mörike and Paul Ernst .

The old auditorium towers over Clinicumsgasse. A tunnel leads the street through the building.

The university detention center faces the Clinicumsgasse with its two small windows.

Cityscape statutes and monument protection

The Clinicumsgasse with the north side of the lot Bursagasse 1 as well as the parcels 133/4, 133/5 and 133/6 belongs according to the Tübingen cityscape statute with the building fronts and roof sections to the historical streets and squares of the city that are particularly worthy of protection.

Due to its distinctive topography and its lavish development with partly large-scale university buildings and town houses from the 15th and 16th centuries that characterize the cityscape, the alley is of great testimony to the history and design of Tübingen's urban architecture.

building


image	No.	description
	2	Built in 1470 at the latest. Three half-timbered floors and the two-story roof with a triangular gable facing south rest on a massive transverse vaulted cellar. Mainly tailors and hatters lived here. Cultural monument.
	4th	Built in the early 16th century. The building is part of the so-called coin. The part in Clinicumsgasse has a rectangular, narrow structure over 5 floors. The other part is at Münzgasse 6. Among other things, it was Eduard Mörike's house . Cultural monument.
	6, 6/1 and 6/2	The so-called "Arche", one of the oldest houses in Tübingen. It was erected as a one to five-storey, eaves building complex in the 2nd half of the 15th century on a hillside between Klosterberg and Clinicumsgasse. Above the massive sloping floors with outside cellars, u. a. in Clinicumsgasse 6/2, No. 6 was built as a plastered half-timbered house with a gable roof and No. 6/1 with a visible framework with over-valued diagonal struts as well as crossed, leafed head and foot bands as well as a crooked hip roof, against the Klosterberg with a strong advance over Knaggen. Cultural monument.
	8th	Rebuilt shortly after 1800. Building worth preserving. The humpback square wall on the opposite side of the street is one of the few visible remains of the first, Hohenstaufen town wall of Tübingen. The city wall originally ran along the slope above the "in der Arch" slope and was only moved towards the banks of the Neckar around 1400.
	10	Previously formed a unit with house number 8. Paul Ernst lived here . Building worth preserving.
	Previously 12	The former Clinicumsgasse 12 was renamed Bursagasse 1 after the Dental Institute moved there in 1967 and moved to a new building in Osianderstraße in Tübingen as a clinic and polyclinic for dental, oral and jaw diseases . The building, which was then called Alte Burse again , was completely renovated from 1968 to 1972 for the art historians and the Philosophical Seminar, with the exterior largely unchanged and three Gothic pillars in the entrance hall preserved inside, their carved capitals with the palm of Count Eberhard in his beard and his motto attempto! are decorated.
	Previously 14	Tunnel under the old assembly hall . Until 1830, the old university archive was located there behind four iron doors in a narrow, damp and completely dark vaulted cellar in the second basement of the old auditorium. The even older registry was located in an opposite, rather messy room on the Neckar side of Clinicumsgasse, which, like the archival vault, was only accessible from Clinicumsgasse.
	Previously 16	In the new building completed in 1968 in the former Clinicumsgasse 16, which is now called Bursagasse 5, the deaconesses had to move from the community home because the city administration wanted to use the previous nurses' home to expand the community home. From there, the Diakoniestation moved in October 1995 to the "Villa Metz " , which has been converted into the "House of the Church " at Hechinger Strasse 13.
	18th	The building was in the 15th century as Pfründhaus the Collegiate Church next to the standing in the Clinicumsgasse 20 former Mesner built house. The well-preserved residential building, mentioned in 1498, is easily accessible from the collegiate church via a passage crossing Clinicumsgasse. The Tübingen poet and theology professor Nicodemus Frischlin lived here from 1570 to 1586 . Cultural monument.
	20th	The building was erected in 1814 by a butcher instead of the old sacristan's house and, after a fire, received a new roof, a shop fitting with a shop window and new windows in the 20th century. Building worth preserving. Opposite this, the city of Tübingen is planning to build a new public toilet facility from March to August 2019, as the toilet facilities built into the supporting wall below the Stiftskirchenplatz (former St. Georgs cemetery) between 1960 and 1965 cannot be put back into operation without construction work.
	22nd	The building was built in 1815 as a so-called blacksmith's shop by the baker Georg Friedrich Schmied and was later probably used as a fraternity room in the basement. The square in front of the building between the confluence of Clinicumsgasse and Bursagasse in Neckargasse was formerly known colloquially as Kappiseck . It was named after Otto Kappis, who had founded a drug store in Tübingen in 1878 . He ran this in his own house at Neckarstraße 22, at the corner of Clinicumsgasse, as a colonial, materials, specialty and paint shop. Around 1900 the business operated as "Medicinal Drugstore J. Müller" under the management of the royal Württemberg court purveyor Jakob Müller and was colloquially called "Kappis-Müller" in Tübingen. Jakob Müller's son-in-law, chemist druggist Eugen Herb, continued the trade in “drugs, chemicals, colonial and dyed goods” in Neckarstrasse. In 1963 his son Hans Herb took over the Neckar drugstore Müller & Co. Three years later the business moved to Kirchgasse 10, where Hans Herb managed it until his death on February 20, 2009 . Building worth preserving.