Demianiplatz
| Demianiplatz | |
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 Central stop "Demianiplatz" in winter 2006 |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Goerlitz |
| District | Downtown |
| Created | around 1830 |
| Newly designed | 2010 |
| Confluent streets | At the museum, at the Frauenkirche, Grüner Graben, Luisenstrasse, Marienplatz , Obermarkt , Platz des 17. Juni, Theaterpassage, Teichstrasse |
| Buildings | Art Nouveau department store , theater |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Space design | Flower clock , Demiani monument |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | approx. 13,500 m² |
The Demianiplatz in Görlitz is an elongated, fragmented square in the city center. The square is divided into a large paved area behind the Kaisertrutz and a smaller, tapering square in front of the Art Nouveau department store. This is where the central, inner-city transfer stop for the inner-city local transport of the Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe is located . The area behind the Kaisertrutz is used as a bus station. Both parts of the square are connected by a road that runs alongside the theater.
history
The area originally belongs to the southern suburb, outside the protective city wall. The city moat separated the square from the old town; it was only connected by a stone bridge to the Frauentor. As early as 1420 there were seventeen taprooms on it. The bell foundry was established here in 1516, which also cast the bell for the Frauenturm in 1529 .
Most of the city wall was removed around 1830 and the trenches filled in. The wall and the cemetery of the Frauenkirche , which previously stretched from the post office to the former Wilhelmtheater , gave way to the increasing traffic. Now the city could also expand in a southerly direction. The rural character was lost and the craftsmen, wagon builders and wheel makers who settled here were gradually displaced from 1830 onwards. The name of the square at that time - “Rademarkt” - also came from the last professional group. They lived and worked in low half-timbered houses with roofed wooden porches, known as wheel bells. These houses ran along today's street between Frauenkirche in the direction of Bautzner Strasse. These half-timbered houses gave way to two-story stone residential and commercial buildings. In 1875 only three half-timbered houses of the master potter Johann Karl Cesy remained. The city was in negotiations with him about the purchase of the houses and the land in order to create a direct connection to Berliner Straße. A few years after the master potter's death in 1888, the publishing houses of the stock corporation “Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger” were built on the properties at Demianiplatz 23 and 24. The construction finally buried the city's plans. In 1926 there was only a connection to the Postplatz - the Theaterpassage. Among other things, it should shorten the inconvenient detour around the long Art Nouveau building on Postplatz for theater-goers. Stadtwerke Görlitz has its headquarters and customer center in the passage at the passage. The Stadtwerke building facing Demianiplatz dates back to 1878 and the facade is decorated with sculptures of women.
Only with the construction of the theater , which was inaugurated in 1851, was the square divided into today's two parts. The green spaces in front of the theater entrance were laid out in 1852, but the flower clock known to Görlitzers was not added until 1960.
The inn "Zur golden Sonne" on the north-western corner of the square enjoyed an excellent reputation as early as 1770. With its stables, carters and cattle dealers considered it one of the most distinguished inns in the city. In the GDR era, the control center for rapid medical aid was also located here .
For more than 125 years, the longest-serving pharmacy in town - the Humboldt Pharmacy - has been located not far from the inn, on the corner of the Grünen Graben.
The place was named Demianiplatz in 1846 in honor of Görlitz's first mayor, Gottlob Ludwig Demiani . In the park between the theater and the Kaisertrutz , a memorial reminds him to this day, one of the most influential Görlitz mayors. The monument once stood in the park in front of the theater entrance.
One of the oldest commercial buildings is on the corner of Marienplatz . It belonged to the entrepreneurs Georg and Hermann Bargou. It was a popular shopping mall. In 1952 a consumer for household items moved in here. In 1993, after extensive restructuring, the Deutsche Bank followed .
In 1717 the inn "Zum golden Strauss" was located at the current location of the Art Nouveau department store. It was on the corner of today's Marienplatz. The inn with a long tradition was demolished at the beginning of the 20th century and the foundation stone for the aforementioned department store was laid in 1913. It is considered the only original German department store from the beginning of the 20th century. In its eventful history it changed name and owner several times. Since the bankruptcy and the subsequent liquidation of the last tenant - Hertie GmbH , the department store has been largely empty and is looking for a new buyer or tenant.
today
As part of the reconstruction of the square from 2010, the air raid shelter behind the Kaisertrutz has been torn down and the park around the weir system has been redesigned. Furthermore, the streets and the former parking areas for coaches around the square are to be renovated.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Feyerabend & Arthur Haupt: Alt-Görlitz then and now . Görlitz: Hoffmann and Reiber, 1927, p. 98 ff .
- ↑ Ludwig Feyerabend & Arthur Haupt: Alt-Görlitz then and now . Görlitz: Hoffmann and Reiber, 1927, p. 101 .
- ↑ goerlitz.de: Tour of Demianiplatz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 10, 2010 ; Retrieved June 28, 2010 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 15 " N , 14 ° 59 ′ 5.6" E