Dorotheenstrasse (Bad Homburg)
The Dorotheenstraße is next to the Louise Avenue, the main axis of the Baroque Town of Bad Homburg . The two main churches of the city and a large number of listed buildings are on Dorotheenstrasse.
General
Dorotheenstrasse begins at the portal of the landgrave's castle and leads southeast past the Sinclair House , the Redeemer Church , the former Jacob's Church , the Catholic Church of St. Mary and the Old District Court to the Thomas Bridge. The continuation of the street to the old train station is called Schöne Aussicht .
Dorotheenstraße is the western main axis of the Neustadt , the extension of Homburg from the Baroque period , extending from the old town to the southeast . The originally baroque buildings in the upper part of Louisenstrasse are still partially recognizable.
In Louisenstrasse, 18 buildings are listed as individual monuments. See the list of cultural monuments in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe here .
history
From 1684, Landgrave Friedrich II began building the new town. The Neustadt was named Louisenstadt after Friedrich's second wife, Luise Elisabeth von Kurland (1646–1690). In contrast to the winding, historically grown alleys of the old town, a system of right-angled streets was created in the new town according to a uniform plan. The main axes were the parallel streets Louisenstrasse and Dorotheenstrasse. Dorotheenstrasse was named in honor of Landgrave Friedrich II's daughter-in-law, Landgravine Dorothea von Hessen-Homburg (1676–1721).
The development of Dorotheenstrasse as the second street in Neustadt began in 1708. The Landgrave wanted the houses to look uniform. These should consist of unplastered half-timbering, have a uniform mansard roof covered with red beaver tail and the entrance should be in the middle of the house facing Dorotheenstrasse. Only the first two buildings on the street should have a special position due to plastering and an entrance from Löwengasse. In order to enforce these requirements, the Landgrave had the first 12 houses built himself and then sold them. The Dorotheenstrasse thus became a residence for high people of the court and dignitaries of the city.
In 1735 32 houses had already been built. In 1860 the Schöne Aussicht was laid out as an extension of Dorotheenstrasse.
course
The street begins at Löwengasse - at the east gate of Bad Homburg Palace Gardens - and runs from west-northwest to east-southeast. On the south side, Dorotheenstrasse begins with the Protestant Church of the Redeemer, the main church in the city. The neighboring house, Dorotheenstrasse 3 , has been the rectory or parish center of the Erlöserkirche since 1930 . The house at Dorotheenstrasse 5 was built as a French Reformed church, was used as a gym for a long time and is currently being converted into an exhibition hall. The house at Dorotheenstrasse 7 from 1718 has been rebuilt many times and is therefore not a listed building like the neighboring buildings. It was used as a school building for the French Reformed parish from 1800 to 1817. A sign on the house wall reminds of the most famous resident of the house: Friedrich Rolle (1827–1887) lived in this house from 1862 until his death in 1887. The Sisters of Divine Providence ran a hospital at number 9 since the end of the 19th century. From 1920 there was also a surgical ward. In the late 1970s, the hospital was closed due to a lack of young people. The house is used by the Caritas Association and the Catholic Church District Office Hochtaunus .
In 1715 the house at Dorotheenstrasse 11 was built as a baroque residential building. The two-story, five-axis building is still close to its original state today. The Sisters of Divine Providence ran a kindergarten and a home for the elderly here. Today it is used as a Catholic district office (Bischof-Ketteler-Haus). The house Dorotheenstraße 13/15 is a Baroque original building from 1715 with the entrance in the original disposition, in the middle of the front. It is the rectory of the Catholic parish.
The Catholic Church of St. Mary is clearly offset to the rear of the street and thus forms a free space.
The semi-detached house 25/27 is a two-storey residential building made of plastered half-timbering with a dormer-studded mansard hipped roof. As a well-preserved example of the original Baroque development on Dorotheenstrasse, it is a listed building.
The following semi-detached house with the number 29/31 is also a listed building. It forms the western boundary of Fried-Lübbecke-Platz. This square is created by the junction of the street Am Mühlberg. It was originally used as a fountain and is now a place planted with two trees and named after Fried Lübbecke . The square is bordered to the south by the listed house Am Mühlberg 1 and to the east by the listed twin house Dorotheenstrasse 33/35. This plastered house, built in 1843, is part of the second expansion phase on Dorotheenstrasse, which was completed around 1850. Due to its location and building concept, the design of the street extension that had begun in the Baroque era was completed with it.
The last two listed houses on the south side date from the same time: in 1846 number 43 was built. After house number 49 was demolished in 1965, number 47 is the end of the south-eastern street.
On the north side, on the corner of Löwengasse 15, is the Sinclair House . The listed house number 2-4 follows an inner courtyard. This house, built around 1770 with a mansard roof, has an elongated, seven-axis facade. The former residence (from 1784 to 1815) of Isaac von Sinclair was on the site of the current house number 6, which is reminiscent of a plaque.
The houses Dorotheenstrasse 8 and 10 have an exciting history. They were used as a pharmacy, as a hat factory in Möckel (this is where the world-famous Homburg was invented) and as a residential building. The house at Dorotheenstrasse 12 was Louis Jacobi's home . He covered the facade with an incrustation of pebbles.
The poet Friedrich Hölderlin lived in the house at number 34 on Dorotheenstrasse from 1804 to 1805 .
literature
- Monument topography Bad Homburg . Wiesbaden 2001
- Gertha Walsch: Only gentlemen are welcome ; in Taunuszeitung on March 30, 2013, p. 10
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Erlöserkirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 3 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 5 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ Gerta Walsch: "This street has culture on every centimeter"; in; Taunus newspaper of May 18, 2013, p. 10
- ↑ Community group Our Homburg eV (Ed.): Our Homburg: the home newspaper for citizens and friends of our city Bad Homburg vdHöhe, May 2013 edition
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 11 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ Community group Our Homburg eV (Ed.): Our Homburg: the home newspaper for citizens and friends of our city Bad Homburg vdHöhe, May 2013 edition
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 13/15 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 25/27 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 29/31 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 33/35 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 47 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 47 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Dorotheenstrasse 2/4 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 36.8 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 44.6 ″ E