Elisabethstrasse (Görlitz)
| Elisabethstrasse Elisabethplatz
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| place | Goerlitz |
| District | Historic old town , downtown |
| Cross streets | Bismarckstrasse, Jakob-Böhme-Strasse, Joliot-Curie-Strasse, Klosterstrasse, Steinstrasse, Weberstrasse |
| Places | Marienplatz |
| Buildings | Thick Tower , Elisabeth School , former Reichsbank |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic, bicycle traffic, car traffic |
The Elizabeth Street (often Elisabethplatz ) is a street in the town of Görlitz. Elisabethstrasse forms the border between the historic old town and the city center . The street was laid out in the middle of the 19th century and follows the former course of the double city wall ring at this point.
The western part of the avenue-like central strip is used as a weekly market . Grocers in particular offer their goods for sale here.
The street was named after Elisabeth Ludovika von Bayern , the wife of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . In Görlitz, the street is often called Elisabethplatz due to its large size and its avenue-like median .
history
Before the Elisabethstraße was built, the city wall, the kennels and moats as well as several gardens were located in its place and in the eastern continuation up to the Lausitz Neisse . From Marienplatz to the east were the gardens of Bauer and Gevers, the property of the resource and Berg's garden. In 1773 there were several trees on today's southern street. Later on, the cloth makers set up their cloth frames here. About the height of today's intersection with Bismarckstrasse was the so-called Rähmhaus . The cloth frames disappeared in 1843 and the pot market was relocated to their place.
The decision to expand the area into a promenade was taken in 1843. However, the work was delayed due to the later demolition of the city wall. Between 1853 and 1855 the road was laid out in its present form. For this purpose, the trenches were filled and the wall and kennel area in the north was used for the newly emerging street escape. The road to the east was completed in 1854 with the construction of the Royal Prussian Bank , later the Reichsbank . Today's Jakob-Böhme-Strasse, which leads past the bank building to the north, was called An der Bank at the time and was continued in 1864 with the creation of Bergstrasse. As early as 1862, four rows of plants were planted on Elisabethstrasse. At that time there were said to have been 175 trees.
Klosterstrasse was laid out at about the same time as Elisabethstrasse and has since divided it into an eastern and a western part. The weekly market has been held in the middle of the promenade since 1864 . Agricultural and horticultural products have been sold here ever since. Between 1882 and the time of the First World War , the Görlitz tram ran along the Bismarckstrasse – Klosterstrasse axis along the promenade.
In 1871 the city announced an architectural competition for the construction of a boys' middle school on Elisabethstrasse. For the construction of the new school building, the old house on the floor was finally bought and demolished in 1873. The construction of the Elisabeth School was coordinated by City Planning Officer Karl Marx. The new school building was finally inaugurated in 1875. Today the building houses the downtown high school.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Feuerriegel: A street that is often wrongly called square . In: Saxon newspaper . March 2, 2005 ( online [accessed December 26, 2012]).
- ↑ a b Richard Jecht: History of the City of Görlitz, Volume 1, Half Volume 2 . 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 693 .
- ↑ a b goerlitz.de: Elisabethstrasse . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 26, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ msinnenstadt.goerlitz.de: Worth knowing . Retrieved December 26, 2012 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 14.5 ″ N , 14 ° 59 ′ 21.7 ″ E