Funkenburg (Leipzig)
Funkenburg was the name of several buildings in Leipzig . The first building with this name was a Vorwerk built in the second half of the 15th century southeast of old Leipzig , which was moved closer to the city, to Frankfurter Strasse, around 1600. Here it was called the Great Funkenburg. A nearby restaurant Funkenburg was named Kleine Funkenburg to distinguish it. All buildings no longer exist.
The first spark castle
The Leipzig mint master Andreas Funke had an estate built between 1479 and 1494 west of the Marienquelle , between Grimm- and Bechsteinweg in what is now the Leipzig district of Marienbrunn . Located alone and far outside the city, it may well have been well secured, so that the name Funkenburg, after the name of the landowner, became natural. The Funkenburg included the water rights to the Marienquelle, half of which a successor Funken sold in 1502 to the City Council of Leipzig for drinking water supply via a wooden pipe. The estate is said to have been destroyed by the troops of Elector Johann Friedrich in 1547 after the unsuccessful siege of Leipzig in the Schmalkaldic War , but was rebuilt soon afterwards. At the end of the 16th century, the city council closed many of its outbuildings. He left the Funkenburg, which was now apparently in his possession, to Wolf Seidel from Leipzig on the condition that the estate be relocated near the city. (Location of the first Funkenburg: map )
The Great Funkenburg
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The previous Funkenburg was therefore torn down and, using the old building material , a large estate was built around 1600 west of Leipzig in the Rannische Vorstadt on Frankfurter Strasse, part of the former Via regia , which took over the name of the old estate and was now called the Große Funkenburg . The estate was located between the Ochsengraben branching off from the Elstermühlgraben and the Faulgraben and had two large ponds.
Around 1700 the estate was owned by the Leipzig Chief Postmaster Johann Jakob Kees the Younger , who around 1712 had large parts of it rebuilt in Baroque style by David Schatz . Parts of the property were also used as a hostel. In the course of the 18th century a large hall and a spacious amusement garden were created. This made the Great Funkenburg one of the most popular excursion destinations for the people of Leipzig. In the large garden with the pond system, over 500 people could have fun with beer, gose , good food, fireworks, jousting , tightrope walking and bird shooting .
From 1844 to 1846 Albert Lortzing lived in a garden house that belonged to the Great Funkenburg.
In 1855 the Leipzig banker Woldemar Frege bought the grounds of the Great Funkenburg. He and his son Arnold Woldemar von Frege-Weltzien ran the parceling and sale of the area for the construction of high-quality residential buildings from the 1880s. The Waldstrasse district was created . The Great Funkenburg was demolished in 1897. Today's Funkenburgstrasse marks the axis of the former main building and the central axis of the courtyard, and the tree-lined Tchaikovsky Street marks the former garden avenue. (Location of the Great Funkenburg: map )
The small spark castle
A few meters towards town, on the opposite side of the street in the 18th century, there was a small estate that belonged to the property on which Johann Zacharias Richter built his famous garden in 1740 . It has been called the Kleine Funkenburg since the beginning of the 19th century . In 1820 the estate was sold independently of the garden and in 1832 it came to the Leipzig brewery owner Carl Wilhelm Naumann . In 1864 he built a multi-storey late classicist residential building with a restaurant, which was also called the Kleine Funkenburg. After the restaurant was closed, the name was transferred to the building. It came into the possession of the city in the 1920s. The house was the only one on the southern side of the street in front of the former Elstergrabenbrücke to survive the Second World War and was a monument worth preserving in terms of urban development. It was demolished in 2005 as part of the redesign of the Ranstädter Steinweg before the 2006 World Cup, despite numerous protests. (Location of the Kleine Funkenburg: map )
Individual evidence
- ^ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 200
- ↑ a b History of the Waldstraßenviertel ( memento from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kurt-Rudolf Böttger: New Leipzig pocket book for locals and foreigners , Leipziger Universitätsverlag (1999), ISBN 978-3933240514 , p. 60
- ↑ City history. Announcements from the Leipziger Geschichtsverein eV 2005, p. 150
- ^ Stadtforum Leipzig: For the preservation of the Kleine Funkenburg ( Memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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