Güldenstrasse

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Güldenstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Braunschweig
Güldenstrasse
House for the Hanseatic League on Güldenstrasse
Basic data
place Braunschweig
District Old town
Created 13th Century
Newly designed after 1945
Hist. Names aurea platea (1297), guldene strate (1307), Guldenstras (1606)
Connecting roads to the north: Radeklint ;
to the south: Gieseler
Cross streets to the west: Prinzenweg , Sonnenstraße , Echternstraße , Am Alten Petritore, Celler Straße;
to the east: Südstraße, Petersilienstraße, Heydenstraße, Sonnenstraße, Bäckerklint , Lange Straße
Buildings Haus zur Hanse , St. Michaelis , Michaelishof , Güldenstrasse sports hall
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport

The Güldenstraße in the city ​​center of Braunschweig , running in north-south direction, connects Gieseler to the south with the Radeklint to the north . It is part of the new city ​​ring . The street, formerly characterized by half - timbered houses , lost its original character due to the destruction during the Second World War and subsequent redesigns. The narrowest house in Braunschweig is on Güldenstrasse.

history

The Güldenstraße, which runs in the soft area of ​​the old town , is referred to in 1297 as aurea platea , i.e. golden road. The designation upper guldenen strate is documented for the year 1307 . The origin of the street name is not known. 1606 Guldenstrasse and 1671 Güldenstrasse are documented on the city maps . Around 1720 and 1758 the name was distorted to Gildenstrasse , but subsequently corrected again. Most of the half-timbered buildings on Güldenstrasse were destroyed during the Second World War. On February 2, 1945, a bomb attack claimed 14 lives. In the post-war period, the street was converted into a significantly widened traffic lane in the sense of a “ car-friendly city ”. The course in the northern area has been changed. Numerous archaeological excavations have been carried out in the area of ​​Güldenstrasse since the 1980s.

Development

Historic buildings

House of the Hanseatic League

The Haus zur Hanse in Güldenstrasse 7 was built in 1567 by the bone cutter and councilor Cyriakus Haverland as a residential and commercial building. The ribbon frieze carvings on the beams date from this time. Since 1627 the Braunschweig mayor Zacharias Boiling has been brewing and selling beer in the Haus zur Hanse, which thus became the parent company of the later Hofbrauhaus Wolters .

The facade of the building was changed in 1869 in the style of the early Renaissance and thus devalued as an original monument. After the brewery moved to a new building on Wolfenbütteler Strasse , the old brewery was converted into a restaurant. The "Haus zur Hanse", which reopened in 1954 after the Second World War, changed hands several times, most recently in 2010. The facade was renovated in 1985 and the interior was renovated in 1989/90 and 2010.

St. Michaelis Church

The St. Michaelis Church , located between Güldenstrasse and Echternstrasse , is the second parish church in the old town. It was consecrated in 1157 and extended with side aisles at the beginning of the 13th century. The conversion to a three-aisled Gothic hall church took place between the 13th and 15th centuries. The ev.-luth. Parish church was extensively restored in 1879/1881 by Ludwig Winter and Max Osterloh . In contrast to its surroundings, the building survived the Second World War largely unscathed.

Gasthaus Stadt Seesen

At Güldenstrasse 9 (house no. 604) there was a half-timbered house built during the 15th century until it was destroyed during the Second World War, in which an inn with a horse harness was located for several centuries. For the year 1406 the house is mentioned as Ludeke Durekoppes vorwerk . Remnants of what would later become the Stadt Seesen inn were integrated into the Michaelishof residential complex.

More buildings

Kurt Seeleke, who would later become the state curator , was born in Güldenstrasse 1 on August 19, 1912, the son of a honey cake baker , and he preserved numerous irreplaceable art treasures from destruction during the Second World War. The honey bakery JH Wahler, founded in 1600, was still in this house in 1940. House number 819 has been owned by the von Swulber family since 1386 and is known as the Swulber shield in 1455 and 1458 . The house with the number 603 to the north of the Michaeliskirche is named as de Stenhof in 1392 .

Today's development

Michaelishof student residence

The Michaelishof student dormitory, built between 1978 and 1983, is located at Güldenstrasse 8 and 9 . To the north of St. Michaelis Church, two original and ten modeled half-timbered houses were created into a residential complex comprising 12 houses for 165 students. The leading architects were Justus Herrenberger and Jörn Miehe. The carpentry work was carried out by Polish carpenters from Szczecin who mastered the old craft techniques. They carved the ornate studs on which they created moody student types such as the drinker, the studiosus with the board in front of their heads and the long-term students in the 70th semester. The portal arch carries the carved federal eagle , the Brunswick lion , the Lower Saxony horse and the Polish eagle .

The narrowest house in Braunschweig

The house mentioned in a document in 1758 is the narrowest house in Braunschweig with a width of only 3.20 m. The house adjoining the Michaelishof to the north was completely renovated between 1979 and 1982, only the facade being preserved.

Güldenstrasse sports hall

On December 10, 1993, the Güldenstrasse sports hall (house number 39) was inaugurated after around two years of construction. It is used by the Kleine Burg and Martino-Katharineum high schools for school sports and by various sports clubs. In 1997 the Braunschweig section of the German Alpine Club set up a climbing wall .

Reconstructed medieval fountain

Reconstruction of a medieval well.

At the corner of Heydenstrasse, a medieval fountain was discovered in 1870 and covered again. In 1974/75, the nine-meter-deep well made of rubble was exposed and rebuilt in its original form. The neck of the fountain was built about a meter high and supplemented by a roof supported by two oak piles.

Impressions

Arrangement of the photos from north to south.

  • View from the direction of Radeklint into Güldenstrasse. The Südklint was before 1945 where the red vehicle is in the center of the photo .

  • Michaeliskirche from the southeast

  • House of the Hanse (photo from around 1900)

  • Kurt Seelekes birth and death house, Prinzenweg , corner of Güldenstraße

literature

  • Johannes Angel: Güldenstrasse . In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann and Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5
  • Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories, Volume 1: Innenstadt , Cremlingen 1995, ISBN 3-927060-11-9
  • Heinrich Meier : The street names of the city of Braunschweig. In: Sources and research on Brunswick history. Volume 1, Wolfenbüttel 1904

Web links

Commons : Güldenstraße  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Chronicle Braunschweig (entry February 2, 1945)
  2. ^ Loud traces of the Middle Ages , Braunschweiger Zeitung, July 29, 2003
  3. ^ Heinrich Meier: The street names of the city of Braunschweig , Wolfenbüttel 1904, p. 46.
  4. ↑ Short biography on the homepage of the city of Braunschweig
  5. ^ Anke Wickboldt: Walk through old Braunschweig , Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, p. 24.
  6. ^ Heinrich Meier: The street names of the city of Braunschweig , Wolfenbüttel 1904, p. 46.
  7. ^ Justus Herrenberger: Michaelishof . In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, p. 158.
  8. ^ Picturesque composition: Michaelishof is turning 25 , Braunschweiger Zeitung, February 1, 2008

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 54.5 "  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 51.4"  E