Geibelplatz (Lübeck)

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The location of the monument and its place, marked in red
Geibel's square, which may not be called Geibelplatz.
The sculpture by Emanuel Geibel, (created by Hermann Volz )

The Geibelplatz was a square in Lübeck's old town .

location

Whether there is a Geibelplatz in Lübeck is controversial. There is a square that has been designated Geibelplatz since 1936, but the name of the square has never been recorded on any city map of Lübeck. This place, which the National Socialist city planners wanted to be called Geibelplatz (the name is documented under the signature 04.06-6 - 1513 as Geibelplatz (previously part of Königstraße) in the files of the civil engineering office), is located in the north of the old town island , in Jakobi Quarter . It is located on Königstrasse , right at the confluence with the Koberg , next to the Holy Spirit Hospital . The monument to Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) stands on the square, but the square is not indicated by a street sign.

history

On October 15, 1889, the Geibel monument created by Hermann Volz was erected on the square then known as Kaufberg in honor of the Lübeck-born poet Emanuel Geibel . On this day, Geibel's birthday, the Kaufberg was renamed Geibelplatz . In 1936, according to plans by the building councilor Hans Pieper, despite violent protests, the now heavily grown ornamental square, which was designed with green islands, trees and hedges, was redesigned into a traffic area with parking lots . The square got one of its old names back, Koberg. The monument complex, conceived as a unit of square, sculpture and monument, for which high-ranking personalities and institutions in the German Empire had donated considerable sums between 1884 and 1887, was thus abandoned.

As a new installation site of the monument, which was simplified to the statue of the poet, a small peripheral area was dedicated as a street in 1936 and was given the name Geibelplatz . The statue, which had been in a prominent place in the city until then, has been largely hidden from view since then. In the Lübeck address book from 1937 it is written: "Geibelplatz: The place on which the Geibeldenkmal stands." It is not known whether street signs were ever put up. Little is known in Lübeck that the inconspicuous and little noticed square should be an independent street with a name. It has not yet been verified whether the name Geibelplatz was ever recorded on Lübeck street maps. Some new travel guides from the period between 1936 and 1945 neither mention Geibelplatz, nor do they mention Geibel itself. There is no Geibelplatz in current printed city maps or maps on the Internet. The editors of the Lübeck street names come to the conclusion: "The traffic area does not have a name tag."

Buildings

The dominant structure of the small square is the Geibelstatue, which is located on a simple brick base specially built in 1936 , which is the only ornament that bears the sitter's name in metal letters. The low wall that delimits the square on two sides is lined with trees and park benches.

Opposite is the zodiac fountain designed by Lübeck City Planning Director Hans Pieper from 1939, which was made in terracotta by the Hansische Bau- und Kunsttöpferei Karl Gieth and Karl Klippel in Lübeck. The central sun wheel and the surrounding zodiac signs were removed in the 1990s as part of the redesign of the square financed by the Possehl Foundation .

literature

  • W. Brehmer : The street names in the city of Lübeck and its suburbs. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1889.
  • Max Hoffmann: The streets of the city of Lübeck. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. Jg. 11, 1909, ISSN  0083-5609 , pp. 215-292 (also special print: 1909).
  • Roswitha Ahrens and Karl-Ernst Sinner: Why the Kohlmarkt is called "Kohlmarkt". 1809 Lübeck streets, corridors & courtyards - their names, their location. Lübeck 2012

Web links

Commons : Geibelplatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naming of the streets and squares . Stadtarchiv-luebeck.findbuch.net. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ The Genius lying on the steps of the monument disappeared, the base was designed as a brick cube without steps
  3. ↑ Roswitha Ahrens and Karl-Ernst Sinner: Why the Kohlmarkt is called "Kohlmarkt". 1809 Lübeck streets, corridors & courtyards - their names, their location. Lübeck 2012, p. 132

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '17.2 "  N , 10 ° 41' 21.9"  E