Georgenhalle

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The Georgenhalle in Leipzig around 1860
The excavation pit for the Georgenhalle in Leipzig in 1855 (also called Koch-Loch)
The Georgenhalle as the seat of the Imperial Court from 1879 to 1895

The Georgenhalle was a building complex in Leipzig on Goethestrasse, which was bordered to the south by Ritterstrasse and north by Brühl .

history

In 1416 the women's college of the university , actually "Collegium Beatae Mariae Virginis", named after a neighboring Marienkapelle (Our Lady), was established as a private foundation at the eastern end of the Brühl . In the 1850s, the city council bought the college and the adjoining building and intended to replace the meat banks in Reichsstraße.

In 1857 a four-storey classical building was inaugurated, the ground floor of which was primarily used to sell meat. The excavation pit for this must have been open to the people of Leipzig for too long, because on a drawing referring to the year 1855 it is called "Koch-Loch". The mayor at the time was called Koch . The name of the building referred to the Georgenhaus on the opposite side of the Brühl.

For 16 years, from 1879 to 1895, the Georgenhalle was the seat of the newly founded Imperial Court until it moved into the new building in the south-west suburb. Then the Stadtwerke Leipzig used the building.

In 1871 Otto von Bismarck became Chancellor of the Reich and an honorary citizen of Leipzig in the same year. Since 1875 there was also a café in the Georgenhalle with the name “Prince Reich Chancellor”. In 1912 Ernst Fischer, the later owner of Café Corso (Leipzig) | Café Corso, leased it and ran a reading café with 200 domestic and foreign newspapers.

On December 4, 1943, the Georgenhalle was destroyed by a bomb attack and was not rebuilt afterwards.

Follow-up buildings

After the property had been undeveloped for many years, VEB Chemieanlagenbau built an administration building in 1964/65 . It was a seven-story two-wing building with a red glass facade along Goethestrasse and Brühl.

In the summer of 2008, the city sold the area. The administration building was demolished. Opernpark-Center GmbH, a subsidiary of Unister Holding GmbH, which operates and markets Internet websites, planned to build an office and residential building with at least 25,000 m² of floor space. In December 2015, Unister announced that it would not build a new company headquarters. The building plot was sold.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The colleges of the university
  2. ^ Fritz Dietze: A pastry shop tells: 60 years of "Prince Reich Chancellor" , Leipzig 1935
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the Corso Pastry Shop
  4. ↑ LVZ 13./14. February 2010 Page 24 ( Memento from April 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 387 kB) with pictures of the demolished and the planned building
  5. ↑ Unister renounces company headquarters - building plot in Leipziger City sold in Leipziger Volkszeitung (accessed on December 21, 2015)

literature

  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 175

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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 30.2 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 49.6 ″  E