Goldhahngäßchen

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The Goldhahngäßchen around 1930

The Goldhahngäßchen was a narrow access road in the Leipzig city center between the Nikolai and the national highway . Opposite their ends, Böttchergäßchen opened in Reichsstraße and Oelßner's Hof in Nikolaistraße .

The name of the street goes back to the 16th century and comes from the then owner of the southern corner property to Reichsstraße, who was called Christian Goldhain (Goldhahn).

The Goldhahngäßchen belonged to the Leipzig fur trade center around the Brühl . In the Leipzig address book of 1931, 18 of the registered residents of the eight houses on the street were listed as being active in the tobacco industry.

The alley was better known for its importance in the red light district . Literature references can be found for the 19th and 20th centuries. For example, the young Robert Schumann was a guest in Leipzig's “Hurenstrasse”. In his heretic district from 1921, Walter Mehring describes the conditions in Goldhahngäßchen.

During the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , the buildings on Goldhahngäßchen were almost completely destroyed. In connection with the design of Sachsenplatz at the end of the 1960s, a seven-storey residential row with business premises on the ground floor was built across the course of Goldhahngäßchen on Reichsstrasse. The access to Nikolaistraße was also built over in the 1980s to close the gap after the Zeppelinhaus with a seven-story building in prefabricated construction, thus finally eliminating the course of Goldhahngäßchen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 26
  2. ^ Leipzig address book 1930. Retrieved on December 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Veronika Beci : Robert and Clara Schumann: Music and Passion . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-538-07223-X , pp. 87 and 101 (online)
  4. ^ Walter Mehring: The heretic area. A cabaret program . Munich Kurt Wolff Verlag 1921, p. 83 (online)
  5. ↑ Nikolaistraße from the former Goldhahngässchen with a view of Brühl. In: The Nikolaistraße. Retrieved December 4, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 30.2 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 38.8"  E