Gottschedstrasse (Leipzig)

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Gottschedstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Leipzig
Gottschedstrasse
Gottschedstrasse with the memorial on the right in the picture (2009)
Basic data
place Leipzig
District center
Hist. Names Poniatowskistraße (1867 to 1933)
Connecting roads Elsterstrasse, Dittrichring
Cross streets Zentralstrasse, Bosestrasse, Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse, Thomasiusstrasse
Buildings Central Theater
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Road design Memorial at the former site of the Great Community Synagogue
Technical specifications
Street length 0.7 km

The Gottschedstraße is a residential street in Leipzig , in the so-called spectacle quarter of the inside Westvorstadt . It extends over a length of about 650 meters in an east-west direction from the inner city ring at the level of the Thomaskirche to the Poniatowski monument on Elstermühlgraben . It is named after the writer , literary and theater theorist Johann Christoph Gottsched . It is best known as a pub and nightlife district.

history

View from Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse to the house at Gottschedstrasse 22 (2009)

The extended Poniatowski Strasse (a planned part of the development plan for Lehmanns Garten ) and the first half of the Poniatowskistrasse, which was laid out in 1867, were renamed Gottschedstrasse in 1881 and 1882, respectively. This corresponds to today's section between Bosestrasse and Thomasiusstrasse. After redevelopment of the remaining garden area around today's Bosestraße, Gottschedstraße was extended to the inner city ring in 1898, the last section up to today's Dittrichring belonged to Zentralstraße until then. At the end of the street on Poniatowskiplan, formerly on the grounds of Richter's garden , there is still the Poniatowski monument, which commemorates the death of the Polish general Józef Antoni Poniatowski during the Leipzig Battle of Nations in 1813.

From 1901 to 1902 the originally privately run Centraltheater was built between Gottschedstrasse and Thomasring (today Dittrichring) on ​​Bosestrasse , which became part of the Leipzig Theater in 1912 .

In 1934 the street was given its current length and route, on January 1st of that year the remainder of Poniatowskistraße was also renamed Gottschedstraße. This sparked outrage among the Polish immigrants in Leipzig and led to the Polish government receiving a rating from the Polish government.

During the Second World War , in the heavy air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943, all of the city's theaters were severely or completely destroyed. The Centraltheater , which was least affected , was poorly restored immediately after the end of the war and re-inaugurated as a theater on December 19, 1945 . Between 1954 and 1957, the building was rebuilt in partly neoclassical style with the main entrance in Bosestrasse and is still the main and secondary stage (e.g. the former Skala and Theater hinterm Eisenen ) of the Leipzig theater .

The extensive dance archive of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR , today Tanzarchiv Leipzig eV , was located in Gottschedstrasse 16, the then so-called Haus der Kammerspiele , for several decades since 1957 .

In the mid-1990s, the Maga Pon café with laundromat was opened in one of the numerous buildings in need of renovation at the time , which quickly became very popular among Leipzig students and artists. In the following years, more cafes, bars and pubs were opened, since then Gottschedstrasse has established itself as one of Leipzig's pub miles . Since the soccer world championship 2006 the Gottschedstraße has been one of the fan miles of the city of Leipzig for international soccer tournaments.

The buildings on the street still consist partly of representative rental houses in closed development , which were built from the end of the 19th century and provided space for small businesses on the lower floors .

The Great Community Synagogue and the commemoration of its destruction

Large community synagogue, Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, around 1860

From 1855 to 1938, at Gottschedstrasse 3, at the corner of Zentralstrasse, was the Great Community Synagogue - the oldest and most important synagogue in Leipzig . During the November pogroms , the building was set on fire on the night of November 9-10, 1938 and largely destroyed. The Israelite Religious Community then arranged for the ruin to be torn down, which lasted until February 1939. Immediately after the destruction, Hubert Ritter , who was the local town planning officer until 1930 , submitted a project sketch for the rebuilding of the site on December 23, 1938 on behalf of the Leipzig Insurance Company , which, however, received no attention. The area then lay fallow for a long time and was largely used as a parking area in the GDR . A memorial stone on the site of the former north facade has been a reminder of the synagogue since 1966 . In 2001 the former location of the synagogue was transformed into a memorial in memory of the November pogroms of 1938. The memorial was designed by the Leipzig architects Sebastian Helm and Anna Dilengite, it traces the floor plan of the synagogue and offers a memorial space with 140 bronze chairs.

Significant former residents

The first Leipzig apartment of the Austrian composer , conductor and conductor Gustav Mahler , who worked in the city from 1886 to 1888, was on the second floor of today's Gottschedstraße 25 (then 4) from 1886 to the end of January 1887. The later politician and chairman of the Central Committee of the SED and the Council of State of the GDR, Walter Ulbricht, was born in the attic apartment in the same house in 1893 and spent the first seven years of his life there. On June 30, 1969, on the occasion of his 76th birthday, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the house, which was removed by an unknown hand in the summer of 1994. Gustav Stresemann , who later became a politician and German Chancellor, also moved to Gottschedstrasse 25 as a student at Leipzig University around 1899.

The cantor , composer and religion teacher Albert Weill lived on the second floor of today's Gottschedstraße 40 (at that time Poniatowskistraße 12) . His son, the composer Kurt Weill, also lived there from June to December 1920 .

literature

  • Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names , ed. from the Leipzig City Archives. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 87.
  • Inner West Suburb. A historical and urban planning study , PRO Leipzig eV on behalf of the city planning office. PRO Leipzig, Leipzig 1998.

Web links

Commons : Gottschedstraße (Leipzig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig address book for 1882, 61st year. Edelmann, Leipzig [1881], pp. 446, 542-543.
  2. ↑ Leipzig address book for 1883, 62nd year. Edelmann, Leipzig [1882], pp. 460-461, 560.
  3. ↑ Leipzig address book for 1899, 78th year. Edelmann, Leipzig [1898], p. VII.
  4. ↑ Leipzig Latest News of October 5, 1937.
  5. ↑ Klank, Griebsch 1995, p. 87.
  6. ^ Brigitte Richter: The opening of the theater on December 19, 1945 . In: Leipziger Blätter (1985), No. 6, p. 29.
  7. ^ Rolf Richter: With Romeo and Juliet in the dance archive of the Academy of Arts. A visit to Gottschedstrasse 16 . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung of December 31, 1983, p. 6.
  8. ↑ Leipzig. Closer dran (2004), No. 4, Ed .: Tourismus und Marketing GmbH, p. 11.
  9. ^ Leipzig (ADAC travel guide). ADAC-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89905-717-1 , p. 29.
  10. ↑ Innere Westvorstadt 1998, p. 34.
  11. ↑ Innere Westvorstadt 1998, pp. 34–35.
  12. ↑ Innere Westvorstadt 1998, p. 27.
  13. ↑ Memorial stone reminds: 14,000 murdered Jewish citizens. The population of the trade fair city honors victims of fascist terror . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung of November 10, 1966, p. 12.
  14. ^ Claudius Böhm (Ed.): Mahler in Leipzig . Kamprad, Altenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-930550-82-1 , p. 190.
  15. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung of July 1, 1969, p. 8.
  16. ^ House and memorial plaques in Leipzig. Part II . PRO Leipzig 1995.
  17. ↑ Frank Schumann (ed.): Lotte and Walter. The Ulbricht in personal testimonials, letters and documents . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-360-01233-X , p. 6 .
  18. ↑ Leipzig address book 1921. 100th year. I. part . Scherl German Address Book Society, Leipzig [1920], p. 1043.
  19. ↑ Leipzig address book 1931. 110th year. First volume, Part I . Scherl German Address Book Society, Leipzig [1930], p. 1206.
  20. ^ Jürgen Schebera: Kurt Weill. Years of apprenticeship in Leipzig . In Leipziger Blätter (1985), No. 6, p. 18.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 26.5 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 5.8 ″  E