Graphic quarter

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The Graphic Quarter is part of Leipzig's Ostvorstadt on the outskirts of the city center and a city ​​quarter in the Zentrum-Ost district . It is located between the main train station , the former Eilenburg train station and the Bavarian train station .

history

German bookseller's house (around 1900)
German book trade house (around 1900)
Publishing house Johann Jakob Weber (1909)

The graphic quarter was created by the settlement of companies in the book industry and publishing houses and was established until around 1900. Among the first publishers of the oldest among music publisher in the world Breitkopf & Hartel (founded in 1719), C. F. Peters (1800) and the Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag (1807). Other well-known companies were the BG Teubner Verlag , the F. A. Brockhaus Verlag , the Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. , Koehler & Amelang , the Oscar Brandstetter Verlag , the Verlag Otto Spamer , the Kurt Wolff Verlag , the Bibliographisches Institut , the Verlag Carl Gottlieb Röder , EA Seemann , the bookseller Friedrich Volckmar , the printing company Giesecke & Devrient , the English Art Institute A. H. Payne , the graphic arts institute HF Jütte, the printing machine entrepreneur Karl Krause , the large bookbinders H. Sperling and E. A. Enders, the printing machine factory and type foundry Schelter & Giesecke and the paper dealer Sieler & Vogel. 1888 was the German booksellers House as the seat of the Booksellers Association of the German booksellers dedicated and 1898-1901, the German Book Trade house built as the seat of the German Book Trade Association. From 1894 the Leipzig People's Newspaper was produced by the G. Heinisch printing company.

In total, the Leipzig city address book in 1900 recorded over 2,200 book trade and book trade companies, including 848 publishers and bookstores, 113 music stores , 44 second-hand bookshops , 201 bookbinders and 189 printing houses. Around 95 percent of these companies were located within the graphic quarter.

More than 70 percent of the Graphic Quarter was destroyed in two bomb attacks on December 4, 1943 and February 27, 1945 during World War II. About a thousand companies were affected. With a plant value of around 216 million Reichsmarks , the damage amounted to around 162 million Reichsmarks. An estimated 50 million books were burned, including 1.5 million volumes from Fock's antiquarian bookshop .

After the Second World War, many of the companies originally located in the Graphic Quarter moved their headquarters to West Germany ; after the expropriation , some continued their activities as a state-owned company (VEB), company with state participation (BSB), under trust management or under another name. These included VEB Breitkopf & Härtel , VEB Edition Peters , VEB Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag , VEB Brockhaus Leipzig , VEB Bibliographisches Institut , BSB BG Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft , Reclam-Verlag and the publishing house Andersen Nexö . In 1963 Urania-Verlag moved its headquarters from Jena here.

The graphic quarter was partially rebuilt after the war, but the building fabric was more and more neglected during the GDR era. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the graphic quarter was revitalized through resettlement and relocation of companies as well as renovations and new buildings.

In 1991, the Breitkopf & Härtel parent company was transferred back to the publishing house, which has since operated as "Breitkopf & Härtel - Wiesbaden, Leipzig, Paris". From 1996 to 2016 the Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag had its headquarters in the Graphisches Viertel, Edition Peters moved its headquarters to Leipzig in 2014.

The Brockhaus Center was built from 1993 to 1995, later the Listbogen and the Gutenberg Gallery . The Reclam building was renovated. On December 4th, 1993, the 50th anniversary of the destruction of the Graphic Quarter, the groundbreaking ceremony for the building of the House of Books took place on the site of the German Booksellers House . It was opened in 1996, and since 2005 the Literaturhaus Leipzig has been located in it . In 2018, the Reclam Museum was opened opposite the former Reclam publishing house .

In addition to buildings for the printing and publishing industry, the Graphic Quarter also includes other buildings such as the Schumann House and villas of manufacturers and publishers such as the Villa Schröder in the Seeburg district and the Villa Weber on Marienplatz .

The graphic quarter is part of the Unesco initiative Leipziger Notenspur .

literature

  • Herbert Kästner : "What Leipzig prints is gorgeous". In: Ulla Heise , Nortrud Lippold (Ed.): Leipzig on foot. 22 city tours. Forum, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-87975-543-4 , pp. 99-112.
  • Mark Lehmstedt : From Quandt's court to the house of the book. In: Herbert Kästner (Red.): The house of the book in Leipzig. At its opening. Kuratorium Haus des Buches, Leipzig 1996.
  • Sabine Knopf: Walks through the graphic quarter. In: Sabine Knopf, Volker Title: The Leipziger Gutenbergweg. History and topography of a book city. Sax, Beucha 2001, ISBN 3-934544-04-5 , pp. 85-125.
  • Sabine Knopf: Book City Leipzig. The historical travel guide. Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-634-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Editor Thomas Nabert . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-82-6 , p. 195.
  • Annette Menting : Graphic Quarter and Seeburg Quarter. In: Reclam's City Guide Leipzig. Architecture and art. Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-019259-7 , pp. 111-119.

Web links

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

References and comments

  1. ^ Lutz Heydick: Leipzig. Historical guide to town and country. Urania, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-332-00337-2 , p. 60
  2. ↑ Integrated district development concept Leipzig East ( Memento from February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), p. 5 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
  3. ^ Karl-Rudolf Böttger: New Leipzig pocket dictionary for locals and foreigners. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-933240-51-4 , p. 72 ( Google books ).
  4. ↑ Herbert Kästner: "What Leipzig prints, be splendidly beautiful". In: Ulla Heise, Nortrud Lippold (Ed.): Leipzig on foot. 22 city tours. Forum, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-87975-543-4 , p. 99, p. 108
  5. ↑ Herbert Kästner: "What Leipzig prints, be splendidly beautiful". In: Ulla Heise, Nortrud Lippold (Ed.): Leipzig on foot. 22 city tours. Forum, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-87975-543-4 , p. 108
  6. ↑ Graphisches Viertel on architektur-blicklicht.de
  7. ^ The story of Breitkopf & Härtel ( Memento from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Lars Schumann: Reclam Museum in Leipzig was opened. Reference library and permanent exhibition at Kreuzstraße 12 at leipziginfo.de, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 31, 2018
  9. ↑ The location used as the source can be viewed here

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 15.4 ″  E