Burgfeld (Lübeck)
The Burgfeld in Lübeck is an area immediately outside the old town . Gustav-Radbruch-Platz is the official name for the most striking part of the castle field with its large traffic island in the current development. However, this designation has not caught on in common parlance, so that genuine Luebeck language is only spoken of Burgfeld.
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The castle field is located north of the old town island, in front of the castle gate . Its name goes back to the Lübeck Castle, which has not existed since the 13th century and which is now occupied by the Castle Monastery . The area of the castle field cannot be determined because its boundaries were not precisely defined.
As the area in front of the Lübeck city fortifications , the castle field remained largely undeveloped over the centuries so as not to impair the field of fire. It was only after Lübeck was deconsolidated and after the end of the French era , but especially after the gate was lifted in 1864, that residential houses in the new suburb of St. Gertrud were built on Burgfeld , named after the St. Gertrud Chapel that used to be there .
In 1806, the Burgfeld was the main scene of the fighting between Prussian and French troops during the Battle of Lübeck .
The Burgfeld was used as a venue from 1852 to 1914. The annual Lübeck People's Festival and Remembrance Festival took place here, or a circus such as the Circus Corty & Althoff performed there .
The war directorate in Altona , seat of the XI. Army Corps , had already at the beginning of the First World War , since the place was considered particularly suitable for this, built a hospital consisting of 36 barracks with its own tram connection for the transport of the wounded from the train station to the premises of the barracks hospital . At that time, the area of the Burgfeld comprised today's square and extended up Israelsdorfer Allee to Adolfstrasse. The management and organization of the barracks hospital was entrusted to the Lübeck senior staff doctor. R. transferred. Even when it was planned, it was assumed that it would be the largest in the north. It is said that the hospital in this war was one of the largest within the empire , or was the largest.
In order to create a free area for events on the Burgfeld, the barrack hospital was demolished, but only partially due to the prevailing housing shortage. The folk festival returned to the Burgfeld until it was relocated to the new festival site on Travemünder Allee near Lauerholz in 1927. The remaining barracks became temporary apartments. Some of these were to remain inhabited until 1952.
On February 19, 1933, the last major demonstration against the National Socialists took place on Burgfeld with 15,000 participants . Julius Leber was present, but already with gag is why instead of his Fritz Solmitz said.
On June 6, 1963, the Burgfeld was renamed Gustav-Radbruch- Platz on the occasion of the topping-out ceremony of the new traffic distributor for city traffic , after the Burgfeld had already become a large roundabout and since then had developed into one of the most important hubs of the Lübeck bus network . The 120 m long pedestrian tunnel that was built at the same time from Roeckstrasse to today's hotel building was soon filled in again. Because of its curved design, the path could not be overlooked by passers-by and the tunnel was soon seen as an almost unmanageable safety risk.
To this day, Burgfeld is the common name in Lübeck for Gustav-Radbruch-Platz, which is only rarely mentioned by its official name, as well as for the public green space and sports fields along Travemünder Allee.
On the edge of the Burgfeld there is a replica of the “girl group” by the Swiss artist Karl Geiser in a small green area . The original was created for the Kirchenfeld high school in Bern. The replenishment is a donation from Lübeck's honorary citizen Rodolfo Groth , made by the Pastori art foundry in Geneva, and was originally intended to replace the market fountain that was demolished in 1934 . After the completion, a decision was made against this prominent location.
From 2016, the square will gradually be converted into two intersections with traffic lights. In September 2016, the well system from 1964 was demolished.
literature
- Jan Zimmermann: St. Gertrud. 1860-1945. A photographic foray. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-891-2 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ "Barracks camp." In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1914, No. 3, edition of October 18, 1914.
- ^ Müller: St. Gertrud p. 85
- ^ Klaus Bernhard: Plastic in Lübeck. Documentation of art in public space (1436–1985) (= publications of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Office for Culture. Series B, Vol. 8). Office for Culture, Lübeck 1986, ISBN 3-924214-31-X , No. 40.
- ↑ The first step in the reconstruction of the Burgfeld , accessed on September 17, 2016
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Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 44.4 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 46.7" E