Hallmarkt

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East side of the Hallmarkt with substation and Marienkirche
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The Hall Market in Halle (Saale) is one of the medieval settlement centers of the city, center of salt production and is now a late nineteenth court system. The square is located in the west of the city center between the market square and the tanner's hall, a side arm of the Saale, which is now built over .

history

For centuries, the area of ​​today's square was the center of Halle's salt production and processing. Brine was extracted from four wells ( Deutscher Born , Hackeborn , Meteritz and Gutjahrbrunnen ) in the area and processed into salt in the boiling huts (Salzkoten). The area, also known as Thal , had its own administration and jurisdiction, which was located in the Thalamt on Hallmarkt , which was built in 1464 and demolished in 1881 . Parts of the interior (two rooms from 1594 and 1616) are now in Moritzburg , where a replica of the building was erected. The boiling huts were essentially simple half-timbered buildings that existed chaotically in the area until around 1790. Then the boiling huts were demolished and replaced by two larger boiling houses belonging to the pancake . In 1869 the partnership-based salt works ceased operations. The salt production was transferred to the royal Prussian saltworks on the saline peninsula. The city acquired the site and began with the preparations for the construction of today's square by building over the donor rooms and demolishing the city wall that bounded the area to the west.

During the popular uprising in the GDR , the city of Halle was one of the centers of unrest. Several thousand citizens who had gathered in Hallmarkt to demonstrate for free elections and fairer wages were dispersed using Soviet tanks. To commemorate this day, the Hallmarkt has had the addition of "Platz des 17. Juni" since 2003.

Development

West side with Göbelbrunnen, tax office (right) and commercial building (left)

In the north and south, the square is bounded by Wilhelminian-style perimeter blocks that were built between 1885 and 1910. The current city ​​library , built in 1905 as a reading room, is located in the south . In the east, a substation created in neo-Romanesque style by Wilhelm Jost in 1924 forms the edge of the square, which is architecturally reminiscent of a Roman fort and bridges the height difference between the Hallmarkt and the higher-lying Hauptmarkt. The substation was built on two floors on an H-shaped floor plan with an integrated staircase. The technical systems were located in the basement, apartments for servants on the upper floor. After structural renovation, the substation has been used by a grocery store (basement) and a restaurant since 2011. The building stands at the foot of the so-called Blue Peaks, the western pair of towers of the Market Church of Our Dear Women . The square is axially aligned with the church . In the west of the square there is a fountain by the sculptor Bernd Göbel , who is characterized by its wealth of figures with many references to the history of the city of Halle.

A large excavation pit followed to the west of the Hallmarkt. This was created in the course of the redevelopment of the area ("tip") between Hallmarkt and the Saalearm Mühlgraben in the final phase of the GDR , which wanted to build a multi-purpose hall there, similar to the Kulturpalast in Dresden . Plans after 1990 to close the gap by building a department store or building the university's new humanities center have repeatedly been rejected. In January 2014, the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt awarded the contract for the new construction of the Halle tax office to the owner of the construction hole at the top, Günter Papenburg AG. In 2016, the tax office was completed and in June 2017 a commercial building built on the left was inaugurated, in which the main tenant is a B&B hotel with 102 rooms. With these two buildings, the Hallmarkt is closed again on its western side.

literature

  • Holger Brülls / Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hallmarkt (Halle)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Foundation processing : Evaluation of the call for "Places of Remembrance" (PDF; 70 kB)
  2. Bernd Göbel, Hans-Georg Sehrt: The Göbel fountain. Origin, passage of time, turbulence. With a foreword from the Mayor of the time, Klaus Peter Rauen . Halle (Saale) 1998, 40 pages, 29 cm × 21 cm, without ISBN, in the holdings of the DNB
  3. You are Halle: New commercial building inaugurated on Hallmarkt.Retrieved December 12, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 56 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 59 ″  E