Handelsweg (Braunschweig)

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The trade route (looking west)
Excerpt from Friedrich Wilhelm Culemann's city ​​map from 1789: In the center of the "Neuehof", which was converted into the "Sedanbazar" in 1872.

The Handelsweg is the oldest shopping mall in Braunschweig . Already laid out as Neuerhof at the end of the 18th century , it became the Sedanbazar in 1872 , which was renamed Handelsweg in 1928 . The 70 meters long passage running east-west direction in the historic precincts of the old town , where she Gördelingerstraße with the Broad Street connects.

history

The Braunschweig trade fairs had taken place several times a year since around 1500. After Braunschweig lost its independence in 1671 to the Guelph dukes, who at that time still resided in nearby Wolfenbüttel , the Brunswick Duke Rudolf August intended to revitalize the city's trade fairs and left some old houses near the old town market (Breite Straße 24 ( Assekuranznummer 889 and three more behind), demolish the so-called "Möllerhof" (Knoll calls it "Müllershof") after the last owner, the widow of Gottfried Möller) and build the "Neuenhof", which was equipped with vaulted walkways and sales stands. On the upper floors was u. a. the drawing room of the Braunschweig class lottery and, from 1821, the branch of the Fürstenberg porcelain factory . The building was owned by the Ducal Chamber, which it sold to a private individual almost 200 years later, around 1869.

The hotel owner Schröder, in turn, had the building complex demolished around 1870. As a result of the won Franco-German War of 1870/71 and the associated nationalist - chauvinist euphoria in the newly formed German Empire , more so-called "patriotic celebrations" took place across the empire. As the Emperor's birthday , or each on September 2, the " Sedan Day " to commemorate the victorious runny for German troops Battle of Sedan . Monuments were also erected and streets and squares were named after victorious battles and military leaders. The new shopping arcade, designed by the architect Heinrich Campe (1840–1913) in the neo-Gothic style, was christened the “Sedan-Bazar” in memory of the victorious battle. After the end of the First World War and the associated fall of the German Empire, the name "Sedanbazar" was increasingly viewed as out of date, so that the passage was finally given the new name "Handelsweg" in 1928.

How large parts of the near and far surroundings of the trade route, z. B. the old town market just a few meters south or the Bäckerklint a little further north, the passage was also badly damaged by Allied bombing during the Second World War , u. a. the glass roof was destroyed. From 1956 the reconstruction of the passage began with three-story houses. The glass roof was not restored.

Today there are trendy bars , cafés and various shops on the Handelsweg .

literature

Web links

Commons : Handelsweg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Passages. In Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 177 .
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Geist : Passages, a building type of the 19th century. Prestel 1969, p. 151.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 1: Inner City. Pp. 140-141.
  4. ↑ Hans Jürgen Querfurth: The submission of the city of Braunschweig in 1671 - the end of Braunschweig city freedom. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 16), orphanage book printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1953.
  5. ↑ Markus A. Denzel : The Brunswick trade fairs: trade, payment transactions and economic importance in the late 17th and 18th centuries. In: Jörg Leuschner , Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , Claudia Märtl (Hrsg.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 3: Modern Times. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13599-1 , p. 797.
  6. ^ Heinrich Meier : Proper names of the Brunswick town houses. In: Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Nro. 8, April 22, 1900, p. 58.
  7. ↑ a b Friedrich Knoll : Braunschweig and surroundings: historical-topographical manual and guide through the monuments and art treasures of the city. Braunschweig 1881, p. 116.
  8. ^ Heinrich Meier: The street names of the city of Braunschweig. P. 25.
  9. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Sadanbazar. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 210-211 .
  10. ^ Heinrich Meier: The street names of the city of Braunschweig. P. 25.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '49.4 "  N , 10 ° 31' 2.9"  E