Craftsman passage

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In the Handwerkerpassage, with the window cleaner fountain (2011)

The Handwerkerpassage in Leipzig is about 75 meters long and more than half the length open passage from the market to the Klostergasse. It only bears his name since the restoration and reactivation of 1987–1989. It includes retail, service facilities and hospitality.

history

The entrance building at Markt 10 to the Handwerkerpassage was built in 1845/1846 according to plans by the Leipzig architect Eduard Pötzsch (1803-1889). It became known under the name "Kaufhalle". The previous building was built in the 16th century by the Saiger hut owner Moritz Buchler. The Russian city commander Victor von Prendel (1766-1852) had his official seat there after the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig .

The "Kaufhalle" access building
Del Vecchio 1885.jpg
Handwerkerpassage general view Leipzig.jpg


around 1885
... and 2010

The department store from 1845/1846 is a late Classicist five-storey building from which two wings continue to the west, between which there was the passage courtyard for the trade fair shops. The rhythm of the window axes of the three upper floors is dissolved on the fifth floor and in the gable. The ornamentation of the window decorations is reminiscent of the Schinkel building decor . At the time it was built, there were 41 sales outlets in the courtyard. The department store became famous for the largest art dealer in Leipzig, the Galerie Del Vecchio , which was established on the second floor until 1792 . The department store was spared major damage during the Second World War . During the renovation in 1997/1998, the two sculptures Industry and Commerce were put up again on the balcony parapet on the second floor.

The passage access in the Klostergasse leads through a four-story building with five window axes. It is adjacent to the Zills Tunnel restaurant . This has rented a guest room on the ground floor, the monastery room, which has access from the passage. There is another connection between the Handwerkerpassage and the Barfußgäßchen.

  • Entrance Klostergasse 16 (2018)

  • The apartment buildings (right) (2018)

Between the Kaufhalle and Zills Tunnel, the Handwerkerpassage is separated from the Barfußgäßchen by three narrow historic houses (Barfußgäßchen No. 3, 5 and 7). These so-called apartment buildings, or apartment buildings, were also built by Moritz Buchler in 1511 and added to in the 19th century. This makes them the oldest dated residential buildings in Leipzig. Towards the Handwerkerpassage, the exhibition vaults are still preserved in them. Like the department store, they are under monument protection.

Notice board for the construction of the passage (2011)

At the end of the 1980s, the Kaufhof tradition was to be revived in the courtyard of the Kaufhalle. Since the design of the passage was mainly done by the Leipzig handicrafts, the name Handwerkerpassage was coined in 1989. At the beginning of the 1990s, the buildings in the Handwerkerpassage were part of the property owned by the building contractor Jürgen Schneider in Leipzig .

The window cleaner fountain was also built at this time. In the open part of the passage, on a fountain made of disc elements, there is a 50 cm high bronze statue by the sculptor Christian Rost, which depicts a window cleaner leaning against a ladder. The statue was stolen on the night of March 27, 2012, but reappeared in a container for recycling material in May .

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél: Handwerkerpassage . In: The Leipziger Passagen & Höfe. Architecture of European standing . Sax-Verlag Beucha • Markkleeberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86729-087-6 , pp. 68–69 and 118
  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 43 and 61 .

Web links

Commons : Handwerkerpassage  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hocquél: Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the Present , p. 43
  2. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Leipzig center (ID numbers 09298204-09298206 and 09298317)
  3. ↑ "Schneider Objects" in Leipzig City. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Matthias Roth: window cleaner stolen: statue stolen from the Leipziger Handwerkerpassage. In: LVZ. March 30, 2012, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Stolen bronze statue found in recycling container. In: bild.de. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 26.4 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 25.1"  E