High Lily (Leipzig)

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The Hohe Lilie house around 1920

Hohe Lilie was the name of a residential and commercial building in downtown Leipzig that existed until 1943 . It was the birthplace of the pianist and composer Clara Schumann .

Location and shape

The Hohe Lilie was the corner house from Neumarkt (until 1839 Neuer Neumarkt) to Preussergäßchen and had the house number Neumarkt 28. It was a relatively unadorned five-story building. It had nine window axes towards Neumarkt and six towards Preussergäßchen. Shops were housed on the ground floor, apartments were on the upper floors. An archway led to the courtyard, in which there were balcony galleries on the wing facing the Preussergäßchen.

history

The first mention of a building on this property dates back to 1539, when there is talk of an inn, which in 1559 is referred to as the golden lily and in another document as the high lily . The building in its later form was built in 1693, albeit still four-story, for a Dr. Konrad erected. In 1748, the Leipzig baroque master builder Christian Döring raised it by one floor to the last known shape.

Entrance in the Hohe Lilie, reminiscent of Clara Schumann

In 1818 the family of the music dealer and music teacher Friedrich Wieck moved into one of the apartments in the house . On September 13, 1819, the daughter Clara was born here, later the wife of Robert Schumann . As early as 1821 the family moved to an apartment in Salzgäßchen. The music publisher Carl August Klemm, who moved from Plauen to Leipzig in the Hohe Lilie, designed its entrance door in memory of Clara Schumann.

Around 1910, plots of land were bought in the area between Petersstrasse, Preußergäßchen and Neumarkt in order to build a large department store for the Düsseldorf company Theodor Althoff after the existing buildings were demolished . The High Lily was also affected. But its owner at that time, the grocer Ferdinand Sernau, refused to sell. So the corner of the high lily had to be left out of the building plans for the department store, and Clara Schumann's birthplace was retained.

During the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , both the department store and the Hohe Lilie building were destroyed. While the department store was rebuilt in several steps as the department store Centrum , the Hohe Lilie initially remained fallow until it was incorporated into the department store as a low-rise building in one of the reconstruction steps of the department store. When the department store was rebuilt as the Karstadt department store from 2004 to 2006 with the exception of the listed facade parts , the space of the former Hohe Lilie house was now fully integrated into the building.

literature

  • Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig. From the beginning to the end of the 18th century . 1st edition. tape 1 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-04-2 , pp. 398 .
  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 432 .

Web links

Commons : High Lily  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 155/156 .
  2. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 50

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 18 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 34 ″  E