Johannisplatz (Leipzig)

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Johannisplatz
Coat of arms of Leipzig, svg
Place in Leipzig
Johannisplatz
Johannisplatz towards the Grassimuseum (2019)
Basic data
place Leipzig
District Center-Southeast
Created around 1850
Confluent streets Grimmaischer Steinweg , Prager and Dresdner Strasse, Querstrasse and Nürnberger Strasse
Buildings Grassi Museum
use
User groups Car traffic , public transport , foot traffic
Technical specifications
Square area approx. 1.0 ha

The Johannisplatz is a place east of Leipzig city center. It belongs to the district center-southeast. Its name goes back to the Johanniskirche that used to stand here .

Location and shape

Johannisplatz is at the fork of the Grimmaischen Steinweg in the Dresdner and the Prager Straße, whereby the streets up to five lanes wide with their adjacent buildings are counted as part of the square. There are tram stops in both streets (lines 3, 4, 7 and 12, or 15). The streets are flanked by Dutch linden trees . The square is about 180 meters long and 110 meters wide at the eastern end.

Its center is a meadow with two rows of trees of nine or ten Japanese carnations cherry trees in 1980, a Japanese pagoda tree from 1985 and on the south side of European ash and copper beech slightly increased both is from 1930. The meadow against the street level and bordered by a flat wall, which is interrupted by four steps on the east and west side. An inconspicuous bronze plaque on the history of the square and the church is attached to the north side of the meadow. In the middle of the meadow there is a commemorative cross from 2013 to the former Johanniskirche, and behind it a square stone border marks the place where the joint grave of Johann Sebastian Bach and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert was in the former church .

On the south side there are still some old buildings under monument protection in block perimeter development, such as on the corner of Nürnberger Strasse the “Prager's Biertunnel” from the middle of the 19th century and restored in 2010, which now contains the hotel “Schlaf gut” and the cat café “Katzentempel” . The house on the next corner from 1936 is adorned with the statue of Alfred Thiele's laundress , and the former “Opelhaus” from 1926 is set back. The east side of the square forms the front of the Grassi Museum . On the north side is the 140 meter long, 40 meter set back, ten-storey prefabricated building from the early 1970s (architect Erich Böhme ). The corner to Querstraße is the "Praxisklinik Johannisplatz", which was built in several stages from 2001.

history

The Johannishospital , which was built east of the city in 1278 , also had a cemetery . The cemetery chapel was replaced by the church of St. Johannis in the 14th century . Destroyed several times, it was rebuilt each time and was given a representative baroque tower by master builder George Werner in the middle of the 18th century .

The cemetery was designated as the general burial place of the city of Leipzig in 1536 by Duke Georg the Bearded . It surrounded the church and on the city side reached into the fork in the road. To the east it was expanded several times until the Neue Johannisfriedhof was opened further outside in 1846 . Now the immediate vicinity of the church was given up as a cemetery and the cemetery wall was torn down so that the church stood free on a square, Johannisplatz, which was named as early as 1839.

In 1883 , the bronze Reformation monument created by Johannes Schilling was inaugurated on the square in front of the church , which was melted down in 1943 for war purposes. The nave of the church was rebuilt in a neo-baroque style from 1894–1897 by city architect Hugo Licht . In 1901 the Hotel Stadt Dresden on the north side of the square was replaced by the more representative Hotel Sachsenhof (architect August Hermann Schmidt ). From 1925 to 1929 the New Grassi Museum was built on the site of the Old Johannis Hospital .

During the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , the buildings on Johannisplatz were almost completely destroyed or damaged. The ruins of the Johanniskirche were torn down in 1949. The still somewhat preserved tower was partially renovated in 1956 with a view to later use as a viewpoint from the direction of Augustusplatz, but in 1963 it was blown up and the meadow laid out. In 2003 the citizens' association Johanniskirchturm e. V. with the aim of rebuilding the church tower at its historical location.

From 1954 until at least after 1966, the Leipziger Friedensfahrt monument stood on the south side of the square in front of the copper beech .

literature

  • The Johannisplatz. A historical and urban study. ProLeipzig, 1993
  • Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 113 .
  • Petra Mewes, Peter Benecken: Leipzig's Green - A Park and Garden Guide . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-938543-49-8 , pp. 139/140 .

Web links

Commons : Johannisplatz  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Select level park and street trees. In: Plan of the city of Leipzig. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  2. Former Opel car dealership Otto Kühn on Johannisplatz. In: www.architektur-blicklicht. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ History. In: Practice Clinic at Johannisplatz Leipzig. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 16 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 11 ″  E