Kapuzinerstrasse (Mainz)

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The Kapuzinerstraße in Mainz old town
The facade of house number 13

The Kapuzinerstraße is a city road in Mainz-Altstadt . It got its name because of the Capuchin monastery in Mainz, which was located here in the past . The almost 300 meter long street is now a monument zone .

history

The story of Kapuzinerstraße began in the former Mainz fishing suburb of Selenhofen am Rhein . From the beginning of the 13th century, Kapuzinerstraße developed from Selenhofer Hauptstraße. At the western end of Kapuzinerstraße there used to be the city wall of Roman Mainz , at the other end it led to the Rhine. The street was initially called "Obere Bocksgasse". The name is derived from the old gate to which the street led. Kapuzinerstraße today bears the name of the Capuchin Monastery of Mainz, which was formerly nearby. The Capuchins came to Mainz in 1618 at the request of the former Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg . Today there are hardly any traces of the work of the Capuchins in Mainz in Kapuzinerstrasse. In addition, the street name "Ignazgasse", which was derived from the St. Ignaz Church located here, was used for a long time up to this name .

Until the dissolution of the Knights Templar in 1312, there were buildings of the Knights Templar at the northern end of Kapuzinerstrasse. Then the spacious property was sold to different people. Today you can still find remains of the Gothic wall at the back of the house at Kapuzinerstraße 52. In 1806 the Capuchin Church in Kapuzinerstraße 17 A to 19 B was demolished, the foundation walls were to be used for the construction of the Josephinen Hospital according to plans by Departmental Building Director Eustache de Saint-Far . Parts of the Josephinen Hospital can be rediscovered in the floor plans of the rear buildings of the buildings Kapuzinerstraße 17 A to 19 B and in the houses on Neutorstraße . As a result, the Kapuzinerstrasse was built on, especially by wealthy citizens with large buildings. In 1866 the street was finally completely built up. Most of the houses were built as town houses from the 16th century to the 19th century . The residents were mostly fishermen , ship workers and ferrymen . The house in Kapuzinerstraße 21/21 B, planned by Wilhelm Hahn in 1902, is particularly important for the appearance of the street.

The street has been almost completely preserved to this day. During the Second World War, almost exclusively a group of houses to the north-west of St. Ignaz Church and the row of houses at Kapuzinerstraße 8 to 14 were damaged. Today there is a square that now allows a clear view of the church from the moat. In addition, the importance of Kapuzinerstraße decreased with the expansion of Neutorstraße as a new main road to the south.

architecture

The houses at Kapuzinerstraße 33 and 35

The street is paved along its entire length . Almost all buildings are eaves . With the exception of a few changes to the front on the western side of the street, the course of the street is identical to the street in the Middle Ages . The most important building is the St. Ignaz Church. The parish church of the "Ignaz-Quarter" stood in its place until 1763. The forecourt of the church, which was built after the Second World War, is striking. The buildings Kapuzinerstraße 14 to 42 and 44, 46, 48, 50, 52 and 54 are particularly worth preserving. They correspond to the original street development up to the 20th century and form the monument zone Kapuzinerstraße. In addition, the half-timbered houses with slate and plaster as well as the dominant ground floor and mid-height buildings are particularly striking. The house entrances are usually lavishly decorated and stylistically significant. The plaster mostly comes from the Baroque period .

Initially, simple town houses were built. One example of this are the houses at Kapuzinerstrasse 33 and 35, which date from the 17th century. After that, at the end of the 18th century, mainly larger and higher structures were built. In the 19th and 20th centuries, near the old Capuchin monastery at Kapuzinerstraße 14 to 16, several large, simple, four-storey apartment buildings were built . Most of the cellars have been preserved from them today. There are isolated paths in Kapuzinerstrasse that led to previous workplaces on and on the Rhine. They are paved and lead between houses from the street towards the Rhine. Due to the expansion of the banks of the Rhine in the 19th century and the establishment of the Malakoff Center in the 20th century, they only lead to Rheinstrasse today .

See also

literature

  • Ewald Wegner (editor) with the participation of Hans Caspary, Paul-Georg Custodis, Ludwig Falck and Gerd Rupprecht: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.2: City of Mainz. Old town. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988: pp. 230-239. ISBN 3-491-31036-9

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Directory of cultural monuments District- free city of Mainz (PDF; 1.6 MB) on denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ewald Wegner (editor) with the participation of Hans Caspary, Paul-Georg Custodis, Ludwig Falck and Gerd Rupprecht: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.2: City of Mainz. Old town. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988: pp. 230-239. ISBN 3-491-31036-9
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ordinance on the protection of the monument zone "Kapuzinerstraße" in Mainz according to § 8 i. V. m. § 4 and § 5 Monument Protection and Maintenance Act (DSchPflG) (PDF; 120 kB)

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 43.9 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 41.9"  E