Small college (Leipzig)
The Small College (because the founder and Small Fürstenkolleg ) was next to the Great College one of the two plots of land with buildings, the rulers, the Margrave of Meissen Friedrich and Wilhelm , 1409 the newly founded University of Leipzig donated. The buildings were used for teaching and also served as accommodation for the masters - there were eight in the small college - and the students. The remuneration of the Masters also belonged to the foundation.
The property of the Kleiner Kolleg was on Schloßgasse and also included a building donated by the city on Petersstrasse (see also Juridicum (Leipzig) ). As early as 1456/57, a building was exchanged with the artist faculty , and the Kleine Kolleg moved into an ensemble of buildings on Eselsplatz (from 1839 on Ritterplatz), today's east branch of Ritterstraße to Goethestraße. It consisted of a front building, a rear building and a few other small buildings. The front building was called "Fuchszagel" (= fox tail). This is one of the oldest traditional house names in Leipzig, but it was put out of use by the Kleine Kolleg.
Both the front and rear buildings were three-story half-timbered buildings at the time of the takeover. The front building with a gable roof stood with the gable facing the Ritterstrasse (see illustration), the rear building on the city wall. In the small college there were living and study rooms for the college students as well as numerous masters and students. For the students there was a bursa . In 1484 there were up to 300 residents in the entire complex of the Kleiner Kolleg. In 1602 extensive repairs were carried out on both buildings.
In 1817 both buildings were demolished and rebuilt. The rear building, facing the park at the Schwanenteich , was now used for purposes other than university. It contained rented apartments, a pub and a synagogue on the first floor . It was demolished in 1860 during the construction of the Royal Palace (today: Ritterstraße 26).
The front building was listed as a four-story building, as it can still be found today. A small eastern part fell victim to the construction of the Royal Palace in 1860. Before the First World War there were plans for a new building, but this was not done due to the war and then the crisis. The plans for roof and repair work in 1978 were also not carried out. It was only in the course of the renovation of all buildings in the Ritterstrasse institute and administration complex between 1994 and 2003 that the building was comprehensively renovated.
The house was used continuously by the university, for example in 1912 by the economics seminar and after 1945 by the musicological seminar and the art history institute. After its renovation, it will only be used by the university administration.
literature
- Senate Commission for Research into the History of Leipzig University and Science (Ed.): History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 , Volume 5: History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-305-1
- 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. 72/73
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 179
- ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig , p. 73
- ^ History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , p. 609
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 29 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 47 ″ E