Kornmarkt (Wesel)
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 Partial view of the Kornmarkt with Willibrordi Cathedral in the background (2019) |
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| place | Wesel |
| District | Old town |
| Created | December 1495 |
| Buildings | On the northern edge of the town hall, adult education center and city library ; historical u. a. Herzogl. lock |
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| User groups | Foot traffic ; Car / bicycle traffic on the east side |
The Kornmarkt is a centrally located square in the Wesel city center. It has been used as a marketplace since 1495 and is today of particular gastronomic importance.
location
The Kornmarkt is located in the inner city center of Wesel around 100 meters north of the Great Market , which is the location of the Willibrordi Cathedral . The two marketplaces are separated by a block and connected via Dimmerstrasse and Köppeltorstrasse. Directly north of the Kornmarkt there is a complex that was inaugurated in 1974 and 1975 with today's town hall, the Wesel-Hamminkeln-Schermbeck adult education center and the Wesel city library .
history
The square is located in the historically oldest part of Wesel city center. It is considered a possible location of a Franconian estate, which presumably represented the origin of the modern city in the early Middle Ages. As early as the Middle Ages, there was a square at the site of today's Kornmarkt, but it was heavily built up on the sides and therefore significantly smaller. It was located at the meeting point of four streets and was called uppen Brink or Auf dem Brink . This name describes an elevated grass area. In fact, the Kornmarkt is still a little higher than Johannisstrasse in its northwest. Wesel received city rights in 1241, was accepted into the Hanseatic League in 1407 and experienced a corresponding boom in the late Middle Ages. In 1291, the foundation of a piece of land on the edge of what would later become the Kornmarkt marked the beginning of the construction of the St. John's Church and an adjacent hospital. Between 1438 and 1443 the ducal palace was also built on the edge of the square. Its owners were the dukes of Kleve , whose rule was under Wesel in the late Middle Ages.
On December 1, 1495, the Wesel magistrate decided to move the cattle market , which had previously been held at the Viehor gate , to the square at the Ducal Palace. That decision was announced three days later. Farm animals of all kinds were offered for sale, but the name for the place emerged as the ox market and the pig market . Later the term Verkensmarkt was the most common. In 1560, a first expansion of the market square was made possible by buying part of the garden from the Franciscan monastery adjoining it to the south. In 1562 the square was also paved. The square got its current size in 1646 on the initiative of Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen , who lived in the ducal palace as governor Wesel and achieved an enlargement of the square by demolishing the Franciscan monastery and two other buildings. This happened at that time against the resistance of the Wesel city council. In the 17th century the current name as Kornmarkt emerged because the trade in grain on the marketplace had become increasingly important. However, other goods and pigs continued to be traded. When the range of goods changed, its use as a marketplace was retained over the centuries.
The adjacent historically significant buildings are no longer preserved today. The Johanniterkirche lost its importance in the 16th century and in 1806 the former property of the Order of St. John was secularized. The so-called Johanniter Commandery stood in its place until 1945 on the edge of the Kornmarkt and was used for various purposes. The ducal castle later became the command office as the command authority of the Wesel fortress. After the fortress was dismantled, it was used for other purposes, e.g. B. from 1936 for the municipal museum. In 1945 it was destroyed as a result of the Second World War. When the city center programs to rebuild the city center began in 1950, the Kornmarkt was one of the first projects and quickly developed again on its west side. Completing the row of houses on the east side, on the other hand, took significantly more time. During the reconstruction, a historicizing design of the buildings was implemented on the east, south and west sides of the square .
Todays use
The Kornmarkt is considered the gastronomic focus of Wesel and is planned accordingly in the city planning. In summer, the catering is supplemented by the square, so that a kind of large beer garden is created. Twice a week the Kornmarkt as well as the neighboring Grosse Markt is the location of the Weseler Wochemarkt. Since 2005 there has been a city run every autumn on the Kornmarkt with a “health day” as a supporting program. The Kornmarkt is the start and finish point for the running event. On its east side, the Kornmarkt is a one-way street and can be driven on from both sides by cyclists, although there is a night driving ban for motor vehicles.
Individual evidence
- ↑ January 2nd, 1975 - opening of the center (wesel.de)
- ^ Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rheinische Ausgrabungen 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, p. 438, plate 219. ISBN 3-7927-1247-4
- ↑ a b In December 1495 the city set up a new market in front of the ducal castle (wesel.de)
- ↑ a b Communication No. 107 (historical-vereinigung-wesel.de)
- ↑ Communication No. 145 (historical-vereinigung-wesel.de)
- ↑ History of the Municipal Museum (wesel.de)
- ^ The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, 2009, p. 53, p. 189
- ^ The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, 2009, p. 185
- ↑ Concept for the development of the inner city of Wesel (wesel.de)
- ↑ District of Wesel (ruhr-barrierefrei.de)
- ↑ Health Day ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (hanse-citylauf-wesel.de)
- ↑ Motorists ignore the ban on parking on the Kornmarkt (derwesten.de)
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 28.4 " N , 6 ° 36 ′ 40.9" E