Lion wall

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 51 ″  E

The Lion Wall from the south, in the background the roof of the City Museum

Two of the four lions from the Löwenwall

The Lion Wall shortly after completion (1823)

The Löwenwall is a square in the shape of an oval with green areas in Braunschweig . It is located directly on the eastern flood ditch in the Magniviertel . There is an obelisk in the middle of the lion wall .

shape

The Lion Wall is enclosed by a path, which in turn is bordered on each side by a row of horse chestnuts . Two paths lead from the middle of the longer sides of the oval to the base of the obelisk, where there are four cast-iron lion statues by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow (a fifth lion wall lion was used for the lion fountain on the square north of the Katharinenkirche .). In the two halves of the lawn, which are separated by the path, there are two water basins with fountains in the middle.

history

Cup made by the Fürstenberg porcelain factory from around 1830

Until 1904 the Löwenwall was still called "Monumentplatz" . It was created between 1812 and 1820; its size is 3.1 hectares. It was created in connection with the redesign of the ramparts by Peter Joseph Krahe and was originally part of the "Augusttor Promenade" . It was as a memorial to the Brunswick dukes Charles William Ferdinand and Friedrich Wilhelm built in the wars of liberation against Napoleon had fallen. The obelisk was inaugurated on August 13, 1823.

In 1859 the hussar barracks were built on Monumentplatz, based on the plans of the architect Louis Kuhne . On May 8, 1866, the Tiemannsche Brunnentrinkanstalt was opened. In 1892 the municipal trade school moved into the former hussar barracks. In 1892 the hussars moved into the Mars-la-Tour barracks , a new building on Altewiekring .

At the beginning of the 20th century, work began on the Princely Garden of the former Dehnschen Palais (Princely Pleasure Garden). This was located on the northwest side of the lion wall. On May 6, 1906, the new building of the municipal museum was inaugurated there, which was built according to the plans of the architect Max Osterloh. On April 29, 1908, the municipal secondary school was inaugurated on Löwenwall .

In August 1958, the Gertz garden café was demolished. On April 26, 1965, the two fountains on the Löwenwall were put into operation.

In summer, the Löwenwall is often used as a lawn for sunbathing, and sports teachers from the nearby Gaußschule and Wilhelm-Gymnasium use it for their lessons.

Architectural monuments

Villa Gerloff (No. 16), now the home of the Brunswick Foundations, is on Löwenwall .

Impressions around the Löwenwall

"On Monumentplatz, which was later renamed 'Löwenwall', double rows of old chestnut trees surrounded the oval of the lawns with their fountains and the obelisk in the middle in May with their glowing flower candles, in autumn with golden yellowing."

- Ina Seidel : Three cities of my youth. DVA , Stuttgart 1960, p. 5.

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  Obelisk from 1823

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  Municipal Museum from 1861

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  Villa Gerloff from 1888/89

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  Gauss school from 1909

literature

• Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 .
• Gerd Spies (Ed.): The Braunschweiger Löwenwall. in: Braunschweig workpieces. City of Braunschweig Städt. Museum, Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-927-28828-4 . (Publications from the Municipal Museum, Series B, Volume 98.)

Web links

Commons : Löwenwall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sights of the traditional island Magniviertel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ View of the cavalry barracks according to the plans of Kuhne ( Memento from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ View of the municipal trade school around 1906 on publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de