Laurentiusplatz
The Laurentiusplatz is an inner-city square in Wuppertal district Elberfeld , formerly under the name of king place was known.
topography
The square is dominated by the Catholic Church of St. Laurentius (built 1828–1835), which is also today's namesake of the square. The square is on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße (the former Königstraße ), which is a single-lane commercial street here in the eastern part of the street. Behind the church is Luisenstrasse , after which the entire district is named. There are some restaurants around the square. A side street runs to the side of the square.
architecture
The square was laid out as a second weekly market in 1826 as part of the classicistic westward expansion of Elberfeld. The property, the so-called Osterfeld, was donated by Pastor Stephan Oberrhé , who wanted to give his steadily growing community a place for a new church to be built.
The church was built from 1828 to 1835. Since the financing caused great difficulties and even threatened a foreclosure auction of the shell, King Friedrich Wilhelm III supported. the community with a donation of 5000 thalers . In his honor, the church forecourt was later renamed " Königsplatz ".
A collection in the citizenry led to a competition for a monument in 1875, in which the sculptor Wilhelm Albermann with his model “German Unity, German Force” won first prize with less than 30 submitted designs. After three years of deliberations and significant design changes by donors and jury members, the monument was inaugurated on July 30, 1881. The monument that was erected in the center of the square no longer exists today.
Until the 1970s, there were larger trees in the whole area that was used as a parking lot. The square has been in its current state since a renovation. Three newly planted rows of trees each divide the area, which is completely paved , in the western and eastern third . Around 1900, small half-timbered pavilions were built on each side , which are still used today as a kiosk and café. These pavilions and numerous buildings around the square are registered as architectural monuments in the city's list of monuments.
Today the square is used for a small weekly market and also for city festivals, Christmas markets and events such as ice skating or beach volleyball.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Elberfeld district ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) by Wolfgang Mondorf
- ↑ City expansion to the west
- ^ History of the St. Laurentius Church in Wuppertal on catholic-citykirche-wuppertal.de, accessed June 26, 2016
- ^ Werner Schmidt: The sculptor Wilhelm Albermann (1835-1913). Life and work. Publications of the Cologne City Museum, Volume 3. Ed. Werner Schäfke . ISBN 3-927396-85-0 , pp. 106-107.
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 8 ′ 23" E