Leibnizplatz

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Leibnizplatz
Bremen coat of arms (middle) .svg
Place in Bremen
Leibnizplatz
School at Leibnizplatz
Basic data
city Bremen
district Neustadt
Confluent streets Friedrich-Ebert-Str. , Buntentorsteinweg , Neustadtscontrescarpe , Neustadtswall, Osterstr., Hegelstr., Kantstr., Hermannstr.
use
User groups Road traffic, tram, pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic

The Leibnizplatz is a historic, small place in Bremen in the district of Neustadt on the district Buntentor.

The square was named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), the universal German philosopher , scientist , mathematician , diplomat , physicist , historian and librarian .

Streets in the square

The streets on the square were named as Friedrich-Ebert-Straße after the politician (SPD) and Reich President Friedrich Ebert , Buntentorsteinweg after the former Bunter Tor , Neustadtscontrescarpe after the counter wall of the Bremen city fortifications , Neustadtswall after the wall of the fortress, Osterstraße after the eastern one Location in the Alte Neustadt , Hegelstraße after the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Kantstraße after the philosopher of the Enlightenment Immanuel Kant and Hermannstraße after a property owner.

history

The area of ​​the later Leibnizplatz was isolated on the edge of the city moat for centuries. The Neustadt fortifications, built from 1623 onwards, had lost their military meaning at the end of the 18th century and were removed from 1805, but the moat remained, and the road from the old town ended in front of it. Between 1891 and 1903 the moat was filled in a little further to the west and Schulstrasse was created. The filling east of Schulstrasse did not take place until 1911, only the Piepe remained as the remainder of the moat. Leibnizplatz and the part of today's Friedrich-Ebert-Straße that runs south from it were built by 1914 .

Buildings in place

Bremer shakespeare company : Theater building on Leibnizplatz
Centaur fountain from 1891
Sculpture seated couple from 1973
The juggler
  • School on Leibnizplatz , three-storey, listed red stone building from 1909 based on plans by master builder Max Fritzsche from the Building Inspectorate II (later Building Department Bremen ) in the style of the turn of the century with Art Nouveau elements ; today a high school .
  • Theater am Leibnizplatz of the Bremen shakespeare company from 1983 on the school grounds.
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse No. 101-109 corner of Neustadtscontrescarpe 44: 3-storey. Neoclassical plastered building with hipped roofs from around 1900. This was the headquarters of the Sie brothers until 1973 . Since 1974 the district library Neustadt (until 2004), the office for advisory affairs south, later the local office Neustadt / Woltmershausen (until around 1988) and the office for (family support and) social services , department south (until around 1980 ) were in the now August-Hagedorn -Haus ) housed. After renovations, the building complex has been used as the center of the SOS Children's Village in Bremen and again by the local office since 2010/11 . Furthermore, there are now several apartments in the house.
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Straße No. 6 to 26, opposite the school: 2-storied. Commercial buildings (shops) based on plans by Herbert Anker and Gerhard Müller-Menckens .
  • Neustadtswall No. 85: 8-gesch. Residential high-rise with cambio CarSharing station Leibniz
  • Otherwise 2 to 4 sections. Residential and commercial buildings.

Art objects

  • The bronze sculpture The Juggler from 1991 by the Worpswede sculptor Christoph Fischer is intended as an entertainer to create a connection to the Bremen shakespeare company in the Theater am Leibnizplatz. She's right on the square.
  • There are two more properties in the Neustadtwall complex to the southwest:
    • The Centaurenbrunnen (also Centaurenbrunnen ), a horse man fighting with a snake (Centaur, from Latin centaurus , also Centaur ), made of stone (basin) and bronze (figure) from 1890/1891 by August Sommer has been in the Leibnizplatzpark south of the Friedrich since 1958 -Ebert-Strasse.
    • The bronze sculpture Seated Couple from 1983 was made by the sculptor Alice Peters and is located in the green area north of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße.

traffic

The lines 4 ( Lilienthal - Hauptbahnhof - Arsten ) and 6 ( University - Hauptbahnhof - Airport ) of the Bremen tram pass the square.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  2. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  3. ↑ k: art in public space bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 11.3 "  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 57.9"  E