Lenauplatz
The Lenauplatz is located in the Cologne district Neuehrenfeld in the district Ehrenfeld .
It is part of the " Ehrenfeld history trail ". As its station 24, a plaque was put up in the basin of the Max-und-Moritz fountain. The square was named after the Austrian writer Nikolaus Lenau (* 1802, † 1850).
Plant and architecture
The Lenauplatz is trapezoidal. Clockwise, it is enclosed by the street of the same name Lenauplatz, Landmannstrasse, Lenaustraße and Hauffstraße. Its inner surface is approx. 1500 m² and is surrounded by linden trees .
On the square there is a little booth , the Max and Moritz fountain, a telephone column , a mailbox and a table tennis table as well as six benches. At the southern corner of the square there is a taxi stop with a call box .
Lenauplatz is surrounded by four-story residential and commercial buildings on three sides. These were built at the beginning of the twentieth century in the style of the Wilhelminian style architecture. Most of these are still handsome and well-restored facades in their original appearance.
On the northeast side of the square is a two-storey building with a stucco facade that was erected around 1925 as a cinema . It was reopened in 1949 as the "Lenau Theater". The cinema closed at the end of the 1960s and was converted into a supermarket of the Stüssgen chain, hardly changed externally . Today it houses a REWE branch.
After the roadway, parking lots and sidewalks around the square were renovated in 2007, the interior of the square was renovated from the end of 2009 to March 2010. For this purpose, trees were felled and replanted, benches were placed in a new quiet zone around the Max and Moritz fountain and an area was created for the game of pétanque . Several lighting fixtures were also installed in the square.
History of the place
The Neuehrenfeld district was conceived as a planned town around the turn of the century , and with it Lenauplatz. New demands were placed on living, which is why it was not designed as a market square, like some older squares in the city district, but as the tree-lined center of the new city district. The large landowner Alois Schlösser owned, among other things, the Subbelrath manor and the Schlösser gardens in the area of today's Neuehrenfeld. While he benefited from the sale of some of his land as building land for the new district, he donated the land for the Lenauplatz to the city.
Magnificent town houses were built on Lenauplatz and in the surrounding streets, with commercial space for restaurants and shops on the ground floors. Even today, Landmanstrasse in particular proves to be a business center for Neuehrenfeld. In terms of gastronomy, the streets around Lenauplatz are still the focal point of the district.
The tram built to open up Neuehrenfeld came from Landmannstrasse and crossed Lenauplatz, before turning onto Iltisstrasse. In 1958 the tram was moved to the wider, parallel Nussbaumerstrasse.
Max and Moritz fountain
The cast iron fountain sculpture was created by the Cologne sculptor Hein Derichsweiler (* 1897, † 1972). The 1.50-meter-high fountain depicts Max and Moritz, the two characters from the children's book by Wilhelm Busch in " leapfrog ". It was in 1960 set up as a gift of the civic association Ehrenfeld and by the former Cologne Mayor Theo Burauen inaugurated.
traffic
In terms of urban planning, two axes leading to the Neuehrenfeld churches meet at Lenauplatz: Eichendorffstrasse leads from St. Anna over the Ehrenfeldgürtel to Lenauplatz. From there it goes over the Hauffstraße towards Subbelrather Straße to the church of St. Peter on Simarplatz. Due to the extensive one-way street regulation around the square, however, this route can only be mastered on foot or by bike today.
A frequently used road connection between Neuehrenfeld, Cologne-Bickendorf and Cologne-Ossendorf to Ehrenfeld via Iltisstraße and Hauffstraße touches the Lenauplatz, which is therefore heavily burdened by car traffic during the day due to the high level of shopping traffic. The square has no longer been used directly by buses or trains since 1958. The KVB stop "Lenauplatz" is located 200 m from the square on Iltisstrasse.
literature
- Johannes Maubach: Across Ehrenfeld, Ehrenfeld History Path (Part 2). Self-published, Cologne, 2002.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Maubach: Across Ehrenfeld, Ehrenfelder Geschichtspfad (Part 2). Self-published, Cologne, 2002, p. 61
- ^ Monument directory Cologne, district 4, The State Conservator, edited by Hiltrud Kier , Fried Mühlenberg , Henriette Meynen and Ulrich Krings ; Cologne 1977, p. 122
- ↑ Der neue Film 82/1954, quoted in: www.allekinos.com, online , accessed on September 24, 2012.
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 25 ″ N , 6 ° 55 ′ 8 ″ E