Lessingplatz (Braunschweig)

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 31.7 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 26 ″  E

Map of Lessingplatz

The Lessing monument erected in 1853 . The building in the background is the former garrison school .

The Lessingplatz is a place in downtown Brunswick .

The square, named after the German poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , who was buried in Braunschweig's Magnifriedhof , was originally part of the area “Hinter Aegidien” (i.e. behind the Aegidienkirche ). The name “Lessingplatz” first appeared in 1858. Between 1933 and 1950 the entire square was called “Siegesplatz” . Today's Lessingplatz actually arose from originally two squares, the old, so-called “small” Lessingplatz around the Lessing monument and the larger, formerly “Siegesplatz” located to the south .

Victory place

The Victory Monument from 1881

Villa Salve Hospes

Before 1881, the Siegesplatz was called “Am Gänsewinkel” (so occupied in 1841) and later “Tummelplatz” (1846). In the middle of the square there is a green area in the center of which the bronze “Victory Monument” was supposed to commemorate the victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. The design came from Adolf Breymann and Robert Diez , it was executed by Hermann Heinrich Howaldt . It was there from the day it was set up, April 26, 1881, until World War II when it was melted down. Siegesplatz was part of the wall ring around the city center, which was laid out as a promenade .

Lessingplatz

Lessingplatz, first mentioned in 1858, is today part of the new city ​​ring , from which the Bruchtorwall, Konrad-Adenauer-Straße, Augusttorwall, John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, Nîmes-Straße, Hinter Aegidien and the From Mönchstrasse.

Lessingplatz ensemble

Architecturally, Lessingplatz forms an interesting ensemble of the most diverse buildings and facilities from over two centuries. The former garrison school is adjacent to it on the north side . To the east is the Kennedy School. To the south is the Villa Salve Hospes , built by Peter Joseph Krahe between 1805 and 1809 , the former orangery , Hollandt's garden and the city of Braunschweig's “Urban Green” department . The Stadtbad and the northern part of the Bürgerpark are located a little further south .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, p. 144
2. ↑ Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweigs Streets - their names and their stories, Volume 1: Innenstadt , Cremlingen 1995, p. 206

literature

• Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992
• Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories, Volume 1: Innenstadt , Cremlingen 1995

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