Luitpoldstrasse (Weißenburg)

Luitpoldstrasse Wood market
Street in Weißenburg in Bavaria
Luitpoldstrasse to the east
Basic data
place	Weißenburg in Bavaria
District	Old town
Created	middle Ages
Buildings	Old Town Hall , Carmelite Church , Lebküchnerhaus
Technical specifications
Street length	approx. 170 meters

The Luitpoldstraße is a city road in White Castle in Bavaria , a district town in Central Franconia district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It forms the largest space of under ensemble protection standing Old Town White Petersburg . The earlier name Holzmarkt stems from the fact that the firewood and construction wood for handicrafts used to be stored here. Today it is named after the royal Bavarian Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria .

History and location

Weißenburg, first mentioned in a document in 867, was built around a Carolingian royal court and received the status of a free imperial city in the early 14th century , which it was able to maintain until 1802. In the heyday of the old town, the wooden market was laid out according to plan at a right angle to the market square across the early Bräugasse-Heigertgasse border. The street forms an elongated rectangle and is remarkable for its spaciousness, which is unusual for Franconian city ​​facilities. The extension of this rectangle leads to the former Obertor and the road to Eichstätt . Luitpoldstrasse is bordered to the east by the Old Town Hall , the front side of which faces the square; To the east of it, Rosenstrasse and Am Hof square begin . The nearby Andreasturm is oriented towards Luitpoldstrasse. The Carmelite Church was placed in the long side of the northern wall of the square . In 1903 the Kaiser-Ludwig-Brunnen was built on the southwest side of the square ; for this purpose, Holzmarktbrunnen was abandoned.

Buildings

Row of houses

the Kaiser-Ludwigs-Brunnen

Facade of house number 13

Town houses and half-timbered houses in Gothic and Baroque styles line the street. The listed buildings on the street include:

• Kaiser-Ludwig-Brunnen , 1903, Art Nouveau , by Emil Dittler
• Old Town Hall
• Luitpoldstrasse 1 , town house, 17th century, facade 1859
• Luitpoldstrasse 2, " Lebküchnerhaus ", town house, half-timbered, 1558
• Luitpoldstrasse 3 , “ Löwenbrauerei Goldener Löwe ”, 1778
• Luitpoldstrasse 4 , residential and commercial building, 16th century, facade 1845
• Luitpoldstrasse 5 , community center, in the core before 1550, remodeling around 1750
• Luitpoldstraße 7 , community center, around 1780, mainly before 1500
• Luitpoldstrasse 8 , town house, 17th century
• Luitpoldstrasse 9, church of the Carmelite monastery Weißenburg , hall church, after 1325, later changes
• Luitpoldstrasse 9 , east wing of the monastery, 14th century
• Luitpoldstrasse 10 , community center, 1819
• Luitpoldstraße 11 , community center, half-timbered, example of half-timbered in Franconia before 1600
• Luitpoldstraße 13 , former inn, 19th century, facade 1954; today's seat of the Raiffeisenbank Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen
• Luitpoldstrasse 14 , former inn, around 1782/85
• Luitpoldstraße 15 , Bürgerhaus, Kerin 15./16. century
• Luitpoldstraße 15, rear wing, 17th century, later redesigned in a classical style
• Luitpoldstrasse 16 , “Gasthaus Goldener Stern”, 1314/1315, later redesigned; oldest town house in Weißenburg
• Luitpoldstraße 17 , Brauereigasthof, 17./18. Century, changed around 1940
• Luitpoldstrasse 18 , former inn, 1784
• Luitpoldstrasse 19 , Bürgerhaus, 1515/1516
• Luitpoldstraße 20 , town house, late Gothic core, renovation in 1872
• Luitpoldstraße 21 , town house, 19th century
• Luitpoldstraße 22 , town house, 15th century
• Luitpoldstraße 22, annex building, 17/18. century
• Luitpoldstrasse 24 , community center, 1809
• Luitpoldstraße 26 , community center, around 1800
• Luitpoldstraße 28 , former inn, 18th century
• Luitpoldstrasse 28, outbuilding, half-timbered, 1613
• Luitpoldstraße 30 , town house, core around 1500, remodeling 18th century
• Luitpoldstraße 32 , community center, 1475, later reconstruction

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : Luitpoldstraße (Weißenburg in Bayern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Historical view of the wood market

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district. In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monuments in Bavaria. Independent cities and districts. Vol. V 70/1 , Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, p. 538
2. ^ Rainer Kammerl: Fountains, monuments and sculptures in Weissenburg. An inventory. In: villa nostra. Contributions to the history of Weißenburg. Weißenburg 2015 (No. I), p. 35
3. ↑ List of monuments in Weißenburg i.Bay. (PDF; 243 kB)
4. ↑ Konrad Bedal: half-timbering before 1600 in Franconia: an inventory of Imhof, 2006; P. 678