Lutherplatz (Görlitz)
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 View over Lutherplatz towards the east |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Goerlitz |
| District | Downtown |
| Created | 1889 |
| Newly designed | 2008 |
| Confluent streets | Dresdener Strasse, Krölstrasse, Landeskronstrasse |
| Buildings | Luther Church |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Space design | Luther monument, monument to the concert hall in Leipziger Strasse, playground |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | approx. 12,000 m² |
The Lutherplatz is an elongated square in Görlitz city center . In the address books up to 1886 the place is not mentioned. Only in the address book from 1889 is the name Dresdener Platz , as the square was called back then. The square was then also mapped on a city map from 1891.
In 1885 the trade and industrial exhibition took place on the area of what will later be the square. It also spurred house building in the neighborhood.
location
The square is limited to the east by Krölstrasse and to the west by Landeskronstrasse. The square stretches like a narrow band between these two streets. In the north is the Drachenfels , on which the Luther Church with the Luther monument stands. To the east of the church are the buildings of the former central hospital, which are now used as a kindergarten or old people's home. Only on the south side of the square is there a continuous residential area.
history
As early as 1883, the municipal trade association suggested such an exhibition and formed a ten-person committee to prepare it. The then Lord Mayor Clemens Reichert , Chamberlain Laurisch and the engineer Richard Lüders chaired the committee. The Berlin architects Wilhelm Cremer and Richard Wolffenstein as well as the Leipziger Härtel designed the halls and pavilions for the exhibition on what will later be Dresdener Platz . In the spring of 1885 the site was largely completed. In addition to the exhibition space, gardens, ponds, fountains and a waterfall were built. The Drachenfels, on which the Luther Church was built a few decades later, was also included in the exhibition grounds.
The exhibition was officially opened on May 14th of the same year. 1424 exhibitors presented their goods at the fair. Among them were Austrians, Swiss and even Americans. Over a million visitors came in the 136 days of the exhibition up to the end of September 27, 1885. After the end of the exhibition, all but one of the buildings were demolished. The observation tower was erected on the vineyard at the request of the Giant Mountains Association . After the demolition of the exhibition building, brisk construction activity developed on the surrounding streets and squares around the former exhibition grounds.
In 1975/1976, the Lutherplatz / Leipziger Strasse district was one of the few Wilhelminian-style districts to be renovated during the GDR era. In the subsequent cost-benefit analysis, it was found that the costs per apartment for the renovation of old buildings were not satisfactory and could not compete with modern assembly methods used in GDR housing. In the period that followed, the new construction activity far outstripped the renovation of old buildings. The course was last renovated in 2007 and 2008. It was planted with new trees and a modern play area on the west side of the course.
Luther church and monument
The Luther Church was built between 1898 and 1901 by the architects Arno Eugen Fritsche and Adolf Cornehls in the neo-Romanesque style on the Drachenfels for the Protestant community. The central building with a cross-shaped floor plan has a tower height of 58 meters.
The Luther monument is located at the entrance to the church from Lutherplatz. It was unveiled on June 21, 1904 as the first Silesian Luther memorial. The bronze monument is a replica of the Luther monument in Worms by Ernst Rietschel . The statue was dismantled and melted down in 1942 for armament purposes. In 1981 a support association was founded in Aumühle near Hamburg to restore the Luther memorial. A short time later, the mold of the monument was found in the foundry in Lauchhammer. The association collected 70,000 marks and had the mold restored and then campaigned for the memorial to be re-cast. For the 500th birthday of Martin Luther on October 30, 1983, the new monument was ceremonially unveiled at its old location in front of the Luther Church.
Memorial for the concert hall on Leipziger Strasse
The memorial commemorates the former concert hall on Leipziger Strasse and the redevelopment of the area between Lutherplatz and Leipziger Strasse in GDR times. It is located in a vacant lot on the south side of the square in the direction of Krölstrasse. The inscription on the monument reads as follows:
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Web links
- Lutherplatz playground. In: spielplatztreff.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richard Jecht : History of the City of Görlitz . Volume 1, half volume 2. 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 711 .
- ↑ Magistrate zu Görlitz (ed.): Plan of the city u. of the urban district of Görlitz . CA Starke, Görlitz 1891 ( online ).
- ↑ a b Andreas Bednarek: Görlitz - as it was . Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7700-1007-8 , p. 84 .
- ^ Ernst-Heinz Lemper : Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 3-932693-63-9 .
- ↑ Lutherplatz playground. ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: City of Görlitz .
- ↑ Playgrounds → Lutherplatz. In: goerlitz.de. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
- ^ Ernst Heinz Lemper: Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 3-932693-63-9 , p. 194 .
- ↑ Luther Church. The Luther monument. In: Evangelical in the Silesian Upper Lusatia. Evangelical Church District Association Lausitz, Ecclesiastical Administration Office Lausitz, accessed on October 13, 2016 .
- ^ EEC: Find: The church on the "Drachenfels". The Görlitz Luther Church celebrated its 60th [ sic! ] Birthday . In: The Church . January 17, 1960, p. 2 ( PDF, 2 pp., 12 kB [accessed on August 20, 2017]).
- ^ Luther Church - The Luther Monument. ( Memento of November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: sonnenorgel.de .
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 7.1 ″ N , 14 ° 58 ′ 40.2 ″ E