Munsterplatz (Mainz)

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The Münsterplatz in Mainz old town

The Cathedral Square is a building culture and urban planning important place in Mainz-Altstadt . It is considered the most important entrance to the old town of Mainz. Due to its social and urban history, the square is designated as a monument zone .

history

The square got its name because of the cathedral gate of the fortress Mainz and the Abbey of Altmünster that used to stand there . Although the Münstertor was demolished in 1877 as part of the city's expansion , the area kept its name. At this point in time, the Münsterplatz was the meeting point of the Große Bleiche and Schillerstraße traffic routes. In the following period, Binger Strasse and Mittlere Bleiche were extended and connected to Münsterplatz. With the rest of the traffic from the Bleichenviertel and the traffic from the west and south , the Münsterplatz became a traffic junction. Due to the enlargement of the square, some Altmünster houses had to be demolished. In addition, several plots of land that could be built over were not built on. In the next few years, further buildings were built in the area around Mainz Münsterplatz. In the 1920s , the Münsterplatz was enlarged again due to the space requirements.

In 1926 a competition was announced among architects in Hesse and Hesse-Nassau for the development of properties on which some Altmünster houses were previously. One condition for the development of the area was that the building line had enough space for a large traffic area and an appropriate width for Schillerstrasse. Another aim of this plot reduction was that the view and the architectural counterplay to the Erthaler Hof from the baroque era was possible. Finally, the two architects HFW Kramer and Gottlob Schaupp from Frankfurt am Main won the competition to reduce the size of Münsterplatz and to build the telegraph office and the tax office on Schillerstrasse. The construction of the telegraph office lasted from 1928 to 1930, and from 1929 the tax office was built. In 1931 the tax office was finally completed. During the Weimar Republic , the buildings were the most important modern buildings in Mainz.

The southern part of the renovated “Münsterplatz” stop with a new public lavatory . Mainzer Verkehrsgesellschaft trams and buses stop at the stop .

The Münsterplatz, which had not been modernized for a long time, looked in need of renovation by 2017 . Politicians in Mainz thought about renovating both the adjacent buildings and Münsterplatz. In 2015, a winning design for the redesign of Bahnhofstrasse and the north side of Münsterplatz was chosen. In the context of the renovation of the tram tracks, a more attractive design of the square should be achieved. In March 2017, the renovation work began on Münsterplatz and the adjacent Bahnhofstrasse, and on April 28, 2018, the newly designed square was inaugurated.

architecture

The monument zone includes the area of ​​the converging streets and the telegraph office as well as the tax office in Schillerstraße. The Münsterplatz is a central traffic junction in the old town of Mainz. The streets Große Bleiche, Schillerstraße, Bilhildisstraße , Binger Straße and Bahnhofstraße converge on it. The architect Gottlob Schaupp realized his ideas in the groupings of the building parts. It is noticeable that the width and height of the main building of the telegraph office towers over all the buildings on Münsterplatz. It is the most striking building on Münsterplatz. The telegraph office forms an architectural correspondence with the tax office in the monument zone: In terms of the assembly, symmetry, window arrangement and construction cubes , the buildings have similarities, but the telegraph office is slightly higher and wider. In addition, the offices form a contrast to the nearby Erthaler Hof, which is heavily decorated on the outside and has conspicuous groupings. For example, building projections planned by Kramer and the dividing facade lines planned by Schaupp were not implemented.

On the buildings and the square, the general validity of the building at the time and the type of construction can be read off without elaborate decorations. The buildings on Münsterplatz were erected as part of the new objectivity and with influences from purism . In the central gazette of the building administration , the new Münsterplatz is described as follows in June 1927:

“It was interesting to see that the works that were to be taken seriously artistically were almost always of a related spirit. Everywhere one saw the continuous horizontals, the simple building cubes without significantly protruding cornices or other structural elements, the partial or complete renunciation of the aesthetic contribution of the roof, the flat treatment of the facades in the Nordic-medieval sense. "

- unknown : Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 24, from June 15, 1927

See also

literature

  • Ewald Wegner (editor) with the participation of Hans Caspary, Paul-Georg Custodis, Ludwig Falck and Gerd Rupprecht: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.2: City of Mainz. Old town. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988: pp. 270-271. ISBN 3-491-31036-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Münsterplatz remains a sore spot  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Rhein-Zeitung by Dominic Schreiner and Armin Thomas on May 10, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mainzer-rhein-zeitung.de  
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Directory of cultural monuments District-Free City of Mainz (PDF; 1.6 MB) on denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ewald Wegner (editor) with the participation of Hans Caspary, Paul-Georg Custodis, Ludwig Falck and Gerd Rupprecht: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.2: City of Mainz. Old town. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988: pp. 270-271. ISBN 3-491-31036-9
  4. ↑ a b Hope for Münsterplatz . FAZ , January 28, 2007, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 .;
  5. ↑ Design concepts for Bahnhofstrasse, Münsterplatz, Große Langgasse from the Mainz City Planning Office on the Mainz City website (PDF file; 9.1 MB)
  6. ↑ Much speaks in favor of the new Münsterplatz on the website of the Rhein-Zeitung on May 3, 2012
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  8. ↑ Conversion work on Bahnhofstrasse in Mainz ended: New Münsterplatz officially opened. Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, April 28, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2018 .
  9. ^ Ewald Wegner (editor) with the assistance of Hans Caspary, Paul-Georg Custodis, Ludwig Falck and Gerd Rupprecht: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.2: City of Mainz. Old town. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988: p. 270. ISBN 3-491-31036-9

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 49.9 ″  E