Market (Senftenberg)
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 North side of the market, to the left of the church passage the oldest house on the market |
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| place | Senftenberg |
| Newly designed | 1999 |
| Hist. Names | Friendship Square |
| Confluent streets | Bahnhofstrasse, Kreuzstrasse, Schloßstrasse, Schmiedestrasse, Rathausstrasse, Kirchplatz |
| Buildings | Town hall, Adler pharmacy |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Space design | Saxon postal mileage column |
The listed market in Senftenberg is the largest square in the southern Brandenburg city.
history
When the city was founded in the 13th century, the trapezoidal market was marked northwest of the castle . Originally, five streets led to the market: Schlossstraße, Kreuzstraße, Rathausgasse, Schmiedegasse and Kirchgasse. The northern access to Bahnhofstrasse did not yet exist; it was only created when the city opened to the north in the 19th century. The city developed between the confluent streets. To the northeast of the market on the church square is the Peter and Paul Church , which towers over the buildings on the market. The meat banks were in the passage to the church.
In 1573, a market fountain was first mentioned as a tubular box . In 1681 it got a stone border. The water came from the Sojenza near Sauo via a wooden tube . The fountain was in front of the pharmacy on the east side of the market. Due to the mining activities, the water dried up in the middle of the 19th century and the well was abandoned.
A Saxon post mileage pillar was on the market from 1731 to 1847. It was dismantled under Prussian rule . The remains are in the district museum . In 2000 a copy of the post mileage column was erected.
In 1898 four gas candelabra were placed on the market. After the market was paved in 1932, the weekly markets took place on the Neumarkt to the south. At that time, a reinforced concrete mast was erected, which was called Langer Herrmann in allusion to the then mayor Herrmann Lindemann . During the GDR era, the market was known as the Friendship Square .
When the store was redesigned at the end of the 1990s, Lange Herrmann was removed. The south side of the market was closed by the new town hall building in 1998 and the new building for the Sparkasse Niederlausitz in 1999. The weekly markets have been held on the market again since 1999.
The new town hall, completed in 1998, received the Brandenburg State Architecture Prize in 1999. In the east, the building adjoins the town hall building from 1928/1929. This had the steepest roof in the GDR with a slope of 72.9 degrees. The original town hall was demolished in 1976 due to disrepair. The south side of the market remained undeveloped until the new building. The plastic Hidden Treasure by Volker Bartsch stands on the open space between the new town hall and the building of the Sparkasse Niederlausitz . One of the most striking buildings on the market is the Adler pharmacy, built in 1902 in the Wilhelmine era on the east side of the market. The five-story building breaks up the predominantly two-story development of the market. The facade is richly decorated, including snakes and skulls as well as two larger than life eagles, which give the pharmacy its name. The pharmacy's business premises are on the ground floor. From 1949 to 1951 the writer Erwin Strittmatter lived in the building, who worked as a newspaper editor in Senftenberg. The first pharmacy was mentioned in 1680, the first pharmacist was Christian Gottlieb Raack. An official physician was employed from 1754. The oldest houses in the market are on the north side. They have arched portals with coach stones. The oldest house is on the doorway to the church. It is a listed building. Above its portal is the year 1675 and Psalm 33, 32 "Your goodness, Lord, be upon us as we hope in you."
literature
- Isolde Rösler (arrangement): Alt-Senftenberg. A picture chronicle . Ed .: Senftenberg District Museum. 1st edition. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1992, ISBN 3-89264-731-3 (3rd edition. 2004).
- Werner Forkert : Historical Forays - Monuments of the City of Senftenberg . City of Senftenberg, DNB 971235066 .
- Werner Forkert: Senftenberg retrospectives Part II interesting facts from Senftenberg history . Bookstore "Glück Auf", Senftenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-944316-04-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Oberspreewald-Lausitz (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 14 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ E