Marktstrasse (Wernigerode)

View into Marktstrasse from Teichdamm behind the town hall

View of Marktstrasse (left) in the 19th century

The market street is one of the main shopping streets in the city of Wernigerode in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It runs in a south-north direction from Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Straße, the location of the Dullenturm, which was removed from the city wall in the 1960s, to the town's market square.

history

The name Marktstraße comes from the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia at the beginning of the 19th century. The street led from the market square past several knight's courts to the city wall and was therefore initially called Ritterstrasse. In contrast to Western and Breite StrasseOriginally, Marktstrasse was not a thoroughfare, but a dead end street, the course of which ended at the Dullenturm at the city wall, where at the same time Kochstrasse also joined the town's smallest house. It was only after the city wall in the area of ​​the Dullenturm was torn down in the 19th century that Marktstrasse could be used continuously. The southwest section of Marktstrasse, south of the later demolished Zeisberg house, was not built on until the beginning of the 20th century.

The houses Marktstrasse 1 to Marktstrasse 51 used to have different three-digit place list numbers between 600 and 700.

The northern end of Marktstrasse is designated as a pedestrian zone and closed to public traffic during the day. The southern part of Marktstrasse is open to motor vehicle traffic as a one-way street.

There are several listed buildings on the west and east sides of Marktstrasse. According to the list of cultural monuments in Wernigerode, these include :

location	designation	description	Registration number	Identification type	image
Marktstrasse 1 (map)	Residential and commercial building Marktstrasse 1	Residential and commercial building	094 02499	monument	More pictures
Marktstrasse 5 (map)	Residential and commercial building		094 02498	monument	More pictures
Marktstrasse 10 (map)	Commercial building		094 25168	monument	More pictures
Marktstrasse 14 (map)	Marktstrasse 14 (former post office)	Former post office	094 02497	monument	More pictures
Marktstrasse 27 (map)	Residential building		094 02496	monument	More pictures
Marktstrasse 28 (map)	Residential and commercial building		094 25169	monument
Marktstrasse 29 (map)	Residential building		094 25175	monument
Marktstrasse 30 (map)	Residential and commercial building Marktstrasse 30	Residential and commercial building from the period between 1904 and 1911, partly in half-timbered construction	107 40143	monument	More pictures

literature

• Walther Grosse : History of the city and county of Wernigerode in their forest, field and street names, Wernigerode 1929
• Walther Grosse: What the Wernigerode street names tell, Wernigerode [around 1935]
• Hermann D. Oemler : Time leaps: Wernigerode , 2011.

Web links

Commons : Marktstraße (Wernigerode)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Historical views of Westernstrasse at www.hausgeschichte-wernigerode.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann D. Oemler: Time leaps. Wernigerode , 2011, p. 84
2. ^ Johann Friedrich Heintzmann: City map of Wernigerode , 1751