Mauricianum
The Mauricianum was a building belonging to the University of Leipzig on the south side of Grimmaische Strasse in the section between Universitätsstrasse and Augustusplatz . It was built in 1849 and bombed in 1943.
history
Until the beginning of the 19th century, the church yard of the university church , which from 1653 was partly a botanical garden , extended to Grimmaische Strasse. With the further development of the city, the university wanted to use the favorable location on Grimmaische Strasse economically. Therefore, in 1817, she erected a one-story building with a narrow portico in front of it , the Colonnaden , between the Princely House and the buildings at the Grimmaischer Tor , the individual units of which were rented to merchants and craftsmen.
Already 30 years later, the decision was made to replace the colonnade with a multi-storey house. Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868) designed a five-story building with a relatively simple facade facing Grimmaische Strasse. It was completed in 1849. It was named Mauricianum after the Latinized form of the name of Elector Moritz von Sachsen (1521–1553), who in 1544 had transferred the secularized Pauline monastery to the university.
The ground floor and mezzanine were each grouped into 13 arches, of which the two outer and the middle three were slightly presented. The three floors above had two windows above each of the arches.
The ground floor and mezzanine were rented to business people. Most of the remaining rooms were used by the university. According to an overview of the university's facilities from 1943, the Mauricianum housed the Theological Faculty with six seminars and the Philosophical Faculty with the Institute for Speech Studies and the Japanese Institute.
The Mauricianum was completely destroyed in the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . The Karl Marx University buildings with the university bookstore listed here in the 1970s had been withdrawn from the building line and green spaces and water features had been built in front of them. With the new university development, a residential and commercial building was built on the old building line in 2009, which, in addition to retail shops in the ground floor zone, houses the institute rooms of the university's business and economics faculty.
- The place of the Mauricianum for four centuries
17th century
entrance to the botanical garden
1817-1849
Colonnades
1849-1943
Mauricianum
1981
university bookstore
2013
Current development
literature
- The Maurcianum. In: Birgit Hartung: Albert Geutebrück. Builder of Classicism in Leipzig. Lehmstedt-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937146-05-9 , pp. 68-71
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 43.9 ″ E