Mendelssohn shore

Mendelssohn-Ufer (2016)

Mendelssohn bust by Walter Arnold (2010)

The Mendelssohn-Ufer is a green area in Leipzig's music district between Beethoven and Mozartstrasse on the Pleißemühlgraben, which was reopened from 2006 to 2007 .

In the place of the new clinker-clad building of the Humanities Center of the University of Leipzig , which was built from 1999 to 2002, was the New Concerthaus , also the second Leipzig Gewandhaus , until it was bombed in World War II . Before that, the Mendelssohn memorial had stood since 1892 , which was removed by the Nazi rulers in 1936 . Taking this into account and paying tribute to the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), who was important for Leipzig's musical life , the name was chosen.

Two things currently remind of Mendelssohn on the Mendelssohn-Ufer. The Mendelssohn bust by Walter Arnold (1909–1979), which stood in front of the ruins of the concert hall from 1947 to 1967, was erected on the southwest corner of the square . The north bank of the Pleißemühlgraben was designed in steps and equipped with wooden seating elements. If you look at the levels as staves , then the seemingly random arrangement of the wooden elements corresponds to the notes of the opening theme of the first movement from Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor .

The green area of ​​the square was created to complete the construction of a three-story underground car park below it. An outer wall of the underground car park also forms a bank wall for the Pleißemühlgraben. The triangular meadow area of ​​the square is lined with bush plantings along Beethovenstrasse and behind the garage entrance, the latter being arranged as irregularly high rectangular strips. A footpath forms the southern edge of the meadow.

Web links

Commons : Mendelssohn-Ufer  - Collection of images

• Heinz-Jürgen Böhme : MENDELSSOHNUFER - Proposal for naming a system in the center of the music district. In: NEW SHORES. Retrieved July 19, 2016 . 
• Mendelssohnufer between Beethovenstrasse and Mozartstrasse. In: NEW SHORES. Retrieved July 19, 2016 . 
• Mendelssohnufer. In: Landscape Architecture Today. Retrieved July 19, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 174 .
2. ^ Mendelssohn-Ufer Leipzig. In: RKW Architektur + Städtebau. Retrieved July 19, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 56 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 13 ″  E