Naschmarkt (Leipzig)
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| Basic data | |
| place | Leipzig |
| District | center |
| Created | 1556 |
| Buildings |
Old Town Hall , Old Trade Exchange |
| use | |
| User groups | pedestrian |
| Space design |
Goethe monument , lion fountain |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 1,800 m² |
The Naschmarkt is a small square in downtown Leipzig . It owes its name to a time when fruit was traded here, which at that time was also considered a sweet treat. Today it serves as an open-air restaurant in the warm season, while before Christmas it houses part of the Christmas market .
Location and shape
The Naschmarkt is located at the back of the Old Town Hall between Grimmaische Strasse and Salzgäßchen. It forms a narrow square 90 meters long and about 20 meters wide, opening slightly to the north.
At the north end is the baroque Old Stock Exchange and in front of it in a small green area the Goethe monument depicting the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). Then follows the usable area of the square before it ends on Grimmaische Strasse with the lion fountain . The east side of the square, opposite the old town hall, is bordered by the Handelshof , today the Steigenberger Grandhotel Leipzig with the ALEX restaurant in the castle cellar . One passage from the Naschmarkt through the old town hall leads to the market and another through the Handelshof into Reichsstraße .
history
The Naschmarkt was created in 1556 during the construction of the Old Town Hall, when large areas of old houses were demolished. It served the trade in food, but also for public performances such as the Neuberin theater troupe . Until 1679, the so-called herring stalls for the sale of salted fish stood here, which led to the name herring market.
Then the old trading exchange was built here, which was already used as an unfinished building in 1679 and was completed by 1687. The Hercules Fountain with the statue of Hercules was erected in front of her in 1688 . Around 1820 the fountain was moved to the southern edge of the square and redesigned as a lion fountain with bronze lions based on a design by Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764–1850). When the fountain was reconstructed to its current appearance in 1918 by Hugo Licht (1841–1923), the wooden parts were replaced with stone and the Schadow lions retained.
From 1703 the Naschmarkt was the central meeting point for litter carriers , 24 porters for 12 sedan chairs.
The Naschmarkt 1646
The Naschmarkt before 1800 with litter carriers
1800 - with debtor's tower and Hercules fountain
1904 - with a storey house and a police station
The Goethe Monument from 1903
The Wehrmann in Eisen 1915
The east side of the square had been built on the site of the former castle cellar since the second half of the 16th century with several municipal facilities: the cookshop (1565), the shoe and fur store (1572) and the bread and meat banks (1578). There was also a tower with a few holding cells . This and the northern part gave way at the beginning of the 19th century to the Stockhaus , an inner-city prison, and in 1830 the guardhouse of the Leipzig municipal guard moved into the neighboring house, next to the police and tax authorities. In 1903 the Goethe monument in front of the stock exchange, created by Carl Seffner (1861–1932), was built, reminding of Goethe's student days in Leipzig. In 1908/1909 the entire east side was replaced by the new Handelshof exhibition center.
In 1877 the end of the Naschmarkt seemed to have been decided when it was supposed to be included in a larger town hall building, which was not realized. In 1915 the Wehrmann in Eisen, created by Mathieu Molitor (1873–1929), was on the square to collect donations for the First World War . The Naschmarkt was hit in the bombing of December 4, 1943 , and the stock exchange burned down completely. The restoration work was completed in 1962. The building was extensively renovated between 1992 and 1995, with great emphasis on the coloring of the facade and the window glazing in the style of the 17th century.
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 425
- Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 154
Web links
- Naschmarkt. In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved May 25, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Old trading exchange. In: Website of the city of Leipzig. Retrieved May 30, 2015 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 25.4 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 32.6 ″ E