New Market (Bremen)
| New market in Bremen | |
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 Place with horse fountain |
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| Basic data | |
| city | Bremen |
| district | Neustadt |
| Newly designed | 2003 |
| Confluent streets | Westerstr., Oster Str., Plünkenstr., Am Neuen Markt, Grosse Annenstrasse, Kleine Annenstrasse, Grosse Krankenstrasse, Grosse Johannisstrasse. |
| use | |
| User groups | Road traffic, pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic |
| Space design | 2003: quiet place under trees |
The new market is an elongated, historical square in the north direction in Bremen in the Neustadt district .
The streets on the square were u. a. named as Westerstraße and Osterstraße after the location of the streets, Am Neuen Markt , Plünkenstraße after Plünnen or Plunken (inferior clothes), as the second-hand dealers were based here, Große Annenstraße and Kleine Annenstraße after the first name Anne, Große Krankenstraße after a former hospital and Große Johannisstraße after the name Johann or after a Saint John
history
The Alte Neustadt was laid out as a planned expansion of the city in the 17th century on the left side of the Weser and surrounded with fortifications . A square-like street that led to the horse market was created as a continuation of the small bridal bridge over the Kleine Weser and the bridal road . Initially, this system had the old hallway name Am Weterkamp (Weizenkamp), and since 1689 then in front of the hospital . In 1785 it was named after the pig market that took place here . After that, the name Achter der Höfwache was customary after the main guard, which was located in the center of the north side of Westerstrasse and was broken off in 1817.
In 1821 the square was named Neuer Markt . In the 19th century, the weekly markets in the Neustadt took place here.
In 2003, when the square was redesigned according to plans by Stefan Grundner (Darmstadt), the street Am Neuen Markt was connected to the square zone by two granite steps. Several trees with large tree slices green the square with clinker paving and various benches.
Today (2017) the square is a very quiet zone, as many shops in the older Neustadt are now on western Langemarckstrasse , eastern Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse or northern Westerstrasse and Osterstrasse.
Buildings
- The new St. Pauli Church from 1967 stands to the south on Große Krankenstraße as the successor to the church building from 1682 on Osterstraße, which was destroyed in the war.
- Otherwise, there are three-story residential and commercial buildings (including a café, cooking studio) with pitched roofs and mostly with red stone facades around the square.
- Am Neuen Markt 8–14: Seat of the regional association of German housewives (DHB)
Art objects
- In front of the church stands the Little Roland as a counterpart to the Bremen Roland from 1404 as a symbol of civil rights and freedoms. The sandstone fountain column was created in 1737 based on a design by the sculptor Theophilus Wilhelm Frese . It is a symbol of the citizens' initiative for freedom and citizenship of the people of Neustadt, who only received a very limited citizenship in 1642 and the full citizenship of Bremen only in 1863 (!) Since 1899 the Roland fountain stood at the north end of the Neuer Markt and since 1965 at its south end.
- The horse fountain V , north of the square, is a small drinking fountain from 1978 based on a design by Gerhard Lange.
swell
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 21 ″ N , 8 ° 47 ′ 55 ″ E