Neustraße (Trier)

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Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 4.7 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 15.6"  E

Neustraße
coat of arms
Street in Trier
Neustraße
Southern end of Neustraße, confluence with Kaiserstraße
Basic data
place trier
District center
Connecting roads Saarstrasse , bread route
Cross streets Kaiserstrasse , Germanstrasse, Viehmarktstrasse, Kapuzinergasse / Pfützenstrasse, Fahrstrasse

The new road is a shopping street in Trier's historic center in the district of Mitte / Gartenfeld .

course

Neustraße is about 400 meters long and runs in a north-south direction. In the south it meets Kaiserstraße and turns into Saarstraße . In the north it connects to the Brotstrasse, which leads to the main market .

Germanstrasse and Pfützenstrasse converge from the east, and Viehmarktstrasse and Kapuzinergasse from the west (from south to north).

From the south end to the confluence of Pfützenstraße and Kapuzinergasse, Neustraße is a traffic-calmed area and from then on to the north end as a pedestrian zone .

history

In Roman times , the forum was located in this area , a large enclosed space that was divided in the middle by a hall, the so-called market basilica . This was built in the 1st century AD and enlarged under the reign of Emperor Constantine to a hall building 100 meters long and 21 meters wide. Its location corresponds to the distance from today's southern end of Neustraße to the confluence of Germanstraße.

Towards the end of Roman times, the hall fell into disrepair, and a street called Nova Platea ( Latin for "new street") ran alongside the ruins . The longitudinal walls were integrated into new buildings; Remnants of it can still be seen in some of the cellars of today's houses on Neustraße.

The construction of residential towers began with the construction of the medieval city ​​wall . A city gate, the so-called Neutor , stood at the southern end of the street until 1877.

During the Second World War , many houses on Neustraße were destroyed during the bombing in December 1944. Therefore, post-war buildings stand between some preserved houses from different eras. At the corner of Neustraße and Germanstraße stood the parish church of St. German and adjoining it the St. Gervasius monastery. Both were almost completely destroyed, parts of the church facade were integrated into the newly built Angela Merici Grammar School, a Catholic girls' grammar school.

Surname

The name has been documented as nova platea since 1150 . In 1363/64 it was named in Nuvergassen . Presumably, both names indicate that the road was rebuilt.

shops

There is a particularly high proportion of owner-operated businesses. In 2001, 24 shops joined the community of interests Neustraße e. V. together to improve the attractiveness of the street, e.g. B. by greening, common Christmas decorations or the organization of street parties. IG Neustraße is also campaigning for a complete designation as a pedestrian zone.

Cultural monuments

There are a total of 22 cultural monuments in the street , including the “smallest” house in Trier. Part of the street is a monument zone.

  • Neustraße 23, three-storey residential and commercial building, Renaissance building in the late Gothic tradition, 1595, facade reformed in 1912

  • Trier, Neustraße 35, former Franciscan Minorite Monastery of St. German, today Angela-Merici-Gymnasium

  • Neustraße 42, three-storey residential and commercial building, renaissance building in the late Gothic tradition, marked 1596, ground floor in the 19th century and changed around 1903; Cellar from the construction period using Roman materials

  • Neustraße 56, three-storey late-historical residential and commercial building with a plastered façade made of sandstone and iron, in the junction with a Kiel arch niche with sculpture, 1904, architect Carl Dalmar;

  • Neutor, canceled in 1877

literature

  • IG Neustraße e. V. (Ed.): Of course Neustraße . Brochure, 2008.
  • Emil Zenz: Trier in smoke and ruins. The war in the city, in Ehrang, Pfalzel, Konz in the years 1943–1945. 2nd updated edition. Verlag Michael Weyand, Trier 2008, ISBN 978-3-935281-60-7 .
  • Patrick Ostermann (arrangement): City of Trier. Old town (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 17.1.) Werner, Worms 2001.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kulturbüro der Stadt Trier (ed.), Emil Zenz: Street names of the city of Trier. Their meaning and importance. Trier 2003.
  2. ↑ Patrick Ostermann (arrangement): City of Trier. Old town (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 17.1.) Werner, Worms 2001.