Neutorstrasse (Mainz)

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Neutorstrasse in Mainz's old town
Neutorstraße 1908: On the left the Neutor barracks, on the right the “Centrale Lokomotiv-Reparaturwerkstätte” of the Hessian Ludwigsbahn in Neutorstraße 2B. Today this building is home to the Museum of Ancient Shipping .

The Neutorstraße is a city road in Mainz-Altstadt . It was first mentioned in 1323 and is 520 meters long. Today the street is considered a monument zone .

history

Neutorstraße was first mentioned in 1323 as "Hundsgasse". This is due to the fact that the street ended at the Hundsturm until the bastions were built. Today the buildings Neutorstrasse 12 and Neutorstrasse 25 are located on this border. Until 1671, Hundsgasse was cordoned off by a board wall. So no exit from Mainz was possible via the alley. After the Mainz city wall and the Neutor had been completed, Neutorstraße could be extended to the intersection of Dagobertstraße in 1671 . It was now possible to exit and enter through the street. In 1699 the Neutor was moved a little. At the same time, numerous renovations began in the area. In the next time, many identical houses with features from the Baroque were built . Most of the structures had three windows when they were built. The first residents of the modernized Neutorstrasse were almost exclusively shipmen and craftsmen . A cul-de-sac was also built on the south-western side of the street between the current houses at Neutorstrasse 21 and Neutorstrasse 27. Today only the interrupted street numbers can be heard from her.

The facade of the building at Neutorstrasse 4

The north-eastern side of the street remained almost undeveloped until the 19th century. The reason was that the property belonged to the Capuchin monastery in Mainz . After Eustache de Saint-Far built the Josephinenhospital on this property in 1806 , the street was called "Josephinenstraße" for a short time. At the end of the 19th century the hospital was demolished again and new houses for the Mainz population were built in its place. The new buildings were mostly very lavishly and generously furnished. This represented a contrast to the mostly very narrow buildings from the Baroque era. With the new construction of these houses, the dominance of the Baroque was transformed into an interplay of diverse styles and art movements in this street. The high representativeness of the street that arose at this time was made clear by the above-average street width chosen during the construction process in the 19th century. In addition, it was in the Neutorstraße Neutor barracks and adjacent from 1926 Neutor school .

Neutorstrasse used to be in a trendy district . Today there are only a few shops left on the first floors of the street.

architecture

The house at Neutorstrasse 9

The architecturally most striking part of Neutorstrasse is in the south and in the middle of the street. The buildings Neutorstrasse 3 to 7, 9, 11 and 13 as well as Dagobertstrasse 1 to 7 are the most outstanding in terms of design and decoration. The change between different architectural styles and between different sized buildings is particularly striking. In this context, the house at Neutorstrasse 3, named “To the Three Moors”, is particularly striking. The building was built in 1710 and its structure corresponds to a noble palace , but was a bourgeois house. In its surroundings there are also numerous other town houses from the 18th century, which are particularly massive. From 1835 onwards, some buildings with styles from classicism were erected in Neutorstraße . Later houses were built with styles from the Wilhelminian era . In this context, the building at Neutorstrasse 11 is most striking. Three apartments were demolished for the building and the new Pfälzer Hof was built on the property in 1737. In 1870 the building was restored and renovated . In the course of this construction work, the building was also rebuilt and expanded.

Other architecturally specially designed buildings are located on the eastern side of the street, which was built from 1860 onwards. It forms a structural unit with Dagobertstrasse crossing to the south. This used to be the southern end of the old town of Mainz. The houses built at the end of the 19th century have a similar architectural style to the buildings in Neutorstrasse. The emergence and condition of the monument zone is an example of the growth and destruction of the Mainz city center. The Neutorstraße is connected to the city center of Mainz by the Augustinerstraße .

See also

literature

  • Karl Anton Schaab : History of the City of Mainz , Volume One, Mainz 1841, p. 391
  • Ewald Wegner (editor) with the participation of Hans Caspary, Paul-Georg Custodis, Ludwig Falck and Gerd Rupprecht: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.2: City of Mainz. Old town. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988: pp. 276-282. ISBN 3-491-31036-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Directory of cultural monuments District-Free City of Mainz (PDF; 1.6 MB) on denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ewald Wegner (editor) with the participation of Hans Caspary, Paul-Georg Custodis, Ludwig Falck and Gerd Rupprecht: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.2: City of Mainz. Old town. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988: pp. 276-282. ISBN 3-491-31036-9
  3. ↑ a b c d e Karl Anton Schaab : History of the City of Mainz , First Volume, Mainz 1841, p. 391 ( digital at Google Books )
  4. ↑ "Vue de l'Hospice géométrale Josephine élève à Mayence en l'de In 1806, par Ordre Mr. Jean-Bon St. André, Préfet du Mont-Tonnerre; D'après les Dessins et sous la Direction du Sr. St.-Far, Ingénieur en Chef du même Département. " in: Mainz City Archives, signature: BPSP / 1398 C

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 39.8 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 43.7 ″  E