Nikischplatz
| Nikischplatz | |
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 Nikischplatz to the northwest (2020) |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Leipzig |
| District | Center-west |
| Created | around 1900 |
| Newly designed | after 1990 |
| Confluent streets | Thomasiusstrasse, Bosestrasse |
| use | |
| User groups | Car traffic, cyclists, pedestrians |
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| Square area | approx. 0.2 ha |
The Nikischplatz is located in the interior Westvorstadt of Leipzig . It was named in 1922 after the conductor Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922), who lived from 1906 until his death at Thomasiusstraße 28, a corner house on the square, which was nicknamed the “ Märchenhaus ”. The square is a listed building .
description
Nikischplatz is an enclosed rectangle about 60 m long and 35 m wide at the corner of Bose and Thomasiusstraße, which both end here. The length of the square runs from northwest to southeast. A driveway with parking space leads around an elongated, rounded green area bordered with a low metal fence, at the ends of which two baroque fencing figures stand opposite each other. The square is also decorated with four ham lights .
Nikischplatz is surrounded in the south by three refurbished, listed buildings and in the north by prefabricated buildings from the 1980s. On the south corner, a gap of eight and a half meters remains between the old buildings, which is filled by a gate with three passages. It is the gate of the Künstlerhaus that used to stand here. A footpath leads through the gate to Zentralstrasse. A memorial stone for Arthur Nikisch has stood in front of the new building block on the north corner since 1997 .
history
Because of the swampy and flood-prone area on the Weißes Elster in the west of old Leipzig, the suburbs developed mainly to the east and south. Representative gardens were created in the west and north, including the Kleinbosische Garten of councilor Georg Bose (1650–1700) from 1692 . This remained in the family until around 1760.
After several changes of ownership and devastation due to the Battle of Nations , the garden came into the possession of the piano dealer Christian Friedrich Lehmann in 1829 and was now called Lehmanns Garten . In 1835 a four-story apartment building, the so-called Lange Haus, was built along the length of the garden and the area in front of it was divided into rental gardens.
In 1880, the Leipzig real estate company acquired a large part of Lehmanns Garten and began building on it, which also had to give way to the Long House. In the back part she created a decorative area on which two fencing figures from the Kleinbosischer Garten were set up and which was gradually built with high-quality tenement houses. The Leipziger Kunstverein bought a plot of land on the south corner that only had a front 8.5 m wide to the square and was therefore not suitable for a residential building. Here the association built its club house in pure Art Nouveau , the Künstlerhaus, in the years 1899/1900 . From then on, the square was also called the Platz am Künstlerhaus , while the houses on the square were officially counted as part of the adjacent streets and subsequently numbered. It was only when they were named Nikischplatz in 1922 that they were given numbers associated with the square.
The square found its structural completion in 1905/1906 with the construction of a house on the northwest corner (Thomasiusstraße 28) with numerous pictorial representations on ceramic plates, which was soon called the “fairy tale house”, although no fairy tales were depicted.
During the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , the Künstlerhaus, the Märchenhaus and the corner house on Thomasius- / Bosestrasse were destroyed. After the rubble had been removed, the land remained undeveloped until well into the mid-1980s. At the end of the 1980s, the gap was closed with prefabricated buildings from the WBS-70 series, which were somewhat adapted to the character of the surrounding old buildings by using pitched roofs. In 1992, the two fencing figures were replaced by copies by the Leipzig sculptor Markus Gläser (* 1960). The old buildings have now been extensively renovated. However, only the gate remained of the Künstlerhaus.
literature
- Ansgar Scholz, Annekatrin Merren: From Lustgarten to Hort of the Arts . In: Forgotten avant-garde. Künstlerhaus and Nikischplatz. ( Leipziger Blätter , special issue), Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-95415-055-7 , pp. 10–33
Web links
- Nikischplatz. In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- Nikischplatz. In: Bürgererverein Kolonnadenviertel. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments in Leipzig-Zentrum-West , ID number 09291501
- ↑ Markus Cottin, Gina Klank, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipzig monuments . Sax-Verlag Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , Volume 1 p. 53
- ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 157 .
- ^ Leipzig address books. In: Historic Address Books of Saxony. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
- ↑ The fairytale house . In: Ansgar Scholz, Annekatrin Merren: From Lustgarten to Hort der Künste , pp. 24–27
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '23.6 " N , 12 ° 22' 4.5" E