Nikolaus-Koch-Platz

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Nikolaus-Koch-Platz Trier

The Nikolaus Koch Platz is one of the central squares in the Trier city center .

location

The square is centrally located on the southern edge of Trier city center and is affected by three streets: Dietrichstrasse in the north, Justizstrasse in the west and Böhmerstrasse in the south. Furthermore, Metzelstrasse begins at the square. There are some historic house facades on the square, as well as the district court and the west facade of the Galeria Kaufhof branch in Fleischstrasse .

history

The square is named after the Trier publisher Nikolaus Koch (1847–1918), the founder of the Trierischer Volksfreund . Until 1973 the square was named Justizplatz after the Trier district court located here. Until the end of the 18th century, the square was the garden of the Lambertine seminary , where young nobles were prepared for the priesthood.

shops

District court, six reliefs by the Trier sculptor Michael Trierweiler above the portal.

There are various shops in the adjacent streets; the main business area of ​​the city center is only a few meters away. The Park Plaza Hotel is also located here.

The Citizen Service Center of the Trierischer Volksfreund is also on the square. Until 2004, the entire Volksfreundverlag was in the same building. In the northwest, Nikolaus-Koch-Platz is bordered by Justizstrasse with the regional and district court.

Nikolaus-Koch-Platz is connected to the Trier bus network via its own bus routes .

Trebeta fountain

Trebeta fountain

The Trebeta fountain is located on Nikolaus-Koch-Platz . It was built in the middle of the 17th century and changed location several times over the centuries until it was built into a wall niche on the square in 1967. The wall niche fountain is built in the Renaissance style. Today it is located in the rear wall surrounding the public prosecutor's office on the north side of the square. The current color version dates from 1982. The frame architecture is designed in the form of a Renaissance tabernacle with pilasters on the side, entablature and triangular gables and bears the inscription: ANTIQVI TREVIRI ROMANORVM SOCII . On the side above the gable are the sandstone figures of Romulus and Trebeta, the legendary founders of Rome and Trier (copies from 1979, the originals in the stairwell of the public prosecutor's office, Dietrichstrasse 13). The arched fountain niche shows splendid shell work in the dome.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Zenz: Street names of the city of Trier: their sense and their meaning . Ed .: Culture Office of the City of Trier. 5th edition. Trier 2006, DNB  455807825 (1st edition 1961).
  2. ↑ Nikolaus-Koch-Platz. (No longer available online.) Click around GmbH, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved September 9, 2015 (commercial website). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.einkaufserlebnis-trier.de
  3. ↑ Shopping. Trier Tourismus und Marketing GmbH, accessed on September 9, 2015 (commercial website).
  4. ↑ Böhmerstrasse. (No longer available online.) Click around GmbH, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved September 9, 2015 (commercial website). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.einkaufserlebnis-trier.de
  5. ↑ Trier TV Service Center. Trierischer Volksfreund, accessed on September 9, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Timetable for Nikolaus-Koch-Platz, Trier. VerkehrVergleich.de GmbH, accessed on September 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Nikolaus-Koch-Platz again bus route. ( Memento from April 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Trierischer Volksfreund , September 9, 2009.
  8. ↑ a b Julia Frey: Aquae Treverenses = fountain in Trier . Verlag der Akademischen Buchhandlung Interbook, Trier 1988, ISBN 3-88915-032-2 .
  9. ↑ Patrick Ostermann (arrangement): City of Trier. Old town. (=  Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 17.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-171-8 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 26 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 17"  E