Nordermarkt

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Nordermarkt
Nørretorv
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Place in Flensburg
Nordermarkt
The Nordermarkt in the morning
Basic data
place Flensburg
District Flensburg city center
Confluent streets Great Street  (Storegade) ,
Schiffbrückstrasse  (Skibbrogade) ,
Marienkirchhof  (Marie Kirkegård)
Buildings Schrangen
use
User groups Foot traffic : tourists and locals
Space design Neptune Fountain, outdoor catering in summer, Christmas market in winter

The Nordermarkt ( Danish : Nørretorv ) is one of the two main marketplaces in downtown Flensburg .

history

With the founding of the parish of St. Marien on the Flensburg Fjord , around 1170, it is one of the founding settlements of Flensburg, and probably the oldest market square in the city emerged soon after , which served primarily as a market place, but also where the penal system implemented his judgments. In 1595 the Schrangen was built, on the south side of which a chain was attached, which served as a pillory . Through the Schrangen, with its arcades , you get to the nearby Marienkirche , which with its church tower towers over the Nordermarkt. But even in the Middle Ages you could get to the church via the Große Straße above it and in the other direction to Thingplatz and from there over the Holm to Südermarkt , another market square in the city. Even at that time, the Schiffbrückplatz was located below the Nordermarkt (received the new official name Willy-Brandt-Platz in 1997), which was located directly at the harbor .

In addition to the Nordermarkt and the Südermarkt, other marketplaces have emerged in Flensburg over time, the Südermarkt, the Hafermarkt , the Ochsenmark and, more recently, the new Ochsenmarkt and the Twedter Plack , which is also used as a small marketplace today. In the 19th century, the Hotel Rasch was located at Nordermarkt , in which, for example, Hans Christian Andersen and Theodor Fontane stayed . During the founding period , new buildings were built in the east and west of the Nordermarkt. The brick merchant's house Hansen on the edge of the Nordermarkt, which illustrates the trend towards brick facades, was built in 1868/69. At the end of the Second World War , Flensburg was occupied by British units. Since May 13, 1945, the ordinances and laws issued by the British and American military authorities have been published on large boards on the Nordermarkt and Südermarkt. Meanwhile, the last imperial government was still in the suburb of Mürwik .

Since the 1980s, the Nordermarkt has primarily been used as an area for outdoor catering for the adjacent restaurants . In 1990 the Hansens Brewery was opened at the Nordermarkt. It stayed there until 2000, after which it changed its location and can now be found at the port not far from Nordermarkt. The old premises were taken over by Cafe Central .

Even today, the Nordermarkt is characterized by its historical buildings, so that it is one of the most important postcard motifs of the city. However, it has long since lost its marketplace function and has ceded it to the much larger Südermarkt .

Fountain of Neptune

The Neptune Fountain on the Nordermarkt in Flensburg at night (2015)

A first Nordermarkt fountain was apparently built in 1595 on the Südermarkt. This first fountain, which was built at the same time as the Schrangen, was provided with a column-supported roof. Today the Nordermarkt dominant Neptune Fountain ( Danish Neptunbrønden ) was established in 1758. Has created the Rococo Fountain L. Meymann. Since the 1980s, students of the Duborg-Skolen have undergone a “Neptune baptism” there after passing high school.

Since the 2000s, souvenir hunters have been stealing the gold-plated trident that King Neptune is holding in his hand. After the Neptune figure was sprayed with purple paint in the first decade after the turn of the century and its trident was broken off along with the hand, the figure remained in this state for years. In 2013, a report by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments found that the fountain was badly damaged due to natural wear and tear , vandalism and vibrations in the subsoil caused by delivery traffic for the shops. It was not until 2015 that the fountain and the figure were completely renovated. The newly inserted metal trident was stolen again shortly afterwards. Since then, the Flensburg Beautification Association has replaced the trident with a copy made of cast resin , which, however, has predetermined breaking points so that the vandalism does not lead to further damage to the limbs. In the past, the Flensburg Beautification Association demanded video surveillance as well as a wreath with sixty centimeter long steel spikes and a ban mile to permanently end the vandalism to protect the cultural monument .

Say of the growing stake

Legend content

An old legend reports that a young maid named Mette Osthave was once accused of theft by Mayor Peter Pomerering and sentenced to death by the council for his influence, although the offense was minor, if not total and was innocent. When the wrongly convicted girl was led to the Nordermarkt, which was to serve as the place of execution, she protested loudly that she was innocent and asked God to judge the unjust mayor. Then the ordeal began. She was buried alive under the gallows erected and alive impaled . The stake was driven right through her heart, and she was ultimately buried in the moat. The whole of Flensburg was terrified at this cruelty. But the stake on the Nordermarkt, with which the innocent girl was staked, could not be permanently removed because it kept growing out of the earth again and again. Nevertheless, the old legend says, the council has the stake sawed and knocked off every night, even if it keeps growing back. But after his death Peter Pomerering found no rest in the grave, he would run around in the city ​​moat as a ghost, in the shape of a big black poodle, because of his wrong deeds, and would look for the girl's grave.

Legend background

The mayor Peter Pomerering actually existed. The trial against Mette Osthave was also conducted. The case files have been preserved. In the Middle Ages, there is evidence that convicts were actually buried alive and then impaled. The stake through the heart was supposed to prevent those executed from returning as revenants , after-eaters or vampires . So far , however, archaeologists have not been able to find any remains of people at places of execution who were verifiably staked in Central Europe in the Middle Ages, which is why it is assumed that the skeletons were either already too badly decomposed, so that the staking was no longer detectable, or that their bones were elsewhere are to be searched for.

Web links

Commons : Nordermarkt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (Ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 20 .
  3. ↑ Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (Ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 17 .
  4. ↑ Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (Ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 18 .
  5. ^ Broder Schwensen : Flensburg - emerged from a few mud huts , in: Flensburger Tageblatt , February 13, 2009; Retrieved on: June 17, 2014
  6. ^ Marsch und Förde, Nordermarkt ; Retrieved on June 25, 2014
  7. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Willy-Brandt-Platz
  8. ↑ a b c d Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Article: Nordermarkt
  9. ↑ Broder Schwensen: “The city is where the wildest rumors go around. May 1945 in the mirror of the Flensburg city chronicle ” in: Lange Schatten. End of the Nazi dictatorship and the early post-war years in Flensburg . City archive Flensburg (2000), p. 23
  10. ↑ Flensborg Avis : Wunderquellen and Steinbrunnen, April 14, 1956
  11. ↑ a b c Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Article: Fountain of Neptune
  12. ↑ Neptune Fountain , accessed on: February 24, 2015
  13. ↑ In the Flexikon article: Neptune Fountain, the master builder Ludwig Neumann is named as the builder.
  14. ↑ Dietmar König: Duborg Skolen. In: Marsch & Förde. January 11, 2004, accessed June 28, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Gunnar Dommasch: Duborg School: Abi party without Neptune fountain. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . June 26, 2015, accessed June 27, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Guided walk: Flensburg - City of Fountains , from: August 4th 2010; Retrieved on: June 28, 2017
  17. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Nordermarkt: New shine for the Neptune fountain , from: August 20, 2015; Retrieved on: June 28, 2017
  18. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Nordermarkt in Flensburg: After theft: Neptune has a new trident , from: June 23, 2017; Retrieved on: June 28, 2017
  19. ↑ Tilla Rebsdorf: Kong Neptun er igen uden sin trefork. In: Flensborg Avis . June 27, 2017, accessed June 28, 2017 (Danish).
  20. ↑ Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 286
  21. ↑ Cf. Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Sagen und Märchen aus Flensburg , Husum 1992, pages 14 to 16
  22. ↑ His name is also spelled Peter Pommerening in recent publications. In the context of the old legend he is called Peter Pomerering.
  23. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 286
  24. ↑ Cf. Focus on impaling or stake through the chest: Horrible death penalty: Our ancestors judged so brutally , from: September 2nd, 2015; Retrieved on: October 24, 2015