Paradeplatz (Zurich)
The parade ground is a place in the Bahnhofstrasse in the Quartier City in Zurich . It is located in one of the most expensive locations in the city and has been synonymous with banks and Swiss prosperity for years . The two major Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse are located directly on Paradeplatz . There are also a number of other banks in the vicinity.
history
Paradeplatz was known in the 17th century as a transshipment point for animals (including pigs) under the name "Säumärt" (pig market). In 1819 the name was changed to Neumarkt, presumably due to the ongoing economic upswing in the Zurich region . The name Neumarkt lasted about 50 years until the square was renamed Paradeplatz. This created a connection to the nearby armory and ammunition depot in the city.
Until the city walls were torn down, the later Paradeplatz was characterized on the one hand by the city walls with the Wollishofer Tor and the Katzenturm and on the other hand by the so-called Tiefenhof linden tree. Outside the walls of the old city moat, which was still open and went Fröschengraben was called. In 1838, the Austrian Johannes Baur opened the city's first and at the time most distinguished hotel for tourists at the eastern end of the square as the “Hôtel Baur en Ville ”.
At the same time, the cantonal Zurich post office opened next door, the “Zentralhof”, a large stagecoach center which, according to contemporaries, was unique in Europe. It was built according to plans by Hans Conrad Stadler . What was then Neumarkt became one of the busiest squares in Zurich.
The square was further enhanced by the construction of Bahnhofstrasse from 1864, as there was now a direct connection to Zurich main station and the Fröschengraben was filled in. This happened much to the delight of confectioner David Sprüngli , who in 1859 relocated his place of business from Marktgasse to Paradeplatz and to one of the recently built Tiefenhöfe office buildings under the false assumption that the new train station planned at the time (renovation in 1867) would be located directly on Paradeplatz be built. Nobody foresaw that Bahnhofstrasse would become Zurich's boulevard and shopping street. The Tiefenhöfe building complex, built in 1857 by Gustav Albert Wegmann (1812–1858), in which Confiserie Sprüngli has been based since then, was the first step towards today's trading and business center.
chronology
- until the 17th century "Säumärt" transshipment point (pig market)
- 1487: The armory is built in the immediate vicinity
- 1642: a new city fortification was built for Zurich. The square thus moved into the city.
- 1684: Garden of the "Neuenhof" on the west side
- 1686: Construction of the "Feldhof" on the north side (as a gun house and apartment of the witness)
- 1819: Renaming to "Neumarkt"
- 1838: The “Baur en Ville” hotel and the Posthof stagecoach center (now the Zentralhof) opened on the east side of the square
- 1857: Construction of the first modern Tiefenhöfe office building on the south side instead of the Tiefenhoflinde
- 1865: Renamed to Paradeplatz
- 1872: the square gets a fountain
- 1873: Branch of the credit agency on the north side (architect Jakob Friedrich Wanner (1830–1903))
- 1882: three Rösslitram lines run across Paradeplatz
- 1896: first electric tram lines
- 1897–1899: Construction of the first bank association building by Charles Mewes (1860–1916) on the west side
- 1900: total reconstruction of the square and conversion to electric trams
- 1907: Conversion of the hotel on the east side
- 1913: Construction of the Grieder building in the northeast of the Paradeplatz
- 1928: Construction of the first tram waiting room
- 1953–1960: New construction of the Bankverein building on the west side by Roland Rohn (1905–1971)
- 2000: Total renovation of the square
The newly built Hôtel Baur en ville during the Züriputsch of 1839
Paradeplatz 1840, view to the northeast
around 1850. View from today's Paradeplatz to the Posthof and the Fraumünster, on the right the Tiefenhoflinde
Trivia
In the Swiss version of the game Monopoly , Paradeplatz is the most expensive place.
literature
- Walter Baumann : Zurich – Bahnhofstrasse . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1972, DNB 740604937 .
- Hans Hoffmann , Paul Kläui (on the basis of the preparatory work by Konrad Escher ): The art monuments of the Canton of Zurich. Volume V: The City of Zurich, Part Two . (= The Art Monuments of Switzerland , Volume 22). Birkhäuser, Basel 1949, DNB 366497103 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 11 " N , 8 ° 32 ′ 20" E ; CH1903: 683 103 / 247125