Peter-Cornelius-Platz

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The Peter-Cornelius-Platz in Mainz-Neustadt

The Peter-Cornelius-Platz is a place and a street in Mainz-Neustadt that is important in terms of building culture and urban development . Both the square is a monument zone and the buildings that contain and adjoin it are designated as cultural monuments .

history

In the development of the area was under the Hohenzollern Hohenzollernplatz called. After the First World War , the square was named after the banker and politician Ludwig Bamberger during the Weimar Republic . After that, the square was renamed Peter-Cornelius-Platz after the composer and poet Peter Cornelius . In the past there were mostly shops and restaurants on the ground floor. During the Second World War , part of the apartments on Peter-Cornelius-Platz was destroyed. Nevertheless, the architectural and urban significance and the value of the zone have been preserved. As a result, most of the shops and restaurants on the ground floors were closed and they were converted into apartments. Today there is a green area and a playground on the square . There is heavy car traffic on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring and a stretch of the Mainz tram , and there is also heavy traffic on Goethestrasse. In the Nackstrasse, Uhlandstrasse, in the street Peter-Cornelius-Platz, in the Werderstrasse and in the Pankratiusstrasse there is more moderate life.

architecture

The Peter-Cornelius-Platz is designed in the shape of a triangle. The adjacent streets are Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring in the southwest, Uhlandstrasse in the southeast and Goethestrasse in the northwest. The street with the listed houses with the house numbers 2 to 12 is located northeast of Peter-Cornelius-Platz and connects Uhlandstraße with Goethestraße.

Most of the houses in this area were built when the Mainz Neustadt was built in this area. That was around 1905. The buildings, which were constructed both as residential and commercial buildings, have design features typical of the time, such as the facade . Similar houses can be found in Mainz on Albinistraße in Mainz's old town . In the past, these buildings were mostly combined with a shop or restaurant on the ground floor and a residential part of the owner and operator on the upper floors. Another thing the houses have in common is that usually five floors were built, with a sixth floor often being built later on. In addition, most of the houses around this square have the same floor heights and an eaves surrounding several houses . In addition, most houses have identical box-shaped bay windows on the building facade, which are spread over several floors. Other noticeable features are the red-yellow bricks and sandstones in all buildings at the time of construction , numerous polygonal oriels and the very narrow and therefore assembled windows. The gothic style decorated parapets and crowns also catch the eye .

The curbs and the paving of the mosaic wild pavement made of porphyry , basalt and greywacke are also architecturally significant . Furthermore, the extraordinary front gardens with the enclosures will become the monument zone at Peter-Cornelius-Platz . In addition, the avenues of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring, where the Mainz tram runs today, and the underpass under the Mainz main train station are worth mentioning as parts of the monument zone.

Significant structures

Facade of Peter-Cornelius-Platz 4

The most architecturally and historically significant buildings on this square are the houses in the northwest and west on Goethestrasse with house numbers 1 to 5, house Barbarossaring 1 and house no. 2 on Werderstrasse. They were built between 1902 and 1903 on behalf of the Mainz grocer Martin Ahles. In the south of the square are the important houses Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 69, 71, 81, 82 (the corner house to Uhlandstraße), 83 and 85, Pankratiusstraße 40, 42 and Uhlandstraße 10 from 1903. On the east side are the The most outstanding buildings are the houses at Peter-Cornelius-Platz 4, which was built in 1905 by the building contractor J. Schreyer, Nackstrasse 57, 59, Uhlandstrasse 1 to 3, in which the butcher's shop of master Karl Hanel was located. Other individual monuments in the region are the buildings Pankratiusstraße 30, the corner houses Uhlandstraße 2 and Pankratiusstraße 28, the block of houses Pankratiusstraße 24 from the 1920s, Colmarstraße 6, 9 and 11.

See also

literature

  • Angela Schumacher, Ewald Wegner (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.1: City of Mainz. City expansions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986: p. 102. ISBN 3-590-31032-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Angela Schumacher, Ewald Wegner (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.1: City of Mainz. City expansions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986: p. 102. ISBN 3-590-31032-4
  2. ↑ a b c d Ordinance on the protection of the monument zone "Peter-Cornelius-Platz" in Mainz according to § 8 i. V. m. § 4 and § 5 DSchPflG on the website of the city of Mainz (PDF file; 206 kB)

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 10.2 ″  E