Großneumarkt
The Großneumarkt is a central square in Hamburg's Neustadt district . The streets Alter Steinweg , Neuer Steinweg , Thielbek , Wexstraße , Markusstraße and Erste Brunnenstraße all flow here . The Schlachterstrasse that led to the Michel has disappeared.
The size of the square with its piazza-like ambience led to the saying “you sit better here than on the Großneumarkt” when you feel particularly comfortable somewhere.
Quarter
The square gave the surrounding quarter its name. The square is the center of the new town that was built in the 17th century. All the streets that led into the new town ended here. It is bordered in the south by Ludwig-Erhard-Strasse (formerly Ost-West-Strasse ), in the west by Holstenwall and in the east by Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse .
The residents like to refer to it as the “village at the feet of Michel”.
The quarter was largely spared from the renovations of the 1920s and the bombs of the Second World War . However, the upper floors of the listed "Pelikan" pharmacy as well as the adjacent area around the former Schlachterstrasse were destroyed. The big " Hamburg Fire " hadn't ravaged Neustadt either. There were still numerous half-timbered houses here, including the oldest mud house in the city, although some of the facades were plastered.
However, since it was uneconomical to keep it, the houses on Peterstrasse were rebuilt in the old style. The later high buildings of the Hamburger Sparkasse as well as the buildings of the insurance company Deutscher Ring do not fit into the historical flair.
With the construction of new apartment blocks by the SAGA housing association in the 1980s, the typical narrow streets, often called "gangways" in Hamburg because of their narrowness, have disappeared.
history
Originally the Großneumarkt was the central market square in the district, called "Großer Neumarkt" because of its size; the square has had its current name since 1899. A weekly market takes place here regularly two days a week. Some classicist buildings on the northern and eastern edges of the original peripheral buildings have been preserved.
The surrounding quarter had a polyglot society with a large Jewish population until the Second World War. The synagogue was in the Kohlhöfen . Churches of other religious communities were in the immediate vicinity.
Hamburg's first public lending library also opened in the Kohlhöfen .
On the southern edge was Schlachterstrasse with two Jewish residential pens, the Marcus-Nordheim-Stift and the Lazarus-Gumpel-Stift . 169 Jews were deported from these houses alone. Starting from Police Station 14 and five other guards, 551 Roma and Sinti were deported to Poland in 1940 as part of the so-called " Gypsy Action " .
At the beginning of the 1950s, a lane was cut for the important main traffic artery, the East-West Road, through the area south of the Großneumarkt, which was marked by the bombing war. This has since separated the northern from the southern area of the quarter. Today this part of the street is called Ludwig-Erhard-Straße .
Since 2003 a memorial plaque has been commemorating the invention of the currywurst , which is described in the novella by Uwe Timm and was first offered here in 1947 according to tradition.
Huts
The street name Hütten was derived from the name “At the Huts”. Small, free-standing houses were called “huts”. These were made available to the enlisted soldiers after the ramparts were built at the beginning of the Thirty Years War. The huts were right on the ramparts. Because of the mills on the ramparts, tall houses were not allowed to be built here. As a replacement for the guard at Großneumarkt, the “Hüttenwache” was built here in 1858, a police control center with a detention center for minor offenders. In 1915 the building was expanded. The prison, which was described as a “bad hole” in citizenship debates in the 1920s, was used to imprison political opponents under the rule of the National Socialists . The resistance fighter Helmuth Hübener was imprisoned here for several months in 1942 before he was executed in Berlin-Plötzensee at the age of 17 . After the November pogroms of 1938 and from 1941 onwards, huts were also used to hold Jews prisoner before they were deported . A memorial plaque on the building has been reminding of these processes since 1985 .
scene
There has been a lively pub and club scene on Großneumarkt since the 1950s . Homosexuals also frequented the area, as the district was an "insider tip" until the reform of Paragraph 175 in 1969.
The Star Club moved here after it had to close in the Große Freiheit and lasted until the early 1980s. One of Hamburg's most famous jazz cellars , the Cotton Club , is only five steps away. In Schwenders on the corner of Alten Steinweg, classical music was played for thirty years until it was closed in 2007, and at Goldi's you met the strangest guys in town.
In addition to the so-called "Eppendorfer Scene", the Großneumarkt was one of the meeting places for both a morning pint and a night stroll in Hamburg.
Attractions
- The fountain on the square by Doris Waschk-Balz , donated in 1976 by the Hamburger Feuerkasse .
- Großneumarkt 37, building as well as the historical equipment of the Pelikan pharmacy located therein
- Großneumarkt 54, Hertz-Joseph-Levy-Stift
- The former police station 14 established in 1893 (today a new station is set up at the Caffamacherreihe ) is known from the TV series Großstadtrevier .
Peterstrasse
Alfred Carl Toepfer had the residential complex on Peterstraße built, who, at the request of the then First Mayor Herbert Weichmann, also took over the Beyling-Stift (Peterstraße No. 39) in 1965. This was built in 1751 by Wilhelm Gottfried Oelckers as a residential building, acquired by Johann Beyling in 1824 and donated in 1899 for apartments for the elderly. Alfred Töpfer had it restored to its historical form. At the end of the 1960s, Alfred Töpfer had town houses and merchants' houses built according to old plans. The historic Neustadt, whose development was characterized by half-timbered houses and narrow streets , has never looked like this. The name Peterstraße can be traced back to the Petrikirche . In Sprengel Michaelis in the 17th century, the streets were named after the saint of the main churches of the old town.
Today the Johannes Brahms Museum is located at No. 39 Peterstraße . Among other things, all of Brahms' works can be found here on CD and a reference library of 300 volumes. The Telemann Museum , which opened in 2011, has been located in a neighboring building since 2015, together with the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Museum and the Johann Adolf Hasse Museum.
Picture gallery
Huts 1890
Pelikan pharmacy
Peterstrasse
Web links
- grossneumarkt-fleetinsel.de - Website of the district management Neustadt with a virtual tour of the Großneumarkt
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 1 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 48 ″ E