Philipp-Mees-Platz

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Philipp-Mees-Platz with plane tree (right) and police headquarters
"Betzebud"

The Philipp-Mees-Platz is a square in Kaiserslautern near the Kaiserslautern Central Station in the city center of Kaiserslautern.

It is named after the resistance fighter Philipp Mees .

The listed Police Headquarters West Palatinate is located on the square . Logenstrasse runs north of the square and Bahnhofstrasse to the south . At the northern end of the square there is a listed plane tree. To the east, Eisenbahnstrasse , one of the main shopping streets in Kaiserslautern, runs past the square. Opposite the square on Bahnhofstrasse is the kiosk called “Betzebud”, which is open especially during matches of 1. FC Kaiserslautern and was still called “Buzz stop” until a change of ownership in 2018.

For the 2006 FIFA World Cup that were in the square of art "Football without Borders" by Christel Lechner built. There are sculptures of football players , each wearing jerseys from different participating countries, who played against each other during the World Cup in the Fritz Walter Stadium . The square keeps making headlines, as these figures are often victims of vandalism and then have to be painstakingly restored.

From the late 19th century, a Bismarck monument stood on the square. The figure and lion of the monument were melted down in 1917 during the First World War . The base stood until 1935.

There are stumbling blocks for Philipp Mees, Oskar Brill and Adolf Höhn , all of whom were persecuted for political reasons in the Third Reich . Due to its connection to the Nazi era, the square is often used for rallies or as a meeting point for demonstrations against right-wing extremism .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Mees. In: vvn-bda-kl.de. April 5, 1901, Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Monument optography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 14: City of Kaiserslautern; Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Family and Women, edited by Mara Oexner. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1996, ISBN 3-88462-131-9
  3. ↑ The landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration records 127 natural monuments for the urban area of ​​Kaiserslautern, while the website of the Kaiserslautern municipal administration determines a stock of 137 natural monuments without further information.
  4. ↑ New tenants in the "Betzebud". In: rheinpfalz.de. January 25, 2019, accessed February 4, 2019 .
  5. ^ The Sporting Statues Project: Football Without Borders: Philipp-Mees-Platz, Bahnhofstrasse, Kaiserslautern. In: offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk. June 12, 2006, accessed March 7, 2018 .
  6. ^ City administration Kaiserslautern: Philipp-Mees-Platz: three footballers temporarily dismantled. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  7. ^ City administration of Kaiserslautern: Footballer figure overturned. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ kaiserslautern: And again vandals destroy a concrete player. In: rheinpfalz.de. March 6, 2018, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Postcards from Kaiserslautern 01. In: lautringer.de. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Postcards from Kaiserslautern 05. In: lautringer.de. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Stumbling blocks in KL. In: stolpersteine-kl.de. November 9, 2017, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Stolperstein sponsorship for Philipp Mees. In: spd-fraktion-kl.de. November 16, 2017, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  13. ↑ LOUD BLOCKED. In: lauternblockiert.blogsport.de. November 28, 2015, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Markus: Easter March Kaiserslautern / Ramstein 'Against Hate' - War begins here. In: krieg-beginnt-hier.de. April 15, 2017, accessed March 6, 2018 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 14.8 "  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 18.7"  E