Platia Eleftherias

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Platia Eleftherias at Christmas 2019 with a view of the former Italian house of the fascists
The Defterdar Mosque, the Muslim Fountain and the South West Bastion in 2019 (after the 2017 earthquake)
Market hall
Archaeological Museum

The Platia Eleftherias ( Greek Πλατεία Ελευθερίας Platía Eleftherías , German 'Freedom Square' ; Turkish Hürriyet Meydanı ) was built in 1935, after the great earthquake of 1933, which destroyed significant parts of the historic city of Kos on the Greek island of Kos .

location

The course is about 10 meters above sea level. In the west of the square is the former Italian house of the fascists ( Casa del Fascio ), in the north the Archaeological Museum of Kos , in the east the Defterdar mosque, which has been badly damaged since the earthquake in 2017, and the old south-west bastion, and in the south the largest in terms of area Building on the square, the market hall of Kos ( Italian Mercato delle Erbe , today: Dimotiki Agora).

The transverse market hall, built in 1934, separates the Platia Eleftherias from the Platia Agias Paraskevis . The Plateia Kazoyli is spatially behind the Archaeological Museum and the Defterdar Mosque .

House of the fascists

The house of the fascists ( Casa del Fascio in Italian ), located on Platia Eleftherias and dominating this square to this day, was built during the Italian occupation of the islands . The style is also found in the Archaeological Museum and a little less in the market hall at this place again, as with the community center at the Platia Agias Paraskevis . The same applies to the Linopoti Historical Administrative Center in Linopotis . The style of this town house is indicative of the architectural style of the period from 1923 to 1943 of the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese islands. The style of the architecture was adapted according to the ideas of the new rulers and cleaned of "oriental influences" and carried out based on the Roman Empire in connection with fascist "ideals".

literature

Web links

Commons : Eleftherias Platz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ΚΩΣ 1928. Η πλατεία Καζούλη πριν τον σεισμό , website: aegeanews.gr.
  2. ↑ ΚΩΣ 1928. Η πλατεία Καζούλη πριν τον σεισμό , website: kostoday.com.
  3. ^ Italian Architects and Scholars in the Levant. The case of Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands under the Italian Fascist Rule , p. 94.
  4. ↑ This is especially true after Cesare Maria De Vecchi replaced the previous governor Mario Lago of the Italian Aegean Islands ( Dodecanese ) in 1936 (see Marc Dubin: The Dodecanese and the East Aegean Islands, p. 436ff).

Coordinates: 36 ° 53 ′ 35 ″  N , 27 ° 17 ′ 19 ″  E