Place of partnership
The Place of Partnership is a place on the west side of the Worms Cathedral in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Worms . It was laid out in 1935 as the Nation's Square for parades by the NSDAP and the Wehrmacht .
location
The place of the partnership is immediately west of the cathedral. To the northeast is the garden of the Heylshof art house , to the northwest it is bounded by remains of the medieval city fortifications . In the north corner of the square there is a neo-Romanesque tower built around 1875 near the Heyl's garden.
history
Originally the remise and stables of the Heylshof were located on the site . They were demolished in 1935 when the "Platz der Nation" was built, which served as a parade ground for the Worms NSDAP and the Wehrmacht units stationed in Worms. In 1937 the Wehrmacht recruits were sworn in there.
After the Second World War , the square was given the current name “Platz der Partnerschaft”. The square has not fundamentally changed its appearance since it was first built in 1935. However, in the 1970s or early 1980s, the "sandstone eagle mounted above the cathedral gate [...] - after careful consideration of its whereabouts or non-whereabouts - migrated to the museum courtyard as a monument to its time of origin". The square is now used as a venue for the Jazz 'n Joy jazz festival, for example . The lighting of the square was modernized in 2014 for 66,000 euros.
description
The square consists of two parts: the long rectangular, roughly facing the west choir of the cathedral, the actual partnership space, and an approximately square area directly on the cathedral, which is about 1 m lower.
The upper part of the square is closed on the northwest side by the city wall, through which a round-arched double portal was broken in 1935, above which a stone relief of the imperial eagle was attached, which was removed after 1945. Today is the side of the portal, a metal relief with the coat of arms of Worms and the partner cities . The north and south-east walls of the square are formed by red sandstone walls into which five reliefs on the city's history are embedded. Originally, torch holders and bronze reliefs with sayings were also mounted on the side walls. The floor of the square, which is also covered with red sandstone slabs, is raised by two steps in front of the side walls, so that the impression of a three-part square is created. The side wings close upwards to the lower part of the square with walls, while the middle part connects it via an outside staircase, which is now supplemented by a ramp.
The five sandstone reliefs by the artist Albrecht Glenz show various moments in Worms city history:
- "Kriemhild - Siegfried - Giselher" refer to the Nibelungenlied .
- " Kasp. Sturm - Luther - Ulrich v. Hutten ”are reminiscent of the Diet in Worms of 1521.
- "Reconstruction" - behind the half-relief of a family, the silhouette of the Holy Trinity Church can be seen, which was built after the city's destruction in 1689 during the War of the Palatinate Succession .
- " Bishop Burchard - Chancellor" had the cathedral rebuilt and placed responsibility for the city wall.
- "Workers - the old coin - citizens" refer to the city's heyday in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period.
The six text panels removed after the Second World War took up the themes of the sandstone reliefs in sayings formulated by Friedrich Maria Illert and emphasized the world-historical significance of the city of Worms and the Germanness . The slogan for the sandstone relief was "Reconstruction":
When Caesar's legions reached the Rhine in 58 BC, Worms was already there.
In 1689, Melac destroyed the city at the behest of Ludwig 14th . German, remember:
Discord among the people and weakness of the empire lead to ruin.
On with granite paving is a called a "Siegfried Stein" LABEL FOR lower part of the square winepress . It was first mentioned under this name in 1611, making it the oldest monument to Siegfried and the Nibelungs in Worms.
literature
- Sebastian Bonk: On the trail of National Socialism in Worms . Worms Verlag, Worms 2005, ISBN 3-936118-41-8 , p. 18 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Photo series on the history of the cathedral environment> Stadt Worms. In: worms.de. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
- Jump up against the beginnings: Nibelungen Kurier - The newspaper for Worms and the Nibelungenland. In: nibelungen-kurier.de. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
- ^ Nibelungenlied Society. In: nibelungenlied-gesellschaft.de. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Grün: Wehrhaftes Worms. 5. The city wall: monument, document, scale. 2) Renewal measures - a civic commitment in Worms . In: Wormser monthly mirror from September 1982, pp. 53-57 (56).
- ^ Stage profiles> Worms: Jazz and Joy. In: jazzandjoy.de. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Large star line-up in Worms - culture - news - morgenweb. In: morgenweb.de. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
- ↑ New light for the place of the partnership in Worms - Wormser Zeitung. In: wormser-zeitung.de. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
- ^ Friedrich Maria Illert : The cathedral to St. Peter in Worms on the Rhine . Herbst, Worms, S. 15 (no year [1937]).
- ^ Otfrid Ehrismann: History of the city of Worms . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen . 1st edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, p. 834 f .
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 50.2 " N , 8 ° 21 ′ 31.7" E