Pontstrasse
The Pontstraße is a street in Aachen that the Ponttor to the market place in front of the town hall runs. It is part of the former royal route that kings took in the Middle Ages when they came via Krefeld and Roermond . They were crowned in the imperial city of Aachen. The description platea que punt appelatur for this street can already be found in 1232 . This could be translated as “road that is called punt ”.
At the junction with the road Pontdriesch lying Heilig Kreuz . The former priory house has stood nearby since 1372 . Paul Julius Reuter founded the Reuters news agency, which is still known today, in the building at Pontstrasse 117 . Further south, the road crosses part of the old wall ring ( Barbarossa Wall ). The so-called Pontmittelor was also located here . On the right-hand side in the direction of the market square is the Lombard (Pontstrasse 53) , which was built in 1573 and is a former pawn shop , to which Laurenz Mefferdatis built an auction room in 1705. In World War II, as well as beside it Theresienkirche destroyed, is a part of the building, the Lombard Hall, reconstructed today and serves the RWTH Aachen as a representative function hall.
Opposite the Lombard, at Pontstrasse 76-80, the monastery of the Teutonic Order Commander St. Aegidius , a commander of the Deutschordensballei Alden Biesen , was located since the 14th century . Of the monastery complex of the building destroyed in 1944, only parts of the surrounding walls still exist today. In the further course of the street is the second oldest house in Aachen from 1495, also called the Great House of Aachen . It bears house number 13. The stone house survived the town fire of 1656 . From 1851 to 1854 it was converted into a police headquarters by city architect Friedrich Joseph Ark and served, among other things, as a prison. Today it is the building of the International Newspaper Museum . Further south is the Aula Carolina , the former church of St. Catherine of the Augustinian Hermits' monastery . Its construction is first mentioned in the 13th century. However, the foundation stone for the building known today was laid on May 11, 1663.
The end of Pontstrasse on the market square is characterized by the two listed corner houses Haus Löwenstein from 1344 and Haus Brussels , built by Jakob Couven in 1785 .
Today there are numerous pubs, cafés, restaurants, discos and RWTH Aachen buildings in Pontstraße. In the northern part, it is mostly a meeting place for young people.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosemarie Herrmann: Aachener streets in anecdotes and facts . tape 2 . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 1995, ISBN 3-89124-231-X , p. 15-18 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 50.7 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 45.7" E