Prinzenweg (Braunschweig)

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Prinzenweg
coat of arms
Street in Braunschweig
Prinzenweg
View from the west into Prinzenweg. The bridge leads over the Neustadtmühlengraben . The building on the left is the Echternstraße primary school.
Basic data
place Braunschweig
District Old town
Created 14th Century
Newly designed after 1945
Hist. Names by der goten (1402),
uppe der gothen (1530); at the old Michaelistore (1813-1857),
Prinzenwinkel (1858)
Connecting roads to the east: Südstrasse
Cross streets to the north: Echternstraße ;
to the south: Beginekenworth;
from south to north: Wilhelmitorwall ; Güldenstrasse , Gieseler
Buildings formerly: Elf-Apostel-Haus ;
today: Remnants of the city wall from the 15th century, birth and death house of Kurt Seeleke , Echternstrasse school
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 100 m

The Prinzenweg is a short street on the southern edge of the city of Braunschweig , in the historic precincts of Old Town .

history

The Prinzenweg runs along the southern border of the medieval old town along the only small remnants of the city ​​wall from the 15th century. If you come from the west via the old road leading to Goslar and then on to Frankfurt am Main , you used to have to go through the Michaelistor and over one of the numerous bridges over the Oker, which flows around and through the city . The Michaelistor was closed in 1716/1719, partially demolished in 1789 and finally completely in 1794. The path used to be the western extension of the Südstraße and had different names over the centuries, e.g. B. 1402 by der goten or between 1813 and 1857 at the old Michaelistore . From 1858 until the late 1870s it was called "Prinzenwinkel", as the chronicle of the city of Braunschweig records the "inauguration of the building for the 3rd middle class school on Prinzenwinkel (Echternstraße)" for October 15, 1874. The name change to the name "Prinzenweg", which is still valid today, was carried out in 1879/80, although it is unclear what the trigger was and where the name was derived from. There is no evidence for the assumption, which has been widespread until recently, that it was derived from the nearby "Eugeniusbollwerk", part of the Braunschweig city fortifications , named after Prince Eugene of Savoy .

Buildings

city ​​wall

Rest of the city wall from the 15th century. Prinzenweg runs parallel to the rear.

Along a small part of the south side of the Prinzenweg, in a small square in the direction of Güldenstraße , there are remains of the city wall of the old town from the 15th century. The red sandstone wall, which tapers towards the top, is five meters high and originally had a wooden battlement . This wall was part of the defensive structures surrounding the entire city (consisting of the five soft forms Altewiek , Altstadt , Hagen , Neustadt and Sack ) since around 1218 . The house with the insurance number 556 (later Prinzenweg 4) was attached to this remains of the wall until it was destroyed in the Second World War .

Eleven Apostle House

The Elf Apostle House around 1910.

The three-storey half - timbered house with the insurance number 556 was probably built in 1560 by Steffen Bartram, who owned it until 1591. A bar bore the inscription: "STEFFEN BARTRAM // M // D // LX" ( Steffen Bartram 1560 ). On the street side, sculptural figures of eleven apostles were attached to the house . So it was called the "Eleven Apostle House" or just "Apostle House". In 1600 it was bought by Curd Doring , mayor of the old town. In 1610 he founded the "Döring Foundation", a beguinage, in this house and a neighboring house . Nine conventual women lived there in 1897, and three in 1936.

The building was destroyed in bombing during the Second World War. After the rubble was cleared, the property was not built on again and, as a mixture of sidewalk and square, was given its current name “Beginekenworth”, which refers to the beguines who lived in the destroyed Elf Apostle House.

Güldenstraße 1, at the corner of Prinzenweg

The building that still exists at Güldenstrasse 1, at the corner of Prinzenweg, was the house where the art historian and Braunschweig state curator Kurt Seeleke was born and died .

Impressions

literature

Web links

Commons : Prinzenweg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Heinrich Meier: The street names of the city of Braunschweig , p. 84
  2. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: City wall. In Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 217-218 .
  3. ↑ Gerd Spies : Braunschweig, the image of the city in 900 years. History and views. Volume 1. Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig 1985, p. 62.
  4. ↑ Gerd Spies: Braunschweig, the image of the city in 900 years. History and views. Volume 1, p. 72.
  5. ↑ Johannes Angel: Michaelistor. In Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 158 .
  6. ^ Chronicle of the city of Braunschweig for 1874
  7. ↑ Braunschweig address book for the year 1879. Volume III. Alphabetical list of streets. P. 91: Prinzenwinkel.
  8. ^ Braunschweig address book for the year 1880. Volume IV. Alphabetical index of the streets. P. 94: Prinzenweg.
  9. ↑ Gerd Spies (Ed.): Braunschweig - The image of the city in 900 years. History and views. Volume 1 City History , Braunschweig 1985, p. 63.
  10. ^ Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 492 † . urn : nbn: de: 0238-di056g009k0049204 ( inschriften.net ).
  11. ^ Heinrich Meier : Heraldic investigations in the architecture of the city of Braunschweig. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin , published by Paul Zimmermann , Nro. January 1, 1903, p. 40.
  12. ^ Heinrich Meier : News about town houses of earlier centuries. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin , published by Paul Zimmermann , Nro. January 1st, 3rd, 1897, p. 40.
  13. ^ Rudolf Blasius (Ed.): Braunschweig in the year MDCCCXCVII. Festschrift for the participants in the LXIX meeting of German natural scientists and doctors. Meyer, Braunschweig 1897, p. 427 ( publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de ).
  14. ^ Braunschweigisches Adressbuch for the year 1936. 122nd edition, printing and publishing house Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1936, p. 187.
  15. ↑ Braunschweig guidance and information system for culture (BLIK): about Beginekenworth
  16. ↑ Braunschweig guidance and information system for culture (BLIK): about Kurt Seeleke

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 34.3 "  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 54.2"  E