Prinzregentenplatz (Augsburg)
The Prinzregentenplatz is a square in the station district of Augsburg . In the center of the square is the Prinzregentenbrunnen in honor of the Prince Regent Luitpold .
Coming from the train station in the west, Prinzregentenstrasse initially runs straight towards the Prinzregentenbrunnen, then it forks in front of the square. Your left course keeps the name Prinzregentenstrasse; the one on the right is called Holbeinstrasse after Prinzregentenplatz.
In the north-west of the square, surrounded by a garden, is the Augsburg deaconess house . To the east of the square is the local management of the AOK Bavaria and the social court . The district office of the Augsburg district is located in the south of the Prinzregentenplatz . An important post-war building in the southeast of the square is the finance and main customs office .
history
At the end of the 19th century, the Augsburg city magistrate decided to erect a monument to the Prince Regent on his 80th birthday. For this purpose, a monumental fountain was planned on the former Schnurbeinschen garden area and construction began in 1901. The unveiling of the fountain was then celebrated in 1903.
The Prinzregentenplatz was originally more spacious than it is today. In the years 1929–1931, the AOK building was built in its east, and the part of the space between the fountain and the AOK building is used for parking spaces. Today the square has a semi-circular shape and hedges demarcate the fountain area from the parking spaces behind it.
The construction of the tax and main customs office began in December 1937, with that of the Reichsbahndirektion (today the district office) in May 1938. The tax office was destroyed in the air raids on Augsburg in February 1944 and rebuilt in 1954/55.
The Prinzregentenbrunnen
The fountain consists of a basin made of shell limestone with a diameter of 13 meters, framed with granite steps. In the middle rises an octagonal pedestal , on the four broad sides of which the predecessors of the Prince Regent are depicted. Above is the 867 kg heavy and 2.6 meter high bronze figure, the work of the Munich sculptor Franz Bernauer .
literature
- Jürgen Bartel: Augsburg fountain . Brigitte Settele Verlag, Augsburg 1989, p. 55 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augsburger Stadtlexikon
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 3.4 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 22 ″ E