Rabensteinplatz
| Rabensteinplatz | |
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 Rabensteinplatz to the west |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Leipzig |
| District | Center southeast |
| Confluent streets | Dresdner Strasse, Salomonstrasse, Täubchenweg |
| use | |
| User groups | Foot traffic |
| Space design | Green area, frog fountain |
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| Square area | 0.6 ha |
The Rabenstein place is situated as a green area in the eastern suburb of Leipzig court. Historically an execution site , it was converted into a green area in the 19th century. The Rabensteinplatz is a listed building.
Location and shape
The Rabensteinplatz is located in the district center-southeast . It forms an acute-angled triangle pointing to the west, the apex of which is formed by the fork in Dresdner Strasse and Täubchenweg. The two longer sides are each about 160 m, the shorter about 80 m long. The place is covered by a meadow, which is particularly in the edge areas of trees. Near the western end is the frog fountain. On the streets to the north and east are residential buildings, to the south the Grassi Museum. A tram turning loop circles the square.
history
When Leipzig was granted full jurisdiction by Elector Friedrich I , Duke of Saxony, in 1423 , it became necessary to hold places of execution . One of these places of execution was the Rabenstein at today's Rabensteinplatz. The delinquents were beheaded on a Rabenstein, which is the popular name for the elevated place of execution because of the subsequent visit by ravens, which was mainly reserved for people of higher rank. The name of the square comes from the fact that after the execution the delinquents stayed there and the crows ate it. The Leipziger Rabenstein was an oval wall over three meters high, to which a narrow iron staircase led. The convict was forced to kneel on a pile of sand or sit on a chair.
Another place of execution was located at the confluence of the court path in Dresdner Strasse, where a gallows stood and the "ordinary" criminals were executed. It is not known when the last execution took place. Both places of execution were demolished in 1822. The city used the Rabensteinstelle as a storage place for building materials for years. In 1843 the first thoughts about the design of the square came up. But it was not until 1866 that a plan by garden director Otto Wittenberg (1834–1918) was implemented with the help of the unemployed. The result was a symmetrically designed town square with two oval sand play areas for children and wooded areas to provide shade for the seven benches. In 1869 a fountain with a fountain, three dolphins and three boys was added, financed from donations.
In 1880 the square was given a public urinal for three people and in 1882 the official name Am Rabensteinplatz , which was shortened to Rabensteinplatz in 1885 .
The frog fountain 1910
Restored fountain 2018
In 1909 the sculptor Werner Stein created the frog fountain at the top of the square, the fountain sculpture of which consisted of a group of figures with two children and a large water-spouting frog. The bronze figures were melted down during the Second World War as part of the metal donation made by the German people for war purposes. An air raid shelter was built in the eastern part of the square , causing the fountain to be lost.
After the war, the visible parts of the air raid shelter were demolished and in 1951 the square was redesigned into a landscaped area, albeit without reference to the former Wittenberg design. The remains of the frog well were moved to the southeast corner. In 2005, the turning loop around the square was built as the terminus of tram line 12.
In 2017, the entire Rabensteinplatz was redesigned for 250,000 euros, some of which came from the “Urban Monument Protection” fund. Using historical recordings, the Leipzig sculptor Markus Gläser created a model of Stein's sculpture, which was cast in Dresden and has been decorating the fountain in its original location since May 2018.
literature
- Manfred Wurlitzer: The Rabensteinplatz and its surroundings: present and history , Leipzig 2013
- Rabensteinplatz - a forgotten place with a dark past Johanniskirchturm-Rundblick, district newspaper, 9th year, November 2014, p. 4–6 (digitized version)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See list of cultural monuments in Leipzig-Zentrum-Südost
- ↑ https://geheimtipp-leipzig.de/rabe-frosch-und-hochgericht/
- ↑ A place name with crows or ravens does not always have something to do with executions. So it is, for example, in Weimar with the Rabenwäldchen .
- ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig . Volume 1. ProLeipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-945027-04-2 , p. 150
- ^ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 45
- ↑ See history of the Leipzig tram network
- ↑ The new frog fountain in the center of Leipzig is inaugurated. Retrieved on May 3, 2018 (German).
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 17 ″ N , 12 ° 23 ′ 23 ″ E