Reichsstrasse (Leipzig)
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| The Reichsstrasse to the north (2010) | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Leipzig |
| District | center |
| Created | middle Ages |
| Connecting roads | Neumarkt, Brühl, Grimmaische Strasse |
| Cross streets | Schuhmachergäßchen, Salzgäßchen, Böttchergäßchen |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians, cyclists, delivery traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 354 m |
The Reichsstraße in Leipzig is a residential street in the northern inner city of Leipzig . It curves slightly in a north-south direction between Brühl and Grimmaischer Strasse. Their length is 354 meters. The eponymous old trading route Via Imperii ( Reichsstrasse ) once ran through it and crossed the Via Regia in Leipzig .
history
As early as 1100, the north-south long-distance trade route, which until then led through Hainstrasse , was relocated to the Reichsstrasse area. The first naming of the street dates back to 1421. In 1578, the city council had the builder Paul Widemann build the meat banks at the southwest end of the street , which had a large cellar and reached as far as the Naschmarkt .
In the early modern period , numerous Renaissance and Baroque houses were built , mostly with the courtyards to the neighboring streets intended for trade fair operations . Examples are Kochs Hof and Deutrichs Hof , which later became passages used for pedestrian traffic. In the north of the street near Brühl, furring and fur trading established themselves . In 1896 the new building of Löhrs Hof was added, which as a through yard formed the transition from the middle Reichsstraße to Nikolaistraße.
With the transition to the sample fair at the end of the 19th century, the necessary exhibition halls were built in Leipzig's city center, with smaller pieces of land often being combined to form larger complexes. In the southern part of the Reichsstrasse, the Reichshof (1896–1899), the Handelshof (1908/1909) and Specks Hof (1909 and later extensions) were built.
While the exhibition halls were badly damaged by bombing during World War II , the buildings on the northern part of the street were completely destroyed. After lying fallow for a long time, the spacious Sachsenplatz was built west of Reichsstraße in the late 1960s , and Reichsstraße was widened in this part and designed as a pedestrian zone with steps in its course. A six-storey residential building in the form of a courtyard had previously been built between Reichstrasse and Katharinenstrasse, followed by a seven-storey residential row on the east side of the street, each with business premises on the ground floor. The information center of the city of Leipzig (Leipzig-Information) with its fan-like roof now stood at the north-western end of Reichsstraße, while the ten- story high-rise Brühlpelz has since protruded into the line of sight of the street from the east .
With the development of Sachsenplatz from 1999 and its abolition in 2002, Reichsstraße was again designed as a continuous street.
Development
Today's development on Reichsstraße begins from the south with the Steigenberger Grandhotel Leipzig, which opened in 2011 in the renovated Handelshof. The Reichshof opposite is used as a commercial building after it housed a department store for the Soviet occupation forces during the GDR era. After Specks Hof, on the corner of Schuhmachergäßchen, there is the strikingly designed Riquethaus . It adorns Reichsstraße, but its address belongs to Schuhmachergäßchen. The adjoining car park is part of Deutrichs Hof's property, which was badly damaged in the war on Reichsstrasse, but was still used until it was demolished in 1968. Now the renovated residential buildings follow to the right and left.
For the Museum of Fine Arts , which was completed in 2004 on the former Sachsenplatz, angled edging structures were planned on the surrounding streets, the realization of which took a long time. The supplementary building of the City History Museum with the natural stone facade made of red Rochlitz porphyry was already completed in 2004 , but as a shortened angle. It was not until 2015 that an office building was added. With the completion of a hotel reaching as far as the Brühl in 2016, the western side of Reichsstraße is now fully developed again. A four-star hotel will open in the former Brühlpelz high-rise in 2017. A restaurant (Leo's Brasserie) is located in the hall building, which was once part of the high-rise.
With the redesign, Reichsstraße was planted with trees for the first time in its existence: eight winter linden trees in front of the residential block (2001), twelve imperial linden trees ( 2002) opposite the museum perimeter and five plane trees (1998) in front of Leo's Brasserie.
literature
- Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 176 .
- Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 494 .
Web links
- Panorama Reichsstraße / Speck's Hof. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hainstrasse. In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
- ^ Lexicon of Leipzig Street Names , p. 176
- ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig . From the beginning of the 20th century to the present. 1st edition. tape 3 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-945027-13-4 , pp. 192/193 (map) .
- ↑ New four-star hotel. In: LVZ January 31, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
- ^ City of Leipzig - city map (level park and street trees). Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 29.2 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 36" E