Rindermarkt (Passau)
The Rindermarkt is located - not far from the Danube - between the Paulusbogen, originally the oldest city gate and in Roman times the only access from the countryside, and the Heuwinkel, in the old town of the three-river city of Passau, thanks to the Italian builders Giovanni Battista Carlone and Carlo Lurago . Especially in the summer months, the cattle market has something of a real Italian piazza, as it is a tourist attraction and, with its cafes, a popular meeting place.
As early as 1209 it was mentioned under its original name "Unter den Schmieden". The cattle market is the beginning (Haus Kantner) and therefore part of the pedestrian zone. It is located in the immediate and flood-proof vicinity of the shipping docks on the Danube, from where shipping to the Black Sea begins.
Development
- North side
Around 1200 the St.-Johannes-Spital was built on the north side , to which a brother house, a brewery and a grain box belonged. At the end of the 14th century it was supplemented by the church of St. Johann am Spital. The hospital was the starting point of the devastating city fire of 1662. Nothing of its original structure has survived; the modern St. Johannis-Stift is today a retirement and nursing home. The Hotel Passauer Wolf, which was built by the merchant Anton Korntheuer, has a listed rococo facade.
- East Side
The baroque church of St. Paul on the east side, in which the grave monument of shipmaster Lukas Kern can be seen, was completed in 1678. Up until the end of the 18th century, the civic cemetery was also located on the east side of the Rindermarkt, and later moved to St. Severin in Passau's Innstadt.
- South side
The Roman wall on the Domberg and the adjoining houses limit the cattle market on the south side. The Chancellor's House was built at the end of the 19th century by the bookbinder Julius Kanzler. Haus Kantner, which is only located on Rindermarkt in the pedestrian zone, was built in the mid-19th century by the merchant Leopold Kantner (1839–1885) and is the only house on Rindermarkt that is still family-owned.
The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments lists the house numbers 6/8 (Hotel Passauer Wolf), 7 (Chancellor House), 9 (House Kantner), 12 (Church St. Johann including fountain), 14 (Old / Nursing home and commercial building) and 16 (nursing home and commercial building).
literature
- Otto Geyer: Passau streets. Bavarian Teachers' Association, Passau District Association, Passau 1977, p. 89 f.
- Franz Mader: The streets and squares in Passau. Historical-topographical handbook in words and pictures. Edited by Max Brunner and Richard Schaffner. Series of publications by the Passau City Archives, Passau 2003, p. 186.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ' N , 13 ° 28' E