Roßmarkt (Chemnitz)

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Saxonia Fountain on the Roßmarkt
Rossmarkt with Saxonia Fountain

The Roßmarkt was one of the old places in Chemnitz . It owes its name to the horse trade that originally took place there. It was between the Holzmarkt (now Rosenhof) and the Falkeplatz . The stables of the post office were located here from 1818. The Hotel de Saxe and the first Chemnitz theater were located in a courtyard on the southeast corner of the market. The Saxonia Fountain was on the square .

Roßmarkt 4 at the beginning of the 19th century
Roßmarkt 4 at the beginning of the 20th century

In the 1820s, the Clauss brothers, who ran the cotton spinning mill in Plaue, bought the Roßmarkt No. 4 building Yarns used by the Chemnitz stocking and glove manufacturers.

Also on Roßmarkt, initially in houses 7 and 8, from 1904 in Roßmarkt 11, was the “Art Trade Department” of the Gustav Gerstenberger paper shop. After the destruction in World War II, the gallery moved to Poststrasse.

Web links

  • Historical Chemnitz: The Roßmarkt [1]
  • Chemnitz stories: Roßmarkt - Holzmarkt - Rosenhof [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EI Clauss Nachf. (Ed.): A century of cotton fine spinning 1809-1909 . June 1909 ( baumwolle-floeha.de [PDF] Festschrift).
  2. ↑ Christoph Heyden: Excursion into the unrenovated past. Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG, May 7, 2018, accessed on May 7, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Lost Art Internet Database - Private persons and corporations involved in the Nazi cultural property theft - Gerstenberger. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 51.9 ″  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 3.1 ″  E