Roude Pëtz

The Roude Pëtz , looking west into the Groussgaass

The Roude Pëtz ( Luxembourgish ; French: Place du Puits Rouge ) is a public square in Luxembourg City . It is located in the upper part of Luxembourg on Groussgaass , where Rue Genistre flows from the southwest. The square, which today is part of the extensive inner-city pedestrian zone , ends in the east with the Rue du Fossé . This triangular square was the place of judgment until the beginning of modern times .

The Roude Pëtz around 1915, looking east

The Red Fountain , from which the square got its name and which was exclusively available to members of the nearby garrison, was located here since 1741 . It is believed that the name red comes from the red well house, which was built from sandstone of the same color . With the construction of the aqua tunnel , all fountains in the upper town were closed and the fountain house demolished. The stones of the fountain house were reused around 1868 in the construction of a public fountain in the Bonneweg district . Today a small fountain adorns the center of “Red Square” again, a work by the artist Will Lofy.

Important buildings lining the north side are the Maison Moderne fashion store (house number 16), originally built by Georges Traus in 1913 and rebuilt in 1971 according to modernist plans by Robert Lentz. The five-storey building with reinforced concrete structure and curtain wall was extensively renovated in 2009. On the opposite corner to Rue de Fossé is the Mohr pharmacy (Pharmacie des Nègres) (house number 8), the corner of which is still adorned by a larger-than-life Mohr sculpture, even if it is no longer the original work. This was a faience work until the 1950s .

Corner house on Rue de Genistre from 1890

At the southeast corner is the building à la Bourse from 1934, which forms a unit with its two neighboring houses on Rue du Fossé and was built as part of the plan to widen the street to lead to the Viaduct Passerelle . À la Bourse with its three upper floors is characterized by New Objectivity . The dominant ribbon windows run around the corner of the house in a large radius. Three houses to the west is house number 23, built in 1890 and listed as a historical monument since May 1978.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our city : What do the city street names mean? , Issue 47/1994, p. 32
2. ↑ Our city : Bronze on De neie Roude Pëtz , issue 10/1982, pp. 8–9

literature

• Christian Aschman, Joanna Grodecki, Robert L. Philippart: Lëtzebuerg Moderne , Maison Moderne publishing house, Luxemburg-Bonnevoie, November 2013, pp. 16-25

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '42.8 "  N , 6 ° 7' 52.4"  E