Rue de la Harpe

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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '  N , 2 ° 21'  E

Rue de la Harpe
location
Arrondissement 5.
quarter La Sorbonne
Beginning 31, rue de la Huchette
The End 98, Boulevard Saint-Germain
morphology
length 220 m
width 12 m
history
Emergence 12th Century
designation May 10, 1851
Original names Vicus Reginaldi Citharatoris
vicus Reginaldi dicti le Harpeur
vicus Vetus Bouclearia
vicus Vetus Judearia
18 other names
Coding
Paris 4427

The Rue de la Harpe in Paris is one of the oldest streets in the city. It is located in the Quartier de la Sorbonne in the 5th arrondissement and was one of the main axes of the Rive Gauche in the Middle Ages until it was replaced by the Boulevard Saint-Michel in the 19th century . Today, Rue de la Harpe is one of the Latin Quarter's most popular streets for tourists .

Name origin

The name dates back to 1247 and was originally only valid for the northern part, as can be seen from a plaque on the 2nd house on the right in Rue Mâcon .

course

The Rue de la Harpe begins at the Rue de la Huchette 31, a few meters from the Place Saint-Michel, and ends after 220 meters at the Boulevard Saint-Germain 98. It crosses the Rue Saint-Sévérin.

history

The Rue de la Harpe - as far as the part south of the Rue Saint-Sévérin is concerned - dates back to Gallo-Roman times. At that time it probably began at the Petit Pont , the southern of the two bridges of the Cardo, and ran southwest to the current intersection with the Rue Sévérin (and can be traced from here), was a parallel street to the Cardo, today's Rue Saint-Jacques , and carried the matching name via inferior (Latin via = way, street - inferus = below: lower street), which was later corrupted to "Rue d'Enfer". The Rue de la Harpe extended in the Middle Ages to the city wall, to the Porte Gibard , Porte Saint-Michel or Porte d'Enfer on today's Rue Soufflot and then continued to run parallel to the continuation of Rue Saint-Jacques , Rue du Faubourg Saint -Jacques .

With the construction of a second crossing over the Seine, the Petit Pont Neuf ( 1378 ), later called Pont Saint-Michel , the lower part of the Rue de la Harpe was cut off from the Petit Pont and (over the Rue Vieille Boucherie) with this new bridge connected.

In the 1850s, Baron Haussmann had the road between Pont Saint-Michel and the thermal baths straightened as part of his urban development measures, creating the lower part of today's Boulevard Saint-Michel ; the continuation of this boulevard was given the same name, the rue de la Harpe was trimmed out of town to its current length, but extended at its northern end, north of the rue Saint-Sévérin, by the rue Vieille Boucherie.

Previous names of the Rue de la Harpe are:

  • South of Rue Saint-Sévérin:
    • Rue de la Juiverie
    • Rue de la vielle Juiverie
    • Vicus Cithare in Judearia (1247)
    • Vicus Judeorum (1257),
    • Vicus Harpe (1270)
    • Vicus Herpe
    • Vicus de Cithara (1254)
  • Outside the city wall of Philipp August :
    • Rue Neuve Outre la Porte Saint-Michel
    • Rue d'Énfer.
  • Between the Rue Saint-Sévérin and the Seine
    • Vicus Reginaldi Citharatoris (1247)
    • Vicus Reginaldi dicti le Harpeur (1265)
    • Vicus Vetus Bouclearia
    • Vicus Vetus Judearia
    • Rue de la vielle Boucherie (1272)
    • Rue de la Petite Bouclerie (1300)
    • Rue de l'Abreuvoir Mascon (1391)
    • Rue Neuve Mâcon or Rue de l'Abreuvoir Mâcon (1401)
    • Rue de l'Abreuvoir Mâcon or Rue Neuve Saint-Michel (1409)
    • Rue Neuve du pont Saint-Michel or Rue Neuve de la Bouclerie (1406)
    • Rue de la Grant Bouclerie (1405)
    • Rue Neuve Saint-Michel (1469)
    • Rue de la vielle Bouclerie.

Notable buildings

  • House No. 1 and 2: View of the Rue de la Huchette
  • Near the Pont Saint-Michel : the bookseller, juror at the Nicolas Le Clerc University, under the name of Saint-Lambert ; between 1726 and 1738
  • House No. 12: private villa, a small door with a bay window, mezzanine; Increase on three levels, plus attic; three tall windows on the facade with wrought iron railings. The painter Eladio Vélez lived there from 1929 to 1931.
  • House number 18: At this point there was a small street, "Rue Poupée", which led here from Rue Hautefeuille . The house became the Hotel du Levant in 1880.
  • House number 22: This is where rue Percée-Saint-André was located, which came from rue Hautefeuille and flows into today's Impasse Hautefeuille .
House number 24
  • House No. 24: Today the University of Paris is a student residence
  • House no. 35: facade, roof on the Rue de la Harpe, wrought iron staircase and handrail, which on 28 December in 1979 under monument protection were asked.
  • House No. 37: The facade and roof (facing the street) as well as the internal staircase of this private property were placed under monument protection on February 25, 1974 .
  • House No. 45: Former town house with a monumental front door (wing door), placed under monument protection on March 24, 1928 . Masks, elevation on three floors plus attic, two arched bays on each side of the carriage portal, paved inner courtyard with apse domes and fountain.
  • House number 80: last apartment of the engraver Noël Le Mire , who died here in 1801.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rue de la Harpe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean de La Tynna, Dictionnaire topographique, étymologique et historique des rues de Paris , 1812
  2. ↑ Lettres édifiantes, et curieuses écrites of missions étrangères, par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus , Collection XVII, Paris, with Nicolas Le Clerc, 1726; and Collection XXIII, 1738