Southern city center (hall)

Glaucha was a redirect to this article. For other meanings, see Glaucha (disambiguation) .

Southern inner city district of Halle (Saale)
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Coordinates	51 ° 28 '28 "  N , 11 ° 58' 14"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '28 "  N , 11 ° 58' 14"  E.
Residents	23,109 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Postcodes	06110, 06112
prefix	0345
	Saxony-Anhalt
Transport links
Federal road
tram	1 2 3 8

The St. Georgen Church in Glaucha

The southern inner city is a district of the Halle district in the Mitte district of the city of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany . It also includes the area of ​​the former city of Glaucha.

location

The quarter stretches from the main station in the east to the Saale in the west.

The exact border of the district runs along the following streets and squares: Glauchaer Platz, Moritzzwinger, Franckeplatz, Waisenhausring, Waisenhausmauer, Franckestraße, Ernst-Kamieth-Straße, Raffineriestraße, Merseburger Straße, Karl-Meseberg-Straße, Otto-Kilian-Straße, Beesener Straße , Flurstrasse, Warneckstrasse. The Saale forms the western boundary.

As additional area names, the city of Halle has the Johannesviertel and Glaucha as so-called for the southern inner city. City quarters designated.

Neighboring districts

• North: Old Town , Northern Inner City
• East: area of ​​the DR
• South: Gesundbrunnen , Lutherplatz / Thuringian train station
• West: Saale floodplain

Distinctive buildings

See also : List of cultural monuments in Halle (Saale) / southern inner city

Torstrasse on Rannischer Platz

In the area of ​​the southern inner city are the buildings of the Francke Foundations , the Elisabeth Hospital, the Police Directorate Saxony-Anhalt South, the Künstlerhaus 188, as well as the Catholic Church of St. Franziskus and St. Elisabeth , the Glauchaer Georgen Church and the Johanneskirche .

Glaucha

Glaucha ( Sorbian Glouch, "swampy area, lowland") was a small official town at the gates of Halle (Saale) , whose origins go back to the 7th century. The Glauchaer church St. Georgen was first mentioned in 1121. From the year 1231, when the Cistercian convent Marienkammer was founded, the place became increasingly dependent on the economy. The monastery , which gradually acquired all of the larger lands (by donation or purchase), employed most of the Glaucha citizens on its property shortly before the Reformation . When, after the Reformation, almost all of the monastery property passed to the city of Halle, the Glaucha people were granted free branding, bar and market rights in order to be able to feed themselves, whereupon Glaucha quickly became Halles' pub mile.

As a media town, Glaucha belonged to the hall circle of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . The Thirty Years War ruined the small community economically and morally. In the second half of the 17th century, addiction to drinking and gambling shaped public life. According to the records of August Hermann Francke, there were 37 inns in around 200 houses . Since 1680 the city belonged to the Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg and was in the then Saalkreis. When a plague epidemic wiped out 800 out of 1200 inhabitants in 1682, the disaster was perfect. Countless orphans begged from door to door, and social life was completely broke. August Hermann Francke got into this situation when he became pastor in Glaucha in 1692 . He founded a school for the poor there in 1695 , from which the Francke Foundations later developed as one of the most progressive educational institutions in Europe .

During the French occupation (1807 to 1813) Glaucha was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia and assigned to the Halle district in the Saale department. The city was the capital of the canton of Glaucha . Glaucha has belonged to Halle since October 31, 1817.

Personalities

• August Hermann Francke, pastor in Glaucha
• Christian David Jani (1743–1790), Rector of the Lutheran Gymnasium in Halle (Saale) and the Royal Gymnasium in Eisleben .
• Georg Christian Knapp (1753–1825), Protestant theologian and university professor

Web links

Commons : Südliche Innenstadt (Halle)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Halle (Saale) in figures 2016 (PDF) accessed on December 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Halle: Overview of the city district
2. ^ City of Halle: Overview of the city structure
3. ↑ Mention of the place in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 119 f.
4. ^ Description of the Saale Department