Schwanenmarkt (Bochum)

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Schwanenmarkt 1908
Schwanenmarkt 1909

The Schwanenmarkt was a square on the edge of Bochum's old town in the area of ​​the intersection of Nordring / Ostring and Castroper Straße near the St. Elisabeth Hospital Bochum . It was not far from Bochum's north train station . The name probably indicates that there was a pig market here.

The square was preceded by a pond that was still marked on a city map from 1842. He was the source for the Mühlenbach (Goldbecke). It was probably drained between the 1850s and 1870s.

In 1900 a well was created. The Bochum master stonemason Josef Schmidt created it from granite and red marble. It was decorated with animal sculptures (snail, water rat and two dolphins). Water sprang from a lion's head. The fountain was popularly known as the "Lion Fountain". Older maps show it from the front with the Rheinische Strasse in the direction of the station of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. Around 1914/15 it was moved to the side with the railway embankment. He was eliminated in the 1950s.

An important tram stop was located here until the early 1980s. Lines 8/18 to Gerthe and 7/17 to Harpen ended here from 1908; later they turned off here, as the lines continued into the city center. The lavatory with a pump room is still preserved today. The building is unused. It is owned by the city of Bochum.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Frank Dengler: Greetings from Bochum: The origin of the Schwanenmarkt. In: Ruhr-Nachrichten , September 22, 2009
  2. ↑ https://m.bochum.de/C125708500379A31/vwContentByKey/W27CUJ4L459BOLDDE
  3. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bochum: Josef Schmidt hereditary crypt
  4. ↑ Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann: Once upon a time, a fountain bubbled on the Schwanenmarkt. In: The West , part of Bochum, March 1, 2015
  5. ↑ Schwanenmarkt. In: Bochumumschau, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '0.5 "  N , 7 ° 13' 20.2"  E