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Speersort in 2005, view from the tower of St. Petri Church to the press building; the cathedral square was used as a parking lot

Speersort is a street in Hamburg's old town and part of the Kontorhaus district . It leads from Rathausstrasse at the corner of Bergstrasse / Schmiedestrasse as a footpath along the northern edge of Domplatz and then merges into the four-lane traffic axis Domstrasse and Steinstrasse between Kreuslerstrasse and Ida-Ehre-Platz .

history

The street, which has existed since 1472, is located in the area of ​​the oldest settlement in the city between St. Petrikirche and the former Hamburg Cathedral . As an archaeological site, it is entered in the list of cultural monuments in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Mitte . Presumably it was named after Ditmar Speer, who bought a corner piece of land at this location in 1468. Another explanation is that the name of the adjacent church is appropriately a contraction of St. Peter's place .

After the cathedral was demolished in 1806, the Johanneum School of Academics was built in 1838 on the site at Domplatz / Speersort . From 1914 the state and university library was housed in the building ; in the Second World War it was largely destroyed in the bombing raids in 1943 , and the remains were removed in 1955 for road widening. The portal of the house Speersort 12/14 from the 17th century is still preserved, which is today in the jewelry garden of the Museum of Hamburg History .

building

There are some striking buildings along the street:

Helmut Schmidt House, Speersort 1
  • At number 1 on the corner of Domplatz, along Buceriusstraße, today's Helmut-Schmidt-Haus extends until 2016: Pressehaus , which was built in 1938 for the National Socialist Hamburger Tageblatt , which housed several publishers after the war and which is now Die Time for their editorial team.
  • The Wattyhaus is an office building from 1911 with a striking, red and white brick facade at Speersort 6.
  • In the basement of the St. Petri-Hof, newly built in 2011 with the address Speersort 10, you can visit the Bishop 's Tower, a ring-shaped tower foundation from the 12th century, which is considered the oldest remaining stone building in the city ​​center .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Struck: The Beginnings of the City of Hamburg ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 14, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.uni-hamburg.de
  2. ^ Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell history , Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-929229-41-2 , page 44

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 59.5 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 51.8"  E