Spiegelgasse (Zurich)
The Spiegelgasse is a street in the old town of Zurich right of the Limmat . It leads from Münstergasse in a north-easterly direction to Neumarkt south of the Rindermarkt . Spiegelgasse is only around 160 meters long, but overcomes a small moraine hill so that it rises steeply at both ends.
history
It takes its name from the house at the mirror at number 2 . Before 1880 it was still called Steingasse .
The short alley is connected with great names in world history:
- Cabaret Voltaire (number 1) - Right at the beginning on the left is the Cabaret Voltaire , which was opened by Hugo Ball on February 5, 1916 and is considered the birthplace of Dadaism .
- Number 5 - The Swiss actor Emil Hegetschweiler grew up in the house, trained as a pastry chef here and took over his parents' business in 1917. In the 1920s the house developed into a meeting point for artists and in 1934 the Cabaret Cornichon was founded here with the help of Hegetschweiler .
- Napfplatz - Immediately behind property number 5 , the street opens up to Napfplatz , which, among other things, houses the fountain tower. The square stretches along Spiegelgasse to building number 13 , in which the Nomos Glashütte business premises are located. The Zurich pastor and philosopher Johann Caspar Lavater was born on November 15, 1741 in the house next to the Waldris at number 11 . He lived here until 1778 and was visited by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1775 .
- Number 12 - A few meters on the right-hand side of the street is the property where Georg Büchner spent the last months of his life and where he died of typhus on February 19, 1837 at the age of 23 .
- Number 14 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin lived on the second floor of the immediately adjacent building from February 21, 1916 to April 2, 1917 , who started the Russian Revolution from here . At the time when Lenin lived there with his wife Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya , the street was as narrow at that point as it still is in some sections. But in the 1940s the row of houses opposite was demolished and today's Leuenplatz was created.
- Images of historically significant buildings
Spiegelgasse 1 
Spiegelgasse 5 
Spiegelgasse 11 
Spiegelgasse 12
Web links
Commons : Spiegelgasse Zurich - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tabular biography of Johann Caspar Lavater (1741–1801) ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreas Jahn: Do you know Zurich? Lenin's room. NZZ , article from June 18, 2013
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '19.2 " N , 8 ° 32' 41.8" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred fifty-six / 247384