Spitalfields
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 ′ N , 0 ° 5 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | TQ335815 | ||
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| Residents | 10,286 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | LONDON | ||
| ZIP code section | E1 | ||
| prefix | 020 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | London | ||
| London Borough | Tower Hamlets | ||
| British Parliament | Bethnal Green and Bow | ||
Spitalfields is a neighborhood in east London district London Borough of Tower Hamlets . Nearby are Liverpool Street Station and Brick Lane , which is the location of the Brick Lane Market , a Sunday market dominated by immigrants from Bangladesh . The name of the district goes back to a contraction of hospital fields (German "Spitalfelder"). In 1197 an abbey was founded there with St. Mary's Hospital . The traditional fruit and vegetable market, Old Spitalfields Market , had existed since the 17th century and was relocated to Leyton in the Waltham Forest district as New Spitalfields Market in 1991 . However, due to popular protests, this historic market on part of the old site has been successfully revived and attracts 20,000 visitors on Sundays. Spitalfields is today u. a. known as a marketplace for organically grown food.
Spitalfields is also famous for its art scene. In 1901 the Whitechapel Art Gallery was built with public funds, "to bring great art to the people of the East End of London" (German "to bring great art to the people in the East End of London "). The building was built by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Art Nouveau style of the English Arts and Crafts movement . Exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery have always enjoyed international renown and brought z. From the end of the 1950s , for example, Pop Art started talking. Spitalfields has been a favorite place to live for artists since the early 20th century. Today u live there a. the body artists Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore ( see Gilbert & George ) and the performance artist Stuart Brisley.
In 1612 English religious refugees who had returned to England after several years of asylum in the Netherlands founded the first British Baptist church in Spitalfields under the direction of Thomas Helwys .
The district was one of the slums of the East End of London in the 19th century. Two of the Jack the Ripper victims were found in Spitalfields. On September 8, 1888, Annie Chapman's body was discovered near a doorway on Hanbury Street and on November 9, 1888, Mary Jane Kelly was found in her apartment near what was then Dorset Street .
literature
- A quarter of misery and work . In: The Gazebo . Volume 2, 1853, pp. 3–18 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Location of the London borough of Spitalfields. streetmap.co.uk
- Old Spitalfields Market - commercial homepage of VisitSpitalfields Ltd. (English)
- London Markets Map (Spitalfields and Brick Lane, top right)
- Photos from Brick Lane Market
- Bricklane virtual e-tour with Truman Brewery requires Shockwave Player
- Homepage of the farm project “Spitalfields City Farm”, Weaver Street, London E1 5HJ
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at hidden-london.com
- ^ Whitechapel Art Gallery website: History
- ^ Casebook: Jack the Ripper