Steckner Passage

In the Steckner Passage (1883)

The Steckner Passage was a shopping arcade in Leipzig that was destroyed in the Second World War . After the theater arcade, it was the second shopping arcade in the city to be built in this way.

Location and description

The Steckner-Passage ran from the left side of the Steckner department store, Petersstraße 2, angled over a total length of 75 meters to house no. 3 on the east side of the Thomaskirchhof , which also belonged to the Steckner company. The most important part of the passage was a wide and 22 meter long atrium . It was spanned above the first floor by a skylight construction made of steel and glass. Attractive shops lined up on both sides.

Layout
Entrance to the passage in Petersstrasse (around 1875)
Entrance to the Thomaskirchhof (around 1880)
Passage ruins in 1949
Passage Square today (2015)

history

A connection from Petersstraße to the part of the Thomaskirchhof called Sack existed before 1749. It ran at Plenckners Hof (No. 6) and existed until at least 1902.

In 1873 the silk and fashion merchant Gustav Steckner had a four-storey commercial building built on the Petersstrasse at the corner of Thomasgäßchen according to plans by the Leipzig architect Ottomar Jummel. He had the area in between to a building belonging to him at the Thomaskirchhof set up as a shopping mall with entrances from both sides. The building at the Thomaskirchhof was redesigned in 1889.

The entire complex was destroyed in the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . The area was not built on again. It now allows a clear view between the old town hall and St. Thomas Church and forms with meadow and trees ( wild cherry ) a rest area (Thomas Wiese) in the city center.

literature

Wolfgang Hocquél : Steckner Passage . In: The Leipziger Passagen & Höfe. Architecture of European standing . Sax-Verlag Beucha • Markkleeberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86729-087-6 , p. 146/147
Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 455 .

Web links

Commons : Steckner-Passage - Collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ City map 1749
↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, p. 58, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0
↑ 1902 city map

51.339669 12.374259Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 22.8 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 27.3 ″ E

[1] City map 1749

[2] Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, p. 58, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0

[3] 1902 city map