Stockhaus (Leipzig)

The house on the right behind the old trading exchange

The Stockhaus was a 19th century building on Naschmarkt in Leipzig .

Location and shape

The main front of the Stockhaus faced the Old Trading Exchange and was the corner building at Naschmarkt / Salzgäßchen. The right neighboring building was the city police station. The Stockhaus was a simple building with ten window axes facing the Naschmarkt. The outer axes were flat projections . Three more floors rose above the ground floor and mezzanine .

history

The floor house was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The predecessor building was the castle cellar, which had been built in 1592 and contained the bread banks , the cookshop , a drinking room and other things. In a small tower, called the Spindler Tower after its first occupant, culpable bankrupts had been arrested.

The multi-storey building also served a similar purpose. The top three floors consisted of holding cells for one or more prisoners. Inmates were both prisoners on remand and convicts with prison terms of a few months. The house got its name from this use, because the "stick" was also the name for a prison at that time.

The apartment of the “stick master” was on the first floor. In addition, a guard from the Leipzig municipal guard was housed in the house . The Leipzig litter-bearers , who were ousted by cabs from 1841 and then performed other services, also had their quarters here.

When the construction of the Handelshof as a second sample fair exhibition house was being prepared from 1904 , the Stockhaus fell victim to demolition along with all the buildings in the block.

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  The castle cellar on the Naschmarkt, predecessor of the Stockhaus

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  The Naschmarkt around 1880 with the Stockhaus (back right)

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  The Goethe monument with the stock exchange and the Stockhaus 1903

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  The demolition of the house in 1904

literature

• Adolf Lippold: Of night watchmen, junk Jews and harp girls - memories of an old Leipzig man. Lehmstedtverlag, Leipzig, 2004, ISBN 3-937146-18-0
• Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Leipzig around 1800 , Lehmstedtverlag, Leipzig, 2010, ISBN 978-3-942473-03-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lippold, p. 346
2. ^ Leonhardi p. 41
3. ↑ cf. also “Stock” in the German dictionary by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, section 1-f-δ
4. ↑ Lippold p. 210

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 26.4 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 33.4"  E