Market Square (Stuttgart)
The Stuttgart market square is located in Stuttgart-Mitte directly in front of the Stuttgart City Hall . Its origins go back to 1304. After the destruction in the Second World War , none of the historic buildings on the market square were rebuilt at the will of Mayor Arnulf Klett , which was already criticized in the 1950s.
Events
The weekly market, a purely producers ' market, takes place on the square every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning .
Several events are held on the marketplace every year. Some of them stretch to Schillerplatz and through Kirchstrasse, which connects both squares.
This applies, for example, to the Stuttgart wine village , which in late summer mainly brings out the Württemberg wines and regional specialties. The Stuttgart Christmas market follows during the whole of Advent , it is one of the largest in Europe.
Always on the last weekend of July, the big Hocketse for the CSD Stuttgart is celebrated on Marktplatz and Schillerplatz with lots of live music and open-air disco.
The Festival of Cultures also takes place on the market square in midsummer.
World War II bunker
A curiosity is the bunker hotel that existed from 1945 to 1985 under the Stuttgart market square. This hotel had the usual facilities, but only ventilation shafts instead of windows. A cheap hotel with 100 beds (initially camp beds) was created from the former bunker. The rooms still exist today, but have fallen into disrepair. The bunker hotel can i. d. Usually visited once a year as part of the long night of the museums.
The auctioneer Franz Eppli initiated an architectural competition in 1995 to make the bunker accessible to the public and to redesign the market square. The winning design by Neugebauer + Roesch Architekten - a multifunctional glass prism as an entrance pavilion to underground shops - was not implemented, but is being discussed again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ welt.de Die Welt from October 16, 1999: How Stuttgart lost its face v. Dankwart Guratzsch
- ↑ Bunkerhotel Stuttgart Bunkerhotels in Stuttgart Accessed on August 30, 2014
- ↑ Bunker architecture competition at stadtanzeiger-im-netz.de ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2014 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.
- ↑ N + R Architects [1]
Web links
- City views: Oh, how beautiful was Stuttgart - historical views of the market square and the old town of Stuttgart, StN.de, January 12, 2012
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 31 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 42 ″ E