Theater passage
The Theaterpassage in Leipzig is a connecting passage between Augustusplatz and Nikolaikirchhof .
Location and description
The eastern passage entrance is on the ground floor of the Krochhochhaus in Goethestrasse. In an open vestibule supported by two pillars, 14 steps lead down to the left in the back into a relatively narrow corridor with a trendy bar and a shop. In the further course you will find the bar and lounge of a hotel to the right and left .
In the entrance area on Goethestrasse there is also access to the University's Egyptian Museum , which has been located in the Krochhochhaus since 2010, where the university's custodian exhibition center had previously been located since 1983 .
history
Entrance Goethestr. around 1905
In the passage around 1900
The passage as a ruin, 1945
In 1872 , the University of Leipzig built a residential and commercial building on a part of the site of the former Goethestrasse 2 College . Four years earlier, the New Theater had opened diagonally across the street on Augustusplatz . In order to have a quick and easy way from the city to the theater, the house was designed as a through-house , which was followed by a corridor to the Nikolaikirchhof or Ritterstraße 4. This corridor was vaulted with a glass roof and there were shops on its sides. This gave Leipzig its first passage , for which the name Theaterpassage was established from around 1880 . Hans Engler from Leipzig is assumed to be the architect.
After the neighboring properties had already been rebuilt, the house at Goethestrasse 2 was demolished at the end of the 1920s and the 43 m high reinforced concrete building of the Krochhochhaus was built in its place in 1927/1928 . The passage was integrated into the new building.
During the Second World War , the part behind the Krochhochhaus was destroyed. In the office and commercial building on the corner of Ritterstrasse and Grimmaische Strasse, which was built during the GDR era , this part of the Theaterpassage was also reborn, especially with a much-visited art and antiques shop with an attached gallery. In 2011 this building had to give way to a hotel opened in 2014, again while retaining the passage.
literature
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Theater passage . In: The Leipziger Passagen & Höfe. Architecture of European standing . Sax-Verlag Beucha • Markkleeberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86729-087-6 , pp. 34 and 137-139
Web links
- The theater passage. In: LVZ online, August 15, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Custody. Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
- ^ Hocquél: Die Leipziger Passagen & Höfe , p. 139
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 23.7 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 46.6" E