Theaterplatz (Chemnitz)
| Theater square | |
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 Theater square at night |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Chemnitz |
| District | center |
| Created | 19th century |
| Newly designed | 1990 |
| Confluent streets | Road of Nations |
| Buildings | King Albert Museum , Opera House , St. Petrikirche , Hotel Chemnitzer Hof |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport , underground parking |
The Theaterplatz in Chemnitz is located on the Strasse der Nations near the main train station . It is surrounded by the King Albert Museum , the opera house and St. Petrikirche as well as the Hotel Chemnitzer Hof . It got its name when the opera house was still called the New City Theater .
history
The communal Anger or Kuhanger , where the cows grazed, was once located on the current site of the Theaterplatz . At the beginning of the 19th century, part of this Angers was built on. The stock spinning mill, train station facilities and villas were built. Residential blocks were built along the Brühl and behind the Brückenstraße. This is how the Chemnitz Neustadt came into being.
The central part of the Angers remained undeveloped. Cattle and annual markets were held on it, for which the marketplaces in the old town offered no space. A park was laid out in front of the stock spinning mill in the mid-19th century and named after him on the occasion of Friedrich Schiller's 100th birthday in 1859; the part of Schillerplatz facing the city remained undeveloped. This part was called the Neustädter Markt .
At the end of the 19th century, the Petrikirche was the first building to be built on this site. Around 1900 building sites for a museum and a city theater were sought (the space was literally an option). Since the square bordered on the Königsstraße (today Straße der Nations), it was called Königsplatz . After the November Revolution (in the course of street renaming) it was called Theaterplatz , and although the theater became an opera house after 1925, the name remained. From 1933 to 1945 the square was called Adolf-Hitler-Platz , from 1945 it was again called Theaterplatz. After 1990 an underground car park was built under the square, with a Theatron adjoining the Strasse der Nations as an entrance.
literature
- Stefan Weber: From the Anger to the Theaterplatz. 100 years of Theaterplatz. How the site got its name.
- Tilo Richter: The Theaterplatz. Past and present in the middle of Chemnitz. Published by the Association Sakralbau Petri eV and the Evangelical Forum Chemnitz, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-57-X .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 12 ° 55 ′ 30.5 ″ E