Thingplatz (Flensburg)

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The Flensburg Thingplatz was the place where the citizens gathered for the Allmannsthing or council until almost the end of the late Middle Ages . It can be found in downtown Flensburg .

history

The thing place until the end of the Middle Ages

Pedestrian zone at the former Thingplatz; on the right is the building Große Straße 1, where the old town hall later stood

Until the late Middle Ages , Flensburg managed without a town hall . Only about 2000 people lived in Flensburg in the Middle Ages and the citizens gathered for advice on the Flensburg Thingplatz , where the large parishes of St. Nikolai and St. Marien met and where, at the same time, roughly the center of the city was located. The parish of St. Johannis , located below St. Nikolai, and the parish of the Gertrudenviertel , located north of St. Marien, were smaller. The place in question was chosen with care. Neither side could claim that his neighborhood had been taken advantage of. The Thingplatz was therefore placed in the middle of the route between Südermarkt and Nordermarkt . Even then, the two markets were connected by a road link that corresponds to the course of today 's Holm and Große Straße .

The exact location of the square is apparently no longer known exactly these days. The Thingplatz is said to have been west of the street in today's area of ​​Grosse Strasse number 1 (today McDonald’s , Creditbank in the 1970s), up to the Flensburg City Theater above, but in the upper area of ​​the aforementioned area of ​​the City Theater The city ​​fortifications with the town hall gate were still in place in the Middle Ages . The Thingplatz was also bounded by the Rutebek , a stream that flowed down the slope immediately to the north . Today's Rathausstrasse did not exist either and the upper area of ​​today's Rathausstrasse apparently belonged to the said properties. The indicated full size of the thing place, apart from the number of people gathered, would have required the loudest and steady shouting of the respective speaker when fully utilized .

Duties and course of the meetings

According to old tradition, the town charter was read out in the open air on the Allmannsthing, the citizens' assembly. Important notices were also read out. The Allmannsthing also dealt with the urban expenses to be dealt with in the next few years, including the allocation that was necessary for the construction of the planned town hall. In addition, justice was pronounced in the presence of the mayor . The appointment of a city bailiff by the king or duke has probably existed since the beginning of the 11th century and is also mentioned in Flensburg's city charter from 1284. It was not until 1413 that the city received the right to elect the city bailiff himself.

Every now and then the citizens in the Middle Ages gathered probably on the Festplatz Exe , then councilor coupling or councilor gap called where then probably important legal statutes were adopted.

The town hall building on Thingplatz (Old Town Hall)

The rest of the Thingplatz area behind the Große Straße 1 building and the city theater now consists of parking spaces

When the number of citizens had grown to over 3000 at the end of the Middle Ages, the Allmannsthing decided to build a town hall in 1443. The site at Große Straße 1 was chosen as the location. Apparently, part of the Thingplatz was built over. The rest of the thing place was still used for judicial purposes. In this time you got by with a smaller thing place. The town hall building was completed in 1445. It was made of bricks and had a tiled roof. In the two-storey building there were servants' rooms and the council cellar on the ground floor, and a large town hall hall and a smaller room for the city council on the upper floor. The city armory was in the attic . In addition to deliberations by the council and some state parliaments, family celebrations also took place in the town hall hall, because the council rented the hall to its citizens. In addition, it was also used for theater performances by traveling actors, so that the function of the building was similar to the German House .

In 1766 the houses were given house numbers in Flensburg. You started with the numbering at the town hall and went north from there, whereby the main street at that time was not called Große Straße, but Herscopstrate . It was probably only given the name Große Straße at the beginning of the 19th century. Also in 1766 a new prison was built behind the town hall on the area of ​​Thingplatz, as it had become too narrow in the old one (it was located in another part of the city). A theater was built on November 17, 1795. It was located above the town hall, roughly where the successor building, the town theater, is today .

In 1853 the Bahnhofstrasse was laid out, which established a connection between the train station, where the central bus station is nowadays , and the town hall, thereby forming an intersection with the Holm and the Große Strasse. In 1861 the Bahnhofstrasse was renamed, it was given the name Rathausstrasse.

Relocation of the town hall

The town hall served its purpose until 1882. The growth of the economy and the population meant that a much larger administration was required. The old town hall was demolished in 1883 and Rathausstrasse, which had previously ended at the town hall, was extended upwards so that it reached its current course. Apparently the remaining buildings in the area were demolished along with the town hall, including the prison mentioned. During this time, the theater was replaced by the newly built city ​​theater that is still standing today . It was opened on September 23, 1894.

The city had acquired the government building on Holm No. 7, not particularly far from Thingplatz, and made it a provisional town hall in 1882 , because they wanted to build a new, much larger town hall. As was to be expected, the premises were soon no longer sufficient and the administration had to move into additional new premises in various parts of the city. For a long time, unsuccessful attempts had been made to save the sum for a new town hall.

In 1960 it was decided to build a town hall on the horse water, which would no longer be at Thingplatz and no longer in the city center, but above the Nikolaikirche. The temporary solution was sold to the Hertie group (today Karstadt ) and the proceeds were used to finance the new town hall , which could be moved into on May 21, 1964. The temporary structure, which had served as the town hall for over 80 years, was torn down and a department store was built on the site. The former wine and council cellar, now the Gnomenkeller , has been preserved from then .

Holdover

The center of the city of Flensburg , which was embedded in the floor of Große Straße in 1989, reminds of the central location of Thingplatz . Ms. Marianne Schreckenberger had the idea for the center. The aforementioned work of art was created by Dietmar Gördes and consists of Vanga granite and bronze . Since the center no longer corresponds to the geographical center and no longer corresponds to the political center, it is often called the historical center . The political center nowadays is on the site of today's town hall. The geographical center is constantly changing. In 2014 it was at the Käte-Lassen School in Flensburg , where the Flensburg transmitter was also located not far from the school until 1989 .

The name Rathausstrasse also reminds of the first town hall, which stood on Thingplatz. Some of the furnishings of the old town hall are also now in the town museum . Paintings from the old town hall now hang in the town hall of the new town hall. From the time of the provisional town hall, the aforementioned gnome cellar and the crown that had been on the gable of the building have been preserved. The crown hangs at the Museumsberg on the north side of the Heinrich Sauermann House above Rathausstrasse.

  • The historical center

  • The Town Hall road from Museumsberg seen from

  • The street sign of Rathausstrasse and Holmes

  • The crown of the gable of the government building that was later used as the second town hall

  • The city coat of arms in the former wine and council cellar, today's Gnomenkeller

  • The Karstadt building (formerly Hertie ) in the Christmas season 2012

Other thing places in the area

  • The Gallepol (gallows hill) was on Langberger Weg , which begins at the Friedenshügel cemetery in Flensburg and used to be much longer because it formed a path with the Unterlangberg road to the west in Handewitt . Besides executions, Thing also took place there.
  • The street Am Thingplatz exists in the neighboring Glücksburg because a Thingplatz is said to have been located there as well.
  • To the east of Flensburg, a long way away, is Dingholz , where the Nieharde's former Thingplatz was located.
  • South of Flensburg, also a long way away, in Eggebek's Thingplatz there is a maypole all year round .
  • To the south-east, already a long way from Flensburg, there is a reconstructed Thingplatz near Gulde near Stoltebüll

literature

  • Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972
  • Karl Weigand: Flensburg Atlas. The city of Flensburg in the German-Danish border region, past and present. Flensburg 1978 and supplement to the Flensburg Atlas, Flensburg 1986

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flensburg Atlas , Flensburg 1978, map No. 6 and supplement to the Flensburg Atlas , Flensburg 1986
  2. ↑ See address given in Creditbank's annual reports ; Retrieved April 3, 2014
  3. ↑ In the Creditbank era, the building at Rathausstrasse 20 also belonged to the Große Strasse 1 building.Cf. Photo in: Flensburg, Bild einer Stadt , Flensburg 1967, page 51
  4. ^ A b c d e Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 30
  5. ↑ a b Flensburg Atlas, Flensburg 1978, map no.8
  6. ↑ a b c d Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Rathausstraße
  7. ↑ a b Flensburg - history of a border town. Edited by the Society for Flensburg City History. Flensburg 1966, page 54
  8. ↑ See Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, 98
  9. ↑ a b Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Kleine Exe and Zur Exe
  10. ↑ See Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Exe
  11. ↑ Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 390
  12. ^ A b c d e Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 31
  13. ↑ A photo of the town hall with its two floors and its gable roof can be found in the following book, for example: Broder Schwensen : Flensburg as it used to be, walks through old Flensburg, Wartberg Verlag, 1995
  14. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: House number
  15. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Große Straße
  16. ^ Flensburg - history of a border town. Edited by the Society for Flensburg City History. Flensburg 1966, page 207
  17. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 399
  18. ^ A b Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, page 240
  19. ^ A b Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 405
  20. ↑ Cf. Flensburg - history of a border town. Edited by the Society for Flensburg City History. Flensburg 1966, pages 206 and 207
  21. ^ A b Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 32
  22. ↑ Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 402
  23. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Center
  24. ↑ Flensburg Journal : Flensburg Journal , number 136 from January 2014, page 47; Internet version accessed on April 5, 2014
  25. ↑ A second name that is present in the city, apparently reminiscent of the town hall and Thingplatz, is the Rats-Apotheke , Holm 13.
  26. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Rathaus
  27. ↑ See Weiche where else ( memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Edition: February 2014, page 12; Retrieved on: March 30, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.etsvweiche.de
  28. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Langberger Weg as well as here: AKVZ - TOP0931 - Handewith (accessed on: April 6, 2014) and definition: Hufe

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