Wartburgplatz (Bremen)
Wartburgplatz Warthburgplatz |
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Place in Bremen | |
Wartburgplatz with the sculpture group Waller Talks |
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Basic data | |
city | Bremen |
district | Bremen-Walle |
Created | 1874 |
Confluent streets | Wartburgstrasse, Sankt-Magnus-Strasse, Zwinglistrasse |
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User groups | Road traffic, tram, pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic |
The Wartburgplatz (also Warthburgplatz ) is a small square in Bremen in the Walle district, Westend district .
history
The Waller district Westend developed with the construction of the free port . In 1874 the Wartburgstrasse and the square were laid out. During the Second World War , Walle, and so also Westend, was totally destroyed and rebuilt in the 1950s. The Westend currently has 6,625 inhabitants (2009).
Names
The square bears the name of the Wartburg in Eisenach in memory of the reformer Martin Luther , who worked at the castle in 1521/22. In 1522 the Augustinian monk Heinrich von Zütphen gave the first Reformation sermon in Bremen . From 1524 Protestant preachers were also appointed to the parish churches in Bremen. In 1525 Catholic masses were banned in Bremen. In 1534 a church order approved by Luther was introduced. In the imperial city of Bremen, the Protestant Reformed theological direction prevailed from 1581 ( see also Bremen Church History ).
Streets in the square
The streets on the square were named as
- Wartburgstrasse (see above),
- Sankt-Magnus-Straße after one of the saints of the same name,
- Zwinglistraße from 1873 after Ulrich Zwingli , the first Zurich reformer.
Buildings at the square
- four-tier Office building with the Sparkasse Bremen - Walle branch
- dreigesch. Residential and commercial buildings on Wartburgstrasse
- dreigesch. Residential and commercial buildings on Sankt-Magnus-Strasse
- Zweigesch. Residential houses on Zwinglistraße
Art objects
- Sculpture group Waller Talks from 1981 with six bronze half-figures on concrete bases, three figures each by Bernd Altenstein and three by Jan Irps.
- Horse Fountain III made of bronze, brass and copper from 1975; Designed by Gerhard Lange from 1898.
traffic
The tram lines pass through local transport in Bremen
- 2 ( Gröpelingen - Domsheide - Sebaldsbrück ) and
- 10 (Gröpelingen - Hauptbahnhof - Sebaldsbrück) the square with a stop at the square.
swell
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ A concrete assignment to one of the 30 holy namesake is not possible, see Gerhard Schmolze: Sankt-Magnus-Verehrung in Bremen in the 14th and 15th centuries . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . tape 67 , 1989, pp. 29–53 ( suub.uni-bremen.de [accessed on October 3, 2018]).
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 35.5 " N , 8 ° 47 ′ 22.3" E