Wartburgplatz (Bremen)

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Wartburgplatz
Warthburgplatz
Bremen coat of arms (middle) .svg
Place in Bremen
Wartburgplatz
Wartburgplatz with the sculpture group Waller Talks
Basic data
city Bremen
district Bremen-Walle
Created 1874
Confluent streets Wartburgstrasse, Sankt-Magnus-Strasse, Zwinglistrasse
use
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

Destroyed Walle; View to the southeast towards the center. The bunker Zwinglistrasse in the middle between Utbremer (left) and Wartburgstrasse
2006: Wartburgstrasse

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
Horse fountain

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

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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