Weißgerbergasse (Nuremberg)

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Weißgerbergasse in Nuremberg
The Weißgerbergasse in Nuremberg, view in north-east direction
The Weißgerbergasse in Nuremberg, looking west

The Weißgerbergasse is a street in Nuremberg . It is one of the few preserved architectural ensembles in Nuremberg's old town . It is lined with bars, restaurants and galleries.

The Weißgerbergasse is located in the Nuremberg district 0 - 06 in the Sebald old town north of the Pegnitz . It leads from Maxplatz , located in the south near Pegnitz, first northeast, then east towards Sebalduskirche to the Weinmarkt. To the north, the Geiersberg and Irrerstraße run parallel to Weißgerbergasse. The Irrerstrasse begins at the Weinmarkt. The south side of the corner house Irrerstraße 1 is on Weißgerbergasse.

history

House Weißgerbergasse 8
House at Weißgerbergasse 2a

About twenty medieval half-timbered houses in Weißgerbergasse survived the heavy air raids on Nuremberg . The Weißgerbergasse therefore reflects a piece of historical Nuremberg, in particular an old craftsmen's quarter within the Burgviertel . The name of the street comes from the White tanners , which in the Middle Ages were established there and, unlike the Rotgerbern using alum , salt, flour, eggs and tree oil raw hides to fine, golden leather, the so-called white leather, processed Since the tanning The animal hides used a lot of water at that time and also represented a not inconsiderable odor nuisance, it is not by chance that almost all of the craft houses had a private well and were located at the exit of the village near the draining Pegnitz.

In addition to Irrerstraße, the “Irrertürlein”, a former pedestrian passage in the Neutormauer west of Maxplatz, is also worth mentioning. The “Irrertürlein” and the Irrerstraße were named after the “Irrern” (= white tanners) who lived around the Weißgerbergasse and the Irrerstraße.

In 1837 residents of Weißgerbergasse applied to rename it Hallertorgasse, as the profession was no longer based here. But the government of the Rezatkreis (Middle Franconia) rejected the request with reference to the historical significance of the street name as a testimony to previous residents.

It is thanks to the Nuremberg old town friends and the house owners that most of the houses have been lovingly renovated and that you can get a glimpse of what old Nuremberg once looked like. At the houses at Weißgerbergasse 16 and 25 you can even find two of the Nuremberg Chörlein, i. H. Bay windows on the house facade, which loosened up the strict image of the Nuremberg house facades. They also served to observe what was happening on the street.

In the years around 1970 the half-timbered structure in Weißgerbergasse was still under plaster. Therefore, the old friends of the houses Weißgerbergasse No. 23, 26, 30 and 35. But the half-timbered excavations of the old town friends through the alley into a showcase street involved and motivating, planning and financing of the renovation of half-timbered facades and dormer windows. 21, tourist attraction was, were not only welcomed, but also criticized. Therefore, City Planning Director i. R. Julius Lincke (1909–1991), an advisor to Altstadtfreunde, on the occasion of the European Monument Protection Year 1975 and later also Erich Mulzer , the chairman of Altstadtfreunde Nürnberg eV, commented on this in Nuremberg's old town reports.

In 1997 the friends of the old town bought the corner house Irrerstraße 1 at the entrance to Weißgerbergasse, which also forms the western boundary of the Weinmarkt square, and restored it. The interior work has not yet been completed. The old town friends also bought the historic former tanner's house at Weißgerbergasse 10 in 2000 and renovated it as the “Erich Mulzer House” at a cost of 1.5 million euros. The carpentry work is still going on inside. At the end of 2006, friends of the old town were able to set up the roof bay on Weißgerbergasse 8. In the meantime it has been covered, plastered and colored.

Today, the Weißgerbergasse mainly houses apartments, many small bars and pubs and various businesses such as hairdressers, goldsmiths, art galleries, book clinics and cosmetic studios.

Weißgerbergasse is part of the “ Nuremberg Historic Mile ”.

Traffic situation

As recently as the 1970s, the exhaust fumes from car traffic and the sewer cars that emptied the lavatory pits in some backyards on a weekly basis contaminated the air so that the windows had to remain closed during the day. Today the Weißgerbergasse is a pedestrian zone and connected to the sewer system .

The Weißgerbergasse has good transport connections to the local public transport of the transport association in the greater Nuremberg area (VGN) thanks to the tram stop at Hallertor and the bus stop in Weintraubengasse . The subway at Plärrer can therefore be reached quickly.

Attractions

Erich Mulzer wrote about the Weißgerbergasse ensemble and its sights: “With 22 old houses, Weißgerbergasse is the best preserved street in today's old town. In contrast to the Füll, narrower and mostly half-timbered houses predominate here. Despite the street width and height of the houses being roughly the same as in the Füll, the result is a much more lively and colorful picture - characteristic of the artisan alleys of the old city, in which there was always a variety of active life. Works of art, on the other hand, take a back seat in the overall impression: there is only a single old choir here (at no. 25), and the roof bay windows are mostly unadorned. Instead, typical for craftsmen's houses are the white tanner emblem from 1708 and the locksmith's mark from around 1820 (both at No. 24) as well as the small Biedermeier door with carved fruit cornucopia (No. 28). The corner figure of St. Egidius with the Hind (No. 26) is a copy of a similar, destroyed half-timbered house elsewhere. Some charming and picturesque courtyards (nos. 19, 21, 23 and 35) are not open to the general public. This also applies to an impressive baroque garden room with rich stucco (in the passage behind the driveway next to No. 27). "

A Nuremberg town house usually comprised the front building, narrow side wings, courtyard and rear building . The courtyard with a fountain , stair tower, elevator bay window and sometimes a small garden was often the center of everyday life. At least the side wing had open galleries (called "corridors") on all floors as a connection between the front and rear buildings. Often these galleries moved around the courtyard on two or three sides or on all sides. The decorative architecture of the galleries was a Nuremberg mixed style consisting of Gothic tracery in the parapets and later Renaissance columns and baroque consoles . The form with baluster ('docking') parapets made of wood can be found in Weißgerbergasse 23, which is more in keeping with the Renaissance .

Visits to some courtyards are possible every now and then on the occasion of the old town walks organized by the old town friends and on the day of the open monument . The friends of the old town also organize guided tours through their own houses, even during the archaeological research work.

literature

  • Julius Lincke: Thoughts on the half-timbered exposures of the old town friends in the monument protection year 1975 . In: Nuremberg Old Town Reports. Ed .: Altstadtfreunde Nürnberg eV, No. 1, 1976, pp. 39–44
  • Erich Mulzer : The destruction of Nuremberg's old town in the air war. In: Nuremberg Old Town Reports. No. 4, 1979, pp. 45-74
  • Erich Mulzer: Are friends of the old town exposing too much timber? In: Nuremberg Old Town Reports. No. 7, 1982, pp. 75-88
  • Erich Mulzer: The Nuremberg style in architecture . In: Nuremberg Old Town Reports. No. 10, 1985, pp. 27-56
  • Wiltrud Fischer-Pache: Weißgerbergasse . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 1170 ( online ).
  • Erich Mulzer: Gerber and tanner houses in Nuremberg. In: Nuremberg Old Town Reports. No. 27, 2002, pp. 37-76
  • John Patrick Zeitler: The excavations in Weißgerbergasse 10: A new picture from Nuremberg's underground . In: Nuremberg Old Town Reports. No. 28, 2003, pp. 81–92 (The author is the Nuremberg city archaeologist)

Web links

Commons : Weißgerbergasse (Nürnberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Helge Weingärtner: Mad door . S. 480 .
  2. ^ Wiltrud Fischer-Pache: Weißgerbergasse . S. 1170 .
  3. ↑ Erich Mulzer : Altstadthöfe . S. 67 .
  • Other sources
  1. ↑ Erich Mulzer : The Nuremberg half-timbered building . In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg (MVGN), Volume 55 (1967/68), pages 300–331
  2. ^ Press and Information Office of the City of Nuremberg: Air War and Destruction in Nuremberg ( Memento from September 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Paul Koelner: Weissgerber . In: The saffron guild in Basel and their crafts and trades ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ leather . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 607–610.
  5. ↑ H. Hedayati: Chörlein. A stroll in the old town of Nuremberg.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. July 2004 (updated 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.seniorennetz-erlangen.de  
  6. ↑ Completed construction projects of the Nürnberger Altstadtfreunde - PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / altstadtfreunde-nuernberg.de  
  7. ↑ Erich Mulzer: Six decades of work for the old town. In memory of Julius Lincke. In: Nürnberger Altstadtberichte No. 17, 1992, pp. 93–96
  8. ↑ House Irrerstraße 1 - the former Irrerbad ( memento from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ 'Erich-Mulzer-Haus' planned. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten of January 19, 2006 ( Memento of December 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Carlo Jahn, Art and Culture Pedagogical Center of the Museums in Nuremberg (KPZ): Historical Mile Nuremberg ( Memento from March 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ City map with Weißgerbergasse, tram stop at Hallertor and bus stop Weintraubengasse
  12. ↑ Erich Mulzer: The castle district . In: Erich Mulzer: Baedeker Nuremberg - City Guide , 9th edition. By Karl Baedeker. Ostfildern-Kemnat: Baedeker, 2000, 134 pages, ISBN 3-87954-024-1

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '18.7 "  N , 11 ° 4' 22.9"  E