Zanggasse

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The Zanggasse in Mainz old town. The Boniface Towers can be seen in the background .

The Zanggasse is a city road in Mainz-Altstadt . It is 250 meters long and is located in the Bleichenviertel east of Kaiserstraße . Today the street is considered a monument zone .

history

The western part of the street was built from 1885 to 1897. The first name of the street was "Knobsgasse". The oldest part of the street is the narrower part that branches off from the Großer Bleiche and extends to the Mittlere Bleiche. These houses were mostly built in the Baroque style. The western part of the Kaiserstrasse is wider and longer than the eastern part. It was built as part of the construction of the Mainz Neustadt . In the beginning, shops and stores were set up on the ground floors. Apartments were set up on the upper floors.

The buildings in the eastern part of Zanggasse in particular were damaged by the First and Second World Wars . Today the corner houses Hintere Bleiche 23 and Zanggasse 9A are still preserved, which were built from 1897 according to plans by Franz Suder and from 1888 according to plans by the architect Peter Gustav Rühl . In addition, the building at Zanggasse 36, which was also built according to plans by Suder from 1887, was retained. The buildings Zanggasse 24A and 26 built by the construction company Hornlehnert & Schreyer in 1892 as well as the houses at Zanggasse 28, 30 and 32/24, which were built according to C. Schumacher from 1885, are also without war damage that is still visible today. A shop was built on the ground floor in Zanggasse 32 in 1894, and a shop was integrated into its neighboring building, Zanggasse 34, on the ground floor in 1929.

The Zanggasse used to be the starting point for drug trafficking . Today it is in a trendy area .

architecture

The facades of the houses at Zanggasse 34 and 32

The Zanggasse connects the Kaiserstraße with the Große Bleiche. The eastern part of the street is narrower as it is the oldest part of Zanggasse. Today, many houses that were built in the 19th century are still in almost their original condition. While the facades are architecturally less conspicuous, the narrowness and the same building structure is a special feature of the street. All structures are eaves and have three floors. In the newer part, the houses also have a fourth attic. The facades are decorated with elements from the neo-renaissance . Apart from balconies, none of the buildings have any extensions such as bay windows and sill facing the street. This is what distinguishes the buildings in Zanggasse from the structures in Mainz Neustadt. This type of construction is due to the fact that the road is very narrow.

Like the buildings in Mainz Neustadt, many houses have ornate gables , crowned windows and pilasters , which usually extend over several floors. Zanggasse 24A and 26 buildings have lightly decorated window frames. In the middle of the same sequence of houses in Zanggasse, the corner house Hintere Bleiche 23 is an exception: It stands out from the other buildings through the other window groups, the facades and stripes of ridge work . In addition, volutes can now be seen as decorations above the windows on the first and second floors. Due to the narrow and shortness of the street and the modesty of the apartments, the Zanggasse represents a striking contrast to the large and representative Kaiserstraße. While in the 19th century mainly upper class citizens lived in Kaiserstraße , Zanggasse was built for craftsmen and less important merchants and business people .

See also

literature

  • Angela Schumacher, Ewald Wegner (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.1: City of Mainz. City expansions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-590-31032-4 , pp. 116-117.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Directory of cultural monuments District-Free City of Mainz (PDF; 1.6 MB) on denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Angela Schumacher, Ewald Wegner (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.1: City of Mainz. City expansions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986: pp. 116-117. ISBN 3-590-31032-4
  3. ↑ Mainz, drug controls in the city center ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Rhineland-Palatinate police of September 13, 2005  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.polizei.rlp.de
  4. ↑ a b Zanggasse: True beauty comes from within in the sensor magazine of December 28, 2011
  5. ↑ Fight against the Mainz drug milieu! on the GIGA website of May 30, 2005
  6. ↑ Mainz with a difference on the website of the Rhein Main Presse by Jelena Pecic from April 11, 2012

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 50.4 ″  E