 Leipzig Burgplatz Panorama (2008) with the new town hall on the left and the Stadthaus on the right | |
| Location | Leipzig-Mitte, Leipzig, Germany |
|---|---|
| Postal code | 04109 |
| Coordinates | 51°20′13″N12°22′23″E / 51.33694°N 12.37306°E |
The Burgplatz (in English Castle square) is an approximately rectangular square of just over 2,000 square metres (22,000 square feet) in the southwest of the city center of Leipzig, Germany.
The Burgplatz was created around 1900 on parts of the Pleissenburg site when it was demolished in 1897 to make room for the New Town Hall. The town hall was deliberately built a little out of town to create a new town square. The Burgplatz, whose name refers to the Pleissenburg, is the youngest of the inner-city squares. The Rathausbrunnen (Town hall fountain) by Georg Wrba was inaugurated on the square near the New Town Hall in 1908.
By the bombing of Leipzig in World War II, the square's entire peripheral development was destroyed or severely damaged. After clearing work, the castle square was only bordered by the town hall and the connected Stadthaus, the remaining structural enclosure was missing. It was used as a parking lot during the GDR era. There were also makeshift sales stalls on the extensive war gap, which stretched eastwards to Petersstrasse.
After the German reunification, the rededication into an urban square began; the peripheral development was supplemented by new buildings, some of which are based on the character of the original building structure.
The New Town Hall closes off the square to the south and southwest, and the Stadthaus is to the west. Both buildings serve the city administration and are connected to each other by a two-story “bridge”.
The new building of the Bauwens House has been the end of the square to the north since 1994. [1] The “Teiche House” previously stood on this site and was damaged in the war and later demolished. In the southeast there is an extension that was also added to the Deutsche Bank building in the 1990s with a tower-like risalit ; it takes up the eaves height of the remaining part of the building, but is otherwise modern in design.
To the east, at the site of the Hirzel House, which was destroyed in the war, there had been a cordoned-off open excavation pit for over twenty years since the mid-1990s, which was named Burgplatzloch (Burgplatz hole). It was created in 1995 during the construction of an underground parking garage for the western end of the Petersbogen structure, which was built between 1999 and 2001. The infill redevelopment did not take place despite several changes of ownership. It was only in 2017 that the construction of the building called Burgplatz Passage, which lasted until 2019, began according to the plans of the HPP architectural firm [2] with the facade design by the Berlin architectural firm Christoph Kohl Stadtplaner Architekten CKSA. [3] In addition to a passage to the Petersbogen, an arcade gallery, and shops and restaurants on the ground floor, it includes a hotel belonging to the NH Hotel Group on the upper floors. The facade, covered with Cotta Sandstone, contains six life-size figures with reference to the Leipzig Debate of 1519, which took place in the Pleissenburg castle opposite. [4]
In 1995 an underground car park [5] was built under the square. During the work, the foundation walls of the Pleissenburg were uncovered and examined archaeologically. The new paving reproduces the outline of the walls with darker stones.
The Leipzig Trade Fair is a major trade fair, which traces its roots back for nearly a millennium. After the Second World War, Leipzig fell within the territory of East Germany, whereupon the Leipzig Trade Fair became one of the most important trade fairs of Comecon and was traditionally a meeting place for businessmen and politicians from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Since 1996, the fair has taken place on the Leipzig fairgrounds, located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of the city centre.
The Städtisches Kaufhaus in Leipzig, designed by the municipal architects Rayher, Korber and Müller in the style of Baroque Revival architecture, was constructed from 1894 to 1901.
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The Pleissenburg was a historical building in the city of Leipzig in Saxony which is in modern-day Germany. It was built in the 13th century by the Margrave Dietrick and named after the river Pleisse which runs nearby. Martin Luther gave the first evangelical sermon in the castle chapel on Pentecost Sunday in 1539.
The Brühl is a street in the centre of Leipzig, Germany, just within the former city wall. Until the 1930s, it was the international centre of fur trade.
The fountains in Leipzig were originally built as part of the city's water supply and in the 19th and 20th centuries others were added for decorative functions. They are regarded as objects of historical and art historical interest.
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Mühlendamm is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It runs from the historic Cölln and Fischerinsel quarters to the Molkenmarkt square of Alt-Berlin via the Mühlendammbrücke crossing the Spree river. Named after several watermills at the site, a historic causeway was first laid out at this location about 1200 and became the nucleus of the late medieval city foundation. The current prestressed concrete bridge was built in 1968. It is part of an east–west road link to Berlin's city centre and the Bundesstraße 1 highway.
Altes Stadthaus is a former administrative building in Berlin, Germany, currently used by the Senate. It faces the Molkenmarkt and is bound by four roads; Jüdenstraße, Klosterstraße, Parochialstraße, and Stralauer Straße. Designed by Ludwig Hoffmann, chief of construction for the city, it was built in 1902–11 at a cost of 7 million marks (US$1,750,000) to supplement the Rotes Rathaus.
Georg Wrba was a German sculptor and graphic artist. He created some 3,000–4,000 works, including as a collaborator of the Zwinger workshop.
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Richard-Wagner-Platz is a square in Leipzig in the northwest of Leipzig city centre within Leipzig's "ring road" on the northwest corner. The square is named after the composer Richard Wagner, whose house of birth was nearby.
Alte Messe Leipzig is the circa 50 hectares site in the southeastern part of Leipzig's district Mitte, where from 1920 until 1991 the technical exhibitions of the Leipzig Trade Fair took place, as well as the buildings that stand on it – but not the trade fair itself, which found a new home at a new site in the northern part of Leipzig. Since 1996 there has been no trade fair activity on the old site.
The Old Town Hall, which dominates the east side of the Markt square in Leipzig's district Mitte, is considered one of Germany's most important secular Renaissance buildings. At the rear is the Naschmarkt. The mayor and the municipal administration have been housed in the New Town Hall since 1905.
Hieronymus Lotter was a merchant and several times mayor of Leipzig, construction manager for important sovereign building projects in Saxony and the driving force behind extensive building measures by the municipal council in Leipzig. Lotter was the Master builder of Maurice, Elector of Saxony, under the direction of the principal toolmaster and master builder Caspar Vogt von Wierandt. According to earlier research, he was considered an important architect of the Renaissance; today its role is seen in a more differentiated way and above all its organizational function is emphasized.
Leipzig-Mitte is one of ten boroughs (Stadtbezirke) of Leipzig, located in the center of the city. It includes numerous architectural monuments. Most of them are located in the subdivision "Zentrum", which is sited inside the Inner City Ring Road and the Promenadenring:
The Promenadenring Leipzig is the oldest municipal landscape park in Germany and one of the most important garden and cultural monuments in the city. The term is also used as a synonym for Leipzig's inner city ring road, a traffic facility that is connected to the green spaces of the Promenadenring. Like the inner city ring road, the promenade ring is about 3.6 kilometers long (2.24 mi.).
The Markt is a square of about 1 ha in Leipzig's district of Mitte, Germany. It is considered the center of the city. The Old Town Hall stands on it, which demonstrates its particular historical importance. The square was named Platz des Friedens from 1950 to 1954. Its paving is a listed heritage monument.
Barthels Hof is a former trade court building complex in Leipzig in Germany, located in the borough Mitte. It is the last “through courtyard” that was preserved almost in its original condition. That means, the carts drove in, the goods were unloaded, and the carts drove out - without turning around. The horses were stabled in the suburbs. Later, from 1893 on, only samples of the goods were shown in the trade fairs and made to order. The Barthels Hof stretches from the market square to Kleine Fleischergasse and is now one of the city's most important sights. Today, it is used for a restaurant and some small shops.
The Mädler Arcade Gallery is the last completely preserved historic shopping arcade covered by an end-to-end glass roof in the city center of Leipzig. It is a facility of upmarket retail, restaurants, offices and cultural establishments.
