Richard-Wagner-Platz (Leipzig)
Location | Leipzig-Mitte, Leipzig, Germany |
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Postal code | 04109 |
Coordinates | 51°20′35.98″N 12°22′20.02″E / 51.3433278°N 12.3722278°E |
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.
New design since 2013
From April 2012 to May 2013, the 7,200 m2 (78,000 sq ft) large Richard-Wagner-Platz, which was then used as a parking lot, was redesigned after a design competition at a cost of 2.6 million euros. It was presented to the public on the eve of Wagner's 200th birthday. On the same occasion, the Leipzig Richard Wagner Memorial was unveiled about 150 m (490 ft) southwest of Richard-Wagner-Platz in the green area at Goerdelerring.
Since that redesigning,
History
On the site of today's Richard-Wagner-Platz, the first Slavic market (later called Eselsmarkt, which means donkey market) and the Slavic settlement of Lipsk, from which the city of Leipzig later developed, were probably formed in the 7th century.[2] This market place is older than today's Leipzig's market square. In the 10th century, the place lay at the crossing of the Via Regia coming from Merseburg and leading further to Meissen to the Via Imperii, an imperial road, later Hainstraße. At the southern end of the eastern side of the square begins the Brühl, an old street which later became the world center for fur trade practised by mostly jewish merchants. The Hainstraße ends at the corner of Brühl. South of it begins the Große Fleischergasse, which is why the square was formerly called Fleischerplatz.[3]
At the western end of the southwest side the Töpferstraße began. Until 1822 the square was bordered to the north and west by the Ranstädter Gate. It was one of the four city gates of Leipzig and formed the city exit to the west. With the demolition of the
The
On 22 May 1913, the 100th birthday of composer and conductor Richard Wagner, born in Brühl 1, Theaterplatz was renamed Richard-Wagner-Platz. Wagner's birthplace was on the corner of Brühl/Theaterplatz. It was demolished in 1886 and the Brühl department store was later built on this site.
During the
On 24 August 1973, a
The square is separated in its irregular form from the Goerdelerring and the Tröndlinring in the northwest by a narrow green area. Inside is the Hahneman Monument. The neo-classical building Großer Blumenberg borders the square to the south. The Brühl, the Hainstraße and the Große Fleischergasse border the square in the southeast.
Present age
Due to the fact that the square was regularly the venue for meetings of the Leipzig
Gallery
References
- ^ "Urban lighting project "Richard-Wagner-Platz" / Beleuchtungsprojekt "Richard-Wagner-Platz" (PDF). leipzig.de (in English and German). City of Leipzig. 2014. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ISBN 3-930076-61-6.
- ^ Richard-Wagner-Platz im Leipzig-Lexikon
- ^ Altes Theater bei Leipziger Notenspur
- ^ Leipziger Verkehrbetriebe, ed. (1996). Vom Zweispänner zur Stadtbahn. Die Geschichte der Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe und ihrer Vorgänger (in German). Leipzig. p. 210.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Leipzigs Grüne unterstützen Initiative für "Refugees-Welcome-Platz"". LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-28.
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