Bohlenplatz
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The Bohlenplatz is a town square in the city of Erlangen. Known as a recreation place downtown for its green area, and the venue of the most famous and traditional Erlanger flea market and because of the German former church, which is now used under the name Erlanger's Kreuz + Quer – House of the church as an event site for the Evangelical Lutheran deanary of Erlanger.
History
Originally, today's Bohlenplatz was simply described as the place of the German Reformed Church. In the 19th century, the name Polenplatz was established for this square as well as the adjacent eastern block. In 1872 the name was changed to Bohlenplatz. Hence the reference to the social environment of the residents and their "Polish" confused reinterpretation of a building yard used by carpenters. From 1933 to 1945, the square was named after the anti-Semitic journalist and publisher Dietrich Eckart.<ref name="Stadtlexikon"> . The originally poor, single-storey houses of the stocking makers and craftsmen were increased or rebuilt over the course of time. The site was also initially used for scree or as a sand pit. From 1780, however, attempts were made to counteract this by repeatedly planting trees, for example when mulberry trees were planted for sericulture in 1826. . It was not until 1887 that a uniform overall design which approximately corresponded to the character of the present square, was carried out for the first time. The last major redesign took place in 1982..[1].
In the course of history, there have also been several projects that were never realized on Bohlenplatz: the Erlangen station was planned to be built here in 1836.
In 1910 it was submitted to build a Lido at Bohlenplatz. Furthermore, several times it was planned to, at least partially, overbuild the eastern half of the square, which only happened with the establishment of the new Building Office of the University in 1970. At the time of National Socialism, an enormous war memorial was planned, but it never came to fruition.
A 222 metre deep artesian well on the south-east corner of the Bohlenplatz, which was built between 1864 and 1869, did not supply the desired quantities of water and was therefore barred in 1945. In 1919, the city built one of the first two children's playgrounds in Erlangen on the Bohlenplatz; there is still a children's playground on the Bohlenplatz today.
Description
The Bohlenplatz is an approximately 200 meter long and 80 meter wide square in the historical old town of Erlangen, arranged in a west-east direction. Although it was not built until later, it fits perfectly into the pattern of Erlangen's New Town as a Baroque planned city. The extensive square is tangent to the south by the Friedrichstraße-Luitpoldstraße street, to the north by the Obere Karlstraße-Marquardsenstraße street and to the east by the Östliche Stadtmauerstraßee-Waldstraße street. Raumerstraße also starts to the south. A footpath and cycle path in the "Flucht Krankenhausstraße-Holzgartenstraße" divide the square into two unequal parts. The western third is occupied by the former German-Reformed Church. The eastern part is leafy and park-like. There is also a children's playground. The eastern end of the square is marked by the new building of the University Authority from 1970. [1]
Adjacent buildings
Former German reformed chirch
Literature
- Christoph Friedrich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nürnberg 2002, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 (Gesamtausgabe online).
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