Vorlesung im Kolleg: Der Leipziger Promenadenring

In the organizer's words:

In the first decades of the 19th century, the course was set for Leipzig's transformation from an early modern burgher town to a modern metropolis. The Promenadenring, today the backbone of inner-city traffic, played a central role in this process. Its history exemplifies fundamental themes of urban planning, garden culture, but also architecture and the fine arts of the saddle period between the 18th and 19th centuries. Following the Seven Years' War, the Saxon king obtained permission to raze the city's bastioned fortifications and put the land thus gained to civilian use for the common good, and Leipzig's citizens seized the opportunity to gradually create a high-quality urban space, which promoted the opening of the city to its suburbs as well as the creation of cultural venues that are still important today. The lecture will present important stages and themes of this development, including the "Englische Anlage" (now the "Schwanenteichanlage" and green spaces in front of the main railway station), the early monuments of the Promenadenring and the creation of Augustusplatz and the representative streets of Schillerstrasse and Goethestrasse.

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