Herrmannsplatz in Erfurt
Shared past
Anyone looking for information about Herrmannsplatz will quickly come across attributes such as “the smallest” and “least important” of the former Erfurt market squares. On site we then see a square that hardly exists as such, as a street separates it into two parts.
Herrmannsplatz seems to offer little for today's Erfurt. So let's just approach it from the past.
Same place, different time: In 1879, the city's first indoor swimming pool opened on Herrmannsplatz. For many years it was the only one of its kind in Erfurt.
The fact that it did not open at the Roßmarkt is due to the renaming of the square four years earlier: When the Herrmannsbrunnen in 1875, the square at the Roßwehr became Herrmannsplatz. Which brings us to 1797. This is the birth year of Karl Herrmann, who later gave Herrmannsplatz its name.
He was a city councilor in Erfurt and a member of the Prussian United State Parliament in distant Berlin. Perhaps that is why he was committed to a rail connection for the city of Erfurt to the then emerging route network. He is also considered the founder of the city archives and liked to point out to the people of Erfurt that they live in a historic and beautiful city. What everyone knows today was not apparent to everyone back then. Reason enough to build a well for him after his death.
Today this is the most striking structure on Herrmannsplatz. looks at it from this perspective
notice : Here the builder Georg Kugel oriented himself on the shape of the nearby cathedral towers. Today the well is mostly dry. The splashing noise from the numerous water-spitting frogs and dragons
be a nice counterpart to the noise level generated by through traffic. And so we are back in the here and now, at Herrmannsplatz in Erfurt. Let's see what the future brings.