Place Broglie

Description

Old place of the Market-with-Horses, where the old Town hall is, the place Broglie is a place located in the town of Strasbourg. It is located between the Place Kléber, principal place of the city, and the Place of the Republic (Strasbourg). It was named in the honor of the marshal François-Marie de Broglie, who reorganized it in 1740 when he was governor of Strasbourg. One can see there the national Opéra of the Rhine, a statue of François Christophe Kellermann and the hotel of the prefect. During the period of Christmas, the place is one of the places or one can admire the Christkindlmärik (the Marché of Christmas of Strasbourg).

One also finds on this place the statue in Bronze of the Maréchal Leclerc (the obelisk being in sandstone of the Vosges).

History

The French national anthem, the Marseilles , resounded for the first time in April 1792 on this place.

Indeed, the Marseillaise written by Rouget of Lisle to Strasbourg in the night of the 25 to the April 26th 1792 following the declaration of war to the emperor of Austria was presented the following day to the mayor of Strasbourg, the baron Philippe-Frederic DE DIETRICH (who had asked Rouget of Lisle in garrison in Strasbourg to write a battle song), in his residence located place Broglie (destroyed house replaced by the building of the Banque de France). This scene was immortalisée. One finds the table with the museum of Beautiful arts of Strasbourg. It there resounds for the first time and publicly resounds for the first time thereafter on the Broglie Place, in front of the Town hall of Strasbourg.

It is also since the town hall located Broglie place that on April 7th, 1947 the general De Gaulle pronounced in front of approximately fifty thousand people the Discours of Strasbourg, one of the speeches founders of the Republic, which mark also the creation of the Rassemblement of French people (RPF).

Tourism

Each year, at the time of the festivals of Christmas (of mid-November at the end of December), one finds Broglie place celebrates it Marché of Christmas of Strasbourg (called Christkindlmärik or gone of the Child-Jesus ) which organizes the city since 1570. During very a long time, the Christkindlmärik was held with the feet of the Cathedral (on the Square and the place of the Castle). Then, to the 19th century, taking an importance increasingly difficult to control, it was transferred initially on the Place Kléber, epicentre of the social life and economic of Strasbourg, then as of 1870 Broglie place.

The Christkindlmärik gathers hundreds of craftsmen, which propose inter alia local specialities culinary, such Bredle or Bredela, delicious small cakes that one traditionally prepares for the period of the Advent.

Remarkable buildings

The town hall of Strasbourg: built in 1730 for the last member of the Hanau-Licthenberg, in the style Regency, with the Frenchwoman. In 1728, Rene III of Hanau-Lichtenberg charged Joseph Massol, architect of the archbishop's palace, to build, with the site of the hotel which belonged to its family since the 16th century, a hotel between court and walk. The plan of the building is out of horseshoe, with a monumental entry on the side street. The frontage of the principal home, like the gate, is decorated trophies and will mascarons. The back frontage opens side of the Broglie place by a curved, in segmentary arc and rectangular bay alternation. The interior decoration, partially preserved, is raised contemporary parts of furniture of the hotel.

The national Opera of the Rhine: the municipal theater is built in 1820, in a neo-classic style with a frontage decorated with a colossal peristyle with columns ionic and surmounted by six Muses (and not nine like wants it the tradition). It is called Opéra of the Rhine (and since 1997 Opéra National). On the place, near the southern frontage of the Opera, part of the old municipal Granary remains going back to the 15th century.

The Fountain of Janus: located at the north-eastern end of the Broglie place, vis-a-vis the national Opera of the Rhine, the Fountain of Janus was carried out by the draftsman and illustrator Tomi Ungerer at the time of the 2000 years celebration of the city in 1988.

The Mess of the officers (in the past a convent of Clarisses).

The Blanckenburg House located at the angle of the street of the Titmouse and the blue Cloud, built in the purest style Art nouveau with its oriel of angle and its ironwork oneiric.

The Hotel of the Prefect: also called hotel of Kinglin (of the name of the silent partner). The royal lender François-Joseph de Klinglin adapted a municipal ground to make there build between 1731 and 1736 a sumptuous hotel, in pink sandstone, whose principal frontage gives on the ditch of the False-Rampart. After its fire during the war of 1870, the hotel was rebuilt appreciably with the identical one. Allotted to the architect of the city Jean-Pierre Pflug, of origin and formation franconiennes, its plan between court and garden and its rises translate a mixture of French designs and traditions local and Germanic. At the ground floor, visits office of the prefect and living rooms (rooms Louise Weiss and Gustave Doré) and on the 1st floor, dining rooms, central living room, room of the emperor with his dependences. He is the hotel of the Prefect today.

Bonds

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