The name hühnermarkt refers to the square that can be seen at the southern end of neugasse. This square was once called vrithof (probably from vriten, fenced) and vreithof, the origin and meaning of which have been the subject of much debate. It was later called hühnermarkt because the chicken and poultry market was actually held here until the middle of the last century. There was an interesting fountain on the square, but it later gave way to another, the so-called freiheitsbrunnen, because a figure with a liberty cap was placed on it due to a misunderstanding. This fountain has been moved to the square by the archives, and the stoltze monument by sculptor schierholz now stands in the form of a fountain on the hühnermarkt. In the past, the butter scales were also set up on the hühnermarkt. Of the houses that surround the square, the corner house on the street "hinter dem lämmchen" and neugasse, the current andreae's house, in which aunt melber, known from goethe's time, lived, and the house "zum schildknecht", later also called st. Marcus or "schuhhaus", should be mentioned. The latter is the house that occupies the right corner of the square and bears the number 18. For a time it was the shoemakers' guild room and st. Marcus was depicted life-size on the house. Date: 1903. Dimensions: reproduction: height: 15.9 cm (6.2 in); width: 21.3 cm (8.4 in), original: unknown. Medium: collotype print. Collection: Private collection Mylius.
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