New Aberdeen

Aberdeen's Mercat Cross

New Aberdeen is a neighbourhood in Aberdeen, Scotland.

A Royal Burgh was established by the reign of David I in the middle of the twelfth century with Alexander II establishing a Guild of Merchants in New Aberdeen in 1222.[1] It was a fishing and trading settlement where the river Denburn entered the Dee estuary.[2] The burgh of New Aberdeen was merged with Old Aberdeen in 1891 to form the county of the city of Aberdeen.[2]

The area has some of the oldest streets in Aberdeen dating from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in New Aberdeen's historic marketplace the Castlegate where Aberdeen's Mercat cross is situated.[2]

Statue of king Robert the Bruce in front of Marischal College.

Marischal College was founded in 1593 on the site of a disused medieval Franciscan friary by George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal of Scotland as a more Protestant alternative to Old Aberdeen's King's College. It was Scotland's second post-medieval "civic university", after the University of Edinburgh, created without a Papal bull and with a greater resemblance to the Protestant arts colleges of continental Europe[3] to train post-Reformation Kirk clergy.[4] and became known as Aberdeen's "Town College".

  1. ^ "New Aberdeen". The Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Aberdeen". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. pp. 27–28. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
  3. ^ Steven John Reid (2007). "Aberdeen's 'Toun College': Marischal College, 1593–1623". The Innes Review. 58 (2): 173–195. doi:10.3366/E0020157X07000054. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  4. ^ "University Charter". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 11 (2): 145–158. JSTOR 530957.