New Aberdeen

{{Short description|Neighbourhood in Aberdeen, Scotland}}

File:Aberdeen Market Cross.jpg]]

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.{{cite web |url= https://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst9438.html|title= New Aberdeen|website=The Gazetteer for Scotland|access-date= 3 August 2023}} It was a fishing and trading settlement where the river Denburn entered the Dee estuary.{{cite encyclopedia |editor-first=Dale H. |editor-last=Hoiberg |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |title=Aberdeen |edition=15th |year=2010 |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. |volume=I: A-ak Bayes |location=Chicago, Illinois |isbn=978-1-59339-837-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopaedia-britannica-15th-edition/The%20New%20Encyclopaedia%20Britannica%20-%20Volume%201/page/27/mode/1up 27–28] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaedia-britannica-15th-edition/The%20New%20Encyclopaedia%20Britannica%20-%20Volume%201/page/27/mode/1up }} The burgh of New Aberdeen was merged with Old Aberdeen in 1891 to form the county of the city of Aberdeen.

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.

File:Robert The Bruce Marischal College.JPG 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{{cite journal|url=http://www.eupjournals.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0020157X07000054 |title=Aberdeen's 'Toun College': Marischal College, 1593–1623 |author=Steven John Reid |journal=The Innes Review |year=2007 |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=173–195 |doi=10.3366/E0020157X07000054 |access-date=2016-02-04}} to train post-Reformation Kirk clergy.{{cite journal |title=University Charter |journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=145–158 |jstor=530957}} and became known as Aberdeen's "Town College".