Flinger Strasse

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Flinger Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Düsseldorf
Flinger Strasse
Flinger Strasse, in the background the "Alte Kaufhof an der Kö"
Basic data
place Dusseldorf
District Old town
Created 1384
Connecting roads Heinrich-Heine-Allee , Berger Strasse / Marktstrasse, Rheinstrasse
Cross streets Neustraße, Heinrich-Heine-Platz, Hunsückenstraße, Stadtbrückchen, Kapuzinergasse, Mittelstraße
Buildings Carsch house
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport
Road design Pedestrian zone
Technical specifications
Street length 300 m

The Flingerstraße is a central street of Düsseldorf's Old Town and a major shopping street of the capital. It runs from Heinrich-Heine-Allee and the underground station there to Marktstrasse and Berger Strasse. The street, which was laid out in the 14th century, is now a pedestrian zone and location for numerous textile companies that appeal to a young audience. Flinger Strasse is the shopping street with the highest footfall in Düsseldorf and, with around 12,000 measured passers-by per hour, is one of the five most frequented shopping streets in Germany.

Near the Rhine, at the south-western end of the only 250 m long street, there are two facilities of the Düsseldorf tradition, the Uerige brewery and "et Kabüffke", a bar of the Peter Busch liqueur factory with its most famous product, the Killepitsch , and the associated shop. These traditional businesses are great attractions for locals and tourists. Strictly speaking, the brewery is already on Rheinstraße, although this street is unknown to most of the locals and emotionally it is added to Flinger Straße. On Flinger Straße there are several buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries, all of which are listed.

history

Old Flinger Tor

The Flinger Straße was laid out as part of the first city expansion around 1384 and led over the Rheinstraße from the “Rheintor” to the “Flinger Tor”, which was first documented in 1400, where the “Flinger Steinweg”, today's Schadowstraße , began to Flingern . This made Flinger Strasse the city's first thoroughfare.

In 1443, Duke Gerhard decided to build a new building for an inn and hospital on the street. The complex was at the intersection of Flinger and the corner of Berger Strasse. The ruler gave the leadership to the Cross Brothers . In addition to providing accommodation for travelers passing through, the institution's task was to “feed and refresh pilgrims, the sick, the lame and the blind”. The new hospital was completed and moved to Flinger Strasse in 1449. The inn was to shape the street for over 200 years. Around 1657, the old inn had to be largely abandoned due to its disrepair and was replaced by a new building, which was already called the Golden Helmet at the time . A new hospital, called St. Hubertus Hospital, was only built at the beginning of the 18th century on today's Kasernenstrasse .

In October 1669, several houses on the street fell victim to a large fire that completely destroyed 22 houses in the small town.

Johann Bernhard Francken (or Franconia), who was raised to the rank of imperial lordship in 1721, built the "Düsselstein" estate in the Flingerstrasse and Mittelstrasse area , which was included in the Bergisches Rittergüter under protest from the Bergisch nobility . According to another documentation, the Grosse Düsselstein estate is mentioned in a document in 1752. The Schlebusch family owned the property at that time. A Johann Theodor von Schlebusch († 1716) was married to Anna Magaretha von Franken at the beginning of the 18th century.

From 1771, the Imperial Post Office was located in house number 20 on Flinger Strasse for a few decades . Further information is given under Individual Houses: House No. 20 .

On June 29, 1621, Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm laid the foundation stone for a Capuchin monastery church on property no. The residential buildings of this monastery were buildings no. 25, 27, 29 and 31. The rear area of ​​the monastery extended to today's Wallstrasse . Parts of the monastery were demolished when Carlstadt was built in 1788 for the construction of Mittelstrasse. To compensate, the order received two buildings on the corner of Wallstrasse and Mittelstrasse. In the course of secularization , the monastery was dissolved in 1803. The monastery church was demolished in 1804 and the organ and two side altars were transferred to the church of St. Anna in the Hubertus Hospital on Kasernenstrasse . In addition to the abbey, currently the building at Wallstrasse 29 b , there was also the monks' brewery. On April 16, 1810, this was sold by the tax authorities to Steffen and Consorten .

At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, Flinger Strasse was one of the better residential areas in the city, with property values ​​above average. Wine merchants and other merchants preferred to settle here. Yet the social structure was mixed. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century that the street was paved with hewn basalt. Before it was only secured with rubble stones and pebbles. Around 1860, around 3.5% of the entire Düsseldorf population lived on Flinger Strasse with 1555 residents. Around 1890 there were around 80 retail stores on Flinger Strasse; Today there are around 40, which is mainly due to the fact that the retail space is larger today due to mergers and new buildings.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Flinger Strasse was a meeting place for the Düsseldorf social democrats . Meetings of the comrades took place e.g. B. in the restaurants "Zum Goldenen Haddock" (house no. 42) and "Zum Churfürsten" (house no. 36). Due to regular police checks and social problems, the innkeepers of the SPD were reluctant to provide premises. In 1904, the party and some trade unions bought buildings 11-17 on Flinger Strasse in order to have their future party house built there. From 1907 to 1909, the “Volkshaus” (house no. 11) was built on this property .

Houses at Flinger Strasse 5, 3 and 1 around 1900

In World War II, large parts of the road were completely destroyed. Only a few buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries survived the war largely unscathed, were restored and are now listed. During the reconstruction after 1945, the pedestrian area on the south side of the street was widened in the western area from house No. 1 to No. 9. The house escape was moved back in these buildings and adapted to the older house no. Since house no. 1 was largely undamaged, only the lower front of the shop was taken back and colonnades were rebuilt for a passage. From house no. 3, the houses were set back and replaced by new buildings with unadorned fronts.

From the beginnings of the street in the 14th century, as in many other parts of the old town, nothing has survived to the present day. But even if the street has lost its 400-year function as the main thoroughfare in Düsseldorf and is now a pedestrian zone, it is still one of the liveliest places in the state capital.

Individual buildings

House no. 8, " To the white fox "

The house was built in the 18th century and later added Art Nouveau elements. The building has been a listed building since 1985.

House No. 10, "To the golden boat"

In the first half of the 18th century, the wine merchant Willich ran a wine trade and a wine bar in this house. Other owners were the bridge master Coblenz in 1742 and from 1805 the butcher Joseph Zumbusch, who ran a butcher's shop in the house.

House number 11

Former people education center

From the original houses No. 11 to 17, the names of some owners from 1700 to the end of the 19th century are mentioned in documentation before the building of the later Volkshaus . For 1807, in house no. 11, the same literature source mentions the operation of a wine bar. In house no. 17, called Im Morian at the beginning of the 18th century and called Zu den Drei Mohren from 1783 , there was a bakery until it was demolished.

In 1909 the four old houses were torn down and the front of the house moved to the south to widen a free area in front of the new building. The national education center of the trade unions was set up under No. 11, which was intended to provide further training and entertainment for the workers in the booming industrial city. The sponsors were the eleven trade unions in Düsseldorf, whose membership grew from 3,000 to around 23,000 between 1902 and 1913. In the house there were several meeting rooms, a restaurant, offices and a printing shop for the Social Democratic People's Party .

The history of the Volksbildungshaus was short-lived. During the First World War it was used for military purposes and in the 1920s the operation had to be stopped due to financial difficulties. The name was changed to House of German Estates . The National Socialists then established the Fatherland House here .

After the Second World War, the restored former “Volkshaus” housed a hotel, a dance hall and the small theater founded by Hans-Müller Schlösser and Kurt Bruck . In 1954 the building was sold to the renowned furniture store Berges . The happening Leben mit Pop - A Demonstration for Capitalist Realism , organized by Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg , took place here in 1963 . In 1989 the original facade was exposed and renovated. Since the Berges company closed down in the mid-1990s, there has been a branch of Strauss Innovation , which filed for bankruptcy in 2016. The shop has been empty since then.

In the 1980s, the subculture club Line Light , one of the most famous “scene locations” next to Ratinger Hof, was located in the basement of house No. 11 . The successor to the Line Light was the Dr. Jazz , also a nationally known institution, which later traded as Doc Music . Line light parties have been held here at irregular intervals since 2007, and they still appealed to the old audience 16 years after the club had closed. From the end of 2011 to August 2013 there was a private Elvis Museum with over 1,500 original exhibits. From October 31st, the cellar bar will be run by Frank Wesoly under the name Die Kammer , a club for gays and lesbians with a bar, events and cabaret.

House number 20

This is where the Imperial Post Office was located from January 1, 1771 until the beginning of the 19th century , today on the corner of Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse . In 1814 this was moved to a corner house in Altestadt No. 17, the former Hof von Holland inn . Subscription concerts have been given in the post office building since 1791. A "music academy" was also formed here. At times the offerings of German and Italian music were a great attraction for society.

In 1807 the postman Georg Lejeune was here. He had bought the former Capuchin monastery church across the street, demolished it and built an inn there. To improve his income, he also set up a dance hall in house number 20. In 1828 the new owner, businessman Simon Hohmann, set up the social bar "Im Casino". In 1837 , the then President of the Chamber of Commerce, Franz Schimmelbusch, organized an “Exhibition of Industrial Products of the Düsseldorf Administrative Region”, which was a great success with 8654 visitors and was to lay the foundation for Düsseldorf's development as an exhibition and trade fair city. 113 tradespeople, including furniture manufacturers, various craftsmen and also industrial companies exhibited around 3,000 items that could be bought directly.

Hartoch department store No. 18/26

Hartoch department store on a postcard from 1898

The Düsseldorf department store, built in 1896 by the Jewish merchant family Hartoch at Bolkerstraße 19/21 by the architects Jacobs & Wehling , was demolished and, according to plans by the architect Richard Hultsch, became “a large department store complex” in 1905 with a glass passage up to house number 20 on the Flinger Road extended. In 1932 the department store went bankrupt; the building was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943. The Schneider-Wibbel Alley had it before the Second World War, not given. It was laid out in the rubble when construction began around 1955, and the street was paved from 1956. In memory of the former owners of the department store, a stele was erected on October 12, 2007 at what was then the passage between the Woolworth / Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse department store .

House No. 28, "Zum Goldenen Krahnen"

The corner house at Flinger Straße / Kapuzinergasse No. 28, called Zum golden Loskrahnen and Zum Goldenen Krahnen , was Wittib Crüchten's house in 1738 . After 1786 F. Breitenstein and F. Hagedorn were the owners, until 1803 the widow Hagedorn sold the house to the hat maker Rodenkirchen. Other owners were PT Schmitten and, at the end of the 19th century, the copper hammer JH Biesenbach. The department store group Woolworth later built a new building on lots 22-28 and opened a branch that was operated until 2007. After this branch was demolished, a building was rebuilt on the property.

More buildings

House of the Elector
Monkey holding a paintbrush. " Immendorff eye" at commercial building No. 25 (1996/2010)

The Goldener Helm house from the 18th century is located at Flinger Straße 1 . It is the production and sales location of the Düsseldorf specialty Killepitsch .

For houses no. 7 - at that time called In der Kluft - and no. 9 - called In der Goldene Lilie - a baker and brewer named Gosvin Verres is named as the owner for 1737 . Further owners of breweries, distilleries and other trades can be identified by name for both buildings in the 18th and 19th centuries. No. 9 was owned by the brewer Friedrich Sonnen , who also ran an inn brewery, before 1889 . He should have been the namesake for a change in the name to Zur Sonne . Under this name there was an inn brewery in this building until the beginning of the second half of the 20th century.

The House of the Elector at number 36 from 1627 is one of the most impressive buildings in the old town from this period. The name of the building goes back to a restaurant of the same name, which was operated until the middle of the 20th century and was the oldest restaurant in the city.

Lost and destroyed buildings

literature

  • Udo Acht (Ed.): Düsseldorf on foot . VSA, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-87975-485-3 , p. 15 ff.
  • Hugo Weidenhaupt: A Brief History of the City of Düsseldorf . 9th edition. Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7998-0000-X , pp. 55, 106, 146.
  • Hermann Kleinfeld: Düsseldorf's streets and their names . Grupello, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-928234-36-6 , p. 123.
  • Jörg Heimeshoff : Listed houses in Düsseldorf . Nobel, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-922785-68-9 , p. 92 ff.
  • Harald Frater: The Düsseldorf Atlas . Emons, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-355-1 , p. 119.
  • H. Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf, delivery II , reprint of the edition from 1890. Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1980, without ISBN, p. 17ff

Web links

Commons : Flinger Straße (Düsseldorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germany's most popular shopping mile in 2014: Cologne won the double for the first time
  2. ↑ 2014: 12,285 according to Jones Lang Lasalle , May 12, 2014
  3. ↑ Erich Wiplingshoff: Middle Ages and early modern times. From the first written messages to the end of the Jülich-Klevischen inheritance dispute (approx. 700–1614) . In: Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 1 . Schwann / Patmos, Düsseldorf, 1988, p. 269ff, ISBN 3-491-34221-X .
  4. ^ Joseph Bücheler, in: Das Gasthaus der Stadt Düsseldorf or the St. Hubertus Hospital , 1849, p. [14] 8.
  5. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part II, p. 16.
  6. ↑ a b H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part II, p. 19.
  7. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part II, p. 20.
  8. ↑ Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein ; in: Volume 3, 1888, p. [99] 95.
  9. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part II, p. 21.
  10. ↑ Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein ; in: Volume 3, 1888, p. [117] 100.
  11. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, part II, p. 71.
  12. ↑ Klaus Müller: Under the Palatinate-Neuburg and Palatinate-Bavarian rule (1614–1806) . In: Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 2 . Schwann / Patmos, Düsseldorf, 1988, p. 157ff, ISBN 3-491-34221-X
  13. ↑ Alfons Houben; In: Düsseldorf How it was then - how it is today , 1983, WI-Verlag, p. 178/179.
  14. ↑ H.Ferber, in: Historical walk through the old city of Dusseldorf , 1889, published by C. Kraus, Part II, p 26th
  15. ↑ a b c d H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part II, pp. 17 + 18.
  16. ↑ Alfons Houben, in: 'Düsseldorf' How it was then - how it is today , WI – Verlag GmbH, 1983, pp. 78–79.
  17. ^ Website of the Elvis Presley exhibition in Düsseldorf . Retrieved February 17, 2012
  18. ↑ Elvis Museum closes. Die Welt, August 2, 2013, accessed August 13, 2013
  19. ↑ club for gays and LesbenEx- "Dr. Jazz “becomes rosarot , express.de, September 26, 2013
  20. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part I, p. 18.
  21. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, Part II, p. 27.
  22. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, Part II, p. 28.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The last few residents probably stayed in an outbuilding that belonged to the old hospital on Flinger Straße, as a new hospital, called St. Hubertus Hospital, was not built on today's Kasernenstraße until the beginning of the 18th century. A chapel should also have belonged to the old hospital. The old church book entries for “St. Anna ”began in 1700. Construction of the St. Hubertus Hospital with chapel began in 1709.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 31.3 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 29.9"  E