Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer
The Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer is, apart from a few exceptions, only built-up streets in the Dresden districts of Johannstadt and Blasewitz .
The street was laid out in 1901 as Hochuferstraße (i.e. flood-free street) between Sachsenplatz in Johannstadt and Barteldesplatz in Blasewitz. In Johannstadt, which belonged to Dresden, it was called Johannstädter Ufer , in Blasewitz Hochuferstraße , which was independent until 1921 . After the incorporation, the street was uniformly renamed Hindenburgufer , the Blasewitz properties were renumbered. In 1945 the street was renamed after the artist Käthe Kollwitz, who died in April of that year in Moritzburg near Dresden, and has been called Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer since then . Until the 2000s, however, it did not exist as a continuously linear street, but had a kind of "bulge" towards the south in its middle, which form today's ramps to Waldschlößchenbrücke and belong to Fetscherstraße: Before 1945 you could count on a continuous tour along the Elbe, the road completely bypassed the area of the former Dresden bird meadow . After 1945 the area was piled up with rubble up to three meters high and the GDR never had enough money to straighten this area. In this way, the continuous tour was only implemented here over 100 years after it was first established.
Due to its function as Hochuferstraße, it was only built on the south side: in Johannstadt as a closed development, in Blasewitz as an open villa construction. The north side facing the Elbe is, with a few exceptions (such as the Johannstadt flood pumping station of the Dresden city drainage system or the Anton an der Elbe , which was destroyed and cleared in 1945 ), undeveloped. Among other things, the four hectare Dresden natural monument No. 37 Glatthaferwiese on the Elbe bank of Johannstadt is located on it .
The buildings on the street itself, which were outside the area of the destruction during the air raids on Dresden in 1945 (the destruction limit of the large-scale destruction of the inner city ended at the confluence of today's Pfeifferhannsstraße in front of house number 19), and have since been renovated after 1990, are almost without exception a listed building. This includes u. a. the Villa zur Lippe (formerly Hochuferstraße 15) or the Villa Weigang (which belongs to the Goetheallee on the address side) .
The Villa Rautendelein (formerly Hochuferstraße 12, today property Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer 84) by the poet Gerhart Hauptmann is an example of the loss of building fabric due to the destruction in 1945 .
In the area of the destruction itself, the ruins were cleared over a large area; apart from a few high-rise buildings from the 1970s, this side remained an urban wasteland: development on the edge of the street itself was not started again until the 2000s. The rebuilding of numbers 21 and 22 between the two listed buildings No. 20 and 23 was redesigned in 2000 in such a way that it fits in with the surroundings.
The Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer is part of an important traffic route from the Terrassenufer to the Blauer Wunder , which connects Dresden's city center and the eastern outskirts.
literature
- Entry in Folke Stimmel u. a .: Stadtlexikon A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 , p. 215 f.
Web links
- Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer on dresdner-stadtteile.de
- Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer on johannstadtarchiv.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 38.6 ″ N , 13 ° 47 ′ 1 ″ E