Könneritzstrasse (Dresden)

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Konneritzstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Dresden
Konneritzstrasse
View to the southwest along Koenneritzstrasse from the confluence with Devrientstrasse, 2017.
Basic data
place Dresden
District Wilsdruffer suburb
Hist. Names At the Viaduct,
Paul-Gruner-Straße
Connecting roads Marienbrücke ,
Ammonstrasse
Cross streets Devrientstrasse,
Ostra-Allee / Magdeburger Str. ,
Maxstrasse / Friedrichstrasse ,
Ritzenbergstrasse,
Laurinstrasse,
Jahnstrasse,
Schweriner Strasse ,
Ehrlichstrasse
Buildings Penck hotel ,
Dresden Mitte station ,
Kraftwerk Mitte
use
User groups Motor traffic , public transport , pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 1100 meters

The Könneritzstraße is an inner-city street with a main street function in the city center of Dresden . The national highway is entirely in the Wilsdruffer suburb in the district Old Town I . It thus runs in the old town district and is part of the statistical district of Wilsdruffer Vorstadt / Seevorstadt-West . The street named after the Saxon Finance Minister Leonce von Könneritz (1835–1890) is characterized by its location on the elevated tracks of the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway . The railway line runs in this area on several viaducts, the bridge arches of which with the railway arch gallery characterize the north-western side of the street along its entire length. Several lines of the Dresden tram drive on the Könneritzstraße, which was laid out at the end of the 19th century, at which the Dresden Mitte station is an important transfer point for Dresden's public transport and the Mitte power station (including the Theater Junge Generation and Dresden State Operetta ), a central cultural institution of the state capital .

traffic

Various means of public transport at Dresden Mitte station

The Könneritzstraße is part of the 26er Ring , which leads around the inner Dresden suburbs . This ring road bears the name Könneritzstrasse from its northeasternmost point on Devrientstrasse to the confluence with Ehrlichstrasse. This makes it the connection between Marienbrücke and Ammonstraße . The Könneritzstraße as a section of the traffic axis from Schlesisches to Wiener Platz directs the traffic northwest around the city center. From Devrient Strasse to Magdeburger Strasse , Könneritzstrasse is part of Bundesstrasse 6 , and the rest of the section is part of Bundesstrasse 173 that begins there . Another important intersection is the one with Schweriner Straße . The Könneritzstraße is mostly flat, the only slight incline is in the northeastern section as a ramp to the Marienbrücke.

Dresden Mitte station , a stop on the Dresden S-Bahn, is located on Könneritzstrasse . Together with the neighboring tram stops at Jahnstraße, it forms an important transfer point in the city center. In addition to the footpaths along the streets, there are also passages for pedestrians under the railway line at Dresden Mitte station to Weißeritzstrasse, at the level of the Kraftwerk Mitte pedestrian traffic light to Roßthaler Strasse and, since 2007, at Ehrlichstrasse to Bauhofstrasse. For motorized individual traffic, one lane and turning lanes are available for each direction of travel. In the direction of Marienbrücke the carriageway between Ehrlichstrasse and Schweriner Strasse is two-lane, in the opposite direction the one between Devrientstrasse and Magdeburger Strasse.

The tracks of the Dresden tram (lines 6 and 10 of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe ) run in the middle of the street until they are led to a separate track next to the street near Ehrlichstraße. There are two tram stops along the street that are suitable for disabled people: the “ Kongresszentrum ( Haus der Presse )” stop between Devrientstraße and Ostra-Allee, the “Bahnhof Mitte” stop between Laurinstraße and Jahnstraße. The plan is to build a third tram stop at Kraftwerk Mitte at the expense of the left lane in the direction of Marienbrücke. There are branches or track crossings for the tram at the level of Ostra-Allee , Max- / Friedrichstraße and Jahnstraße - the latter is considered "one of the most complicated rail crossings in the city". With the exception of a few meters near the confluence with Devrientstrasse, road and rail traffic on Könneritzstrasse are separated from one another by separate lanes, only public transport buses share the traffic area with the trams in sections.

history

Wettiner Strasse station in 1908, on the right the Könneritzstrasse
Könneritzstraße 25 shortly before the demolition, at the end of 2018

The current area of ​​the Könneritzstraße was the unpaved and flood-prone right bank of the Weißeritz until the early 19th century . The development of the Wilsdruffer Vorstadt first reached this area at the current confluence with Maxstraße, as it was part of the main connection between the inner old town and Friedrichstadt . There was the only Weißeritzbrücke below Löbtau for centuries , the Friedrichsbrücke (formerly the Ostrabrücke). In the first half of the 19th century, the first right bank path of the Weißeritz as the earliest forerunner of the Könneritzstraße was built in this area - between the current confluences of Maxstraße and Ostra-Allee.

With the construction of the Marienbrücke from 1846 to 1852, the inner-city rail link between Dresden Hauptbahnhof and Dresden-Neustadt station was also established . On the old town side, the location in the Elbe valley and the then course of the Weißeritz required a 769 meter long foreland bridge for this railway. In old maps it is noted as the “viaduct of the connecting railway”; the Könneritzstrasse was to follow its course later. The existing Weißeritzuferweg now served as access to the Marienbrücke, but was separated from the Weißeritz by the new railway line. It was then given the name Am Viaduct, under which it is noted, among other things, in a city map from 1862.

In the general building plan of 1862, the area of ​​the later Könneritzstrasse was intended as the border between the closed development of the inner and the open development of the outer suburbs. Following the example of other cities, it was to become part of a promenade that leads in a ring around the inner city and takes up the passenger and freight traffic between the Dresden train stations. In the second half of the 19th century, the development of the Wilsdruffer Vorstadt moved right up to the railway line - especially in the area of ​​the old town gasworks on Wettiner Platz . Often it was the back of the property used as a garden, including from Schützengasse, but some of these had a common line of flight, followed by a narrow footpath at best.

It was only in the course of the planning for the redesign of the Dresden railway junction that the construction of a road on the southeast side of the railway line was planned more emphatically. In city plans from the late 1880s, the course of the street that was still planned at the time is already indicated. From 1891 to 1893 the Weißeritz was relocated to Cotta in order to gain building land. This was used, among other things, to lay the road that was extended to the southwest to Ammonstraße. For this purpose, the site of the gas works was reduced, from which the light works emerged around 1895 as the forerunner of the Mitte power station. The main reason for the relocation of Weißeritz, however, was the widening of the railway line, for which new viaducts were built in the mid-1890s and a second Marienbrücke bridge from 1898.

Through traffic on the viaducts started in 1896; this year can be found in a restored medallion on a bridge pillar on Könneritzstrasse, immediately to the left of Schweriner Strasse. On October 1, 1897, at the height of Jahnstrasse, the Dresden Mitte station was opened under the name “Wettiner Strasse stop” with its 100 meter long and 36 meter wide platform hall, which spanned all six tracks. On the other side of the new street, until 1896, five-story residential buildings with a shop area on the ground floor and a representative clinker brick facade were built in a closed construction . Between Ostra-Allee and Dresden Mitte train station there was a closed row house development from 1900 at the latest.

To the south-west of it, also in the area of ​​the power plant, open construction prevailed . Only the area near the confluence with Devrientstraße remained undeveloped until 1945 and subsequently until the present (status: 2018), even though there was an intention to build and corresponding parcelling as early as the early 20th century. From 1900 onwards, the Pöppelmannstrasse flowed between Devrientstrasse and Ostra-Allee, which was laid out as a result of the overbuilding of the Maximiliansgarten and was moved back in after 1945 before the House of the Press was built there. Moritz-Kloß-Straße, which was named in 1912 and built over in the 1980s and connected the Könneritzstraße from the confluence of the Jahnstraße with the street Am Schießhaus, also no longer exists.

Crossing Könneritzstrasse / Magdeburger Strasse (turning federal road 6 ) with viaduct of the railway line Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt and the railway arch gallery , in the background the Yenidze
Könneritzstrasse 5, northwest wing of the Penck-Hotel building complex

In the meantime, the street had received the name Könneritzstraße until 1895 - after the manor owner, lawyer and conservative politician Leonce von Könneritz , who died in 1890 and was also a member of the Saxon state parliament and during its tenure as Saxony's finance minister, which lasted from 1876 to 1890, the approval of numerous railway lines. November 22, 1900 went down in the history of the Dresden tram network as the opening day of the electrified tram route from Maxstrasse to Ammonstrasse , followed by the route from Maxstrasse to over Marienbrücke on November 16, 1901. From 1904 the Ringbahnlinie 26 operated there, which gave the name to the 26er Ring . In addition to the light plant, the west power plant was built as a mirror-image counterpart in 1900, which also generated electrical energy. Both were merged and expanded to form the Mitte power station from 1926 to 1928.

As a result of the devastating air raids on Dresden in February 1945, many buildings along the Könneritzstrasse were destroyed or severely damaged and later demolished. Among other things, this affected the hall of the Dresden Mitte train station. At the intersection with Schweriner Strasse, Dresden's first fully automatic traffic light went into operation on December 10, 1961 . However, only a few new buildings were built along the Könneritzstrasse during the GDR era , so that many of the properties lay fallow for several decades. The most striking new building from this era was the eight-story VEB Energiebau built in the 1980s at Könneritzstrasse 25, which moved its headquarters from Radebeul to Dresden. From the 2000s onwards, the building, which was demolished at the end of 2018, served as a cost-effective location for educational and social institutions, start-ups and associations.

The office bar had not been in line with Könneritzstrasse, but was set back more than 30 meters. The background to this were plans that had existed since the 1960s, the leitmotif of which was the development of the transport infrastructure based on the growth of vehicles. After that, the main roads of the 26er Ring and within it were to be generously expanded and widened with multiple lanes, and the tram was to have its own track structure. If this was implemented in the case of St. Petersburger Strasse and Ammonstrasse in the area of ​​the Budapester Strasse bridge , the expansion plans for Könneritzstrasse, which would also have included a new Marienbrücke similar to the Carolabrücke , were not carried out. Similar to St. Petersburger Strasse, Könneritzstrasse would have been given a wide green strip on its south-east side, which would then have been completely cleared of buildings, but the tram line would have been in the middle, i.e. between both lanes.

According to the name, the area between Devrientstrasse and Magdeburger Strasse was not added to the street until after the Second World War , which until then - still going back to the function of this section as a bridge ramp - was run as a section of the Marienbrücke. In the GDR era, for political reasons, the street was no longer named after the aristocrats from the Thuringian-Meissnian noble family Könneritz , but after the KPD or SED politician and FDGB functionary Paul Gruner (1890-1947). The renaming after Leonce von Könneritz took place in 1990 after the political reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR . In the 1990s, the renovation of the street, on which the traffic had risen sharply, gradually began. The tram tracks were renewed and separated from the car lanes. The change from concrete slabs in the track area, asphalt that has become unstable and partly cobblestone gave way to an asphalt pavement, and the road was given new footpaths and cycle paths.

In the 1990s, new residential, commercial and office buildings were built first between Ostra-Allee and Maxstraße, then between Ritzenberg- and Laurinstraße and finally between Jahn- and Schweriner Straße. Around 2000 the building at Schweriner Strasse 54 on the corner of Könneritzstrasse was demolished because it was in disrepair - built around 1850, it was the last house on Könneritzstrasse from the time before it was built. Also around 2000, five-storey residential buildings from the time before the Second World War were demolished near the confluence with Ehrlichstrasse to make room for the subsequent expansion of Könneritzstrasse. In the first half of 2002 the tram line was moved from Schweriner Straße between Wettiner Platz and Weißeritzstraße to Jahnstraße so that a central transfer point could be created directly at Dresden Mitte station.

During the floods in Central Europe in 2002 , the Weißeritz overflowed its banks in August. For the first time since its relocation at the end of the 19th century, it flowed again roughly along its former river bed, including via Könneritzstrasse, causing enormous damage to all of the neighboring houses. The repairs were carried out in the following years with funds from the state flood aid. After seven months of construction, in December 2005 the handicapped-accessible tram stop “Kongresszentrum (House of the Press)” replaced the old stations in front of the Penck-Hotel building complex . In 2007, the section of Könneritzstrasse between Ehrlichstrasse and Schweriner Strasse was rehabilitated as the last section of the 26th Ring on the left bank of the Elbe. Traffic censuses in 2009 showed a load of 20,100 vehicles in 24 hours for the completed Könneritzstrasse in the Dresden Mitte station area. After the striking boiler house of the Mitte power plant was demolished in 2006, extensive renovations have been underway on the site since 2011. At the end of 2019, the municipal building committee decided to draw up a development plan for a 0.87 hectare area currently (as of 2020) used as a car parking space on the corner of Könneritzstrasse and Ehrlichstrasse, around a modern office and commercial building that also houses a contains high-rise buildings up to 55 meters high.

Development

City viaduct II of the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway line with part 3 of the railway arch gallery
Cultural monuments at Könneritzstrasse 19 and 21
View over Könneritzstrasse to the buildings of the Mitte power station

The elevated section of the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt line extends along the entire north-western side of the road, known as the inner-city connecting line. The 163 meter long Dresden I city viaduct is located directly southwest of the bridge over Schweriner Straße. To the northeast, the 117-meter-long Dresden II city viaduct connects between the bridges over the Schwerin and Jahnstrasse. Opposite the Könneritzstraße 25 is the Dresden Mitte train station with the address Könneritzstraße 2. Finally, the 120-meter-long Dresden III city viaduct extends between the bridges over Friedrichstraße and Magdeburger Straße.

The city viaducts - they are considered to be "important in terms of urban development history" and are therefore under protection as technical monuments in Dresden - are arch bridges made of sandstone that were built in the 1890s and bricked up in 2006. On the façade created in this way is the railway arch gallery , a series of graffiti images designed on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the first mention of the city of Dresden , which primarily deal with the topics of traffic and infrastructure. Similar street art works adorn the outer walls of the Mitte train station.

The section between Devrientstraße and Ostra-Allee is undeveloped. There is a publicly accessible green area there. The Yenidze on the other side of the railway line, as well as the House of the Press , the International Congress Center and the Erlweinspeicher are within sight . Between Ostra-Allee and Maxstraße there is a seven-storey business and office block with an alternation of ribbon windows and metal-clad wall strips with a "technical character", which forms the rear wing of the triangular Penck Hotel building complex (house numbers 5 and 7); In the wing of the building with house number 3 (corner of Ostra-Allee), among others, the SPD Saxony has its headquarters. The property at Maxstrasse 17 in the corner between Maxstrasse and Ritzenbergstrasse is undeveloped.

Southwest of Ritzenbergstraße are the two residential buildings at Könneritzstraße 11 (including the seat of the Swiss consular mission in Dresden ) and 13, which were built in 1896 and have five full floors with a shop area on the ground floor and are protected as cultural monuments (see list of cultural monuments in the Wilsdruffer suburb ). The six-storey residential and commercial building at Könneritzstrasse 15 / Laurinstrasse 6 was added to it in 1996.On the other side of Laurinstrasse, opposite the Mitte train station, there are also listed residential buildings at Könneritzstrasse 19 and 21, just like house numbers 11 and 13, five-storey and with Clinker facades executed. In the area of ​​Könneritzstrasse 25, Deutsche Wohnen is planning to build a new large residential complex that will extend to Schützenplatz and Schützengasse. A seven-story office building has stood at Könneritzstrasse 29 to 33 since 1998 . The corner lot at Schweriner Straße 54 is undeveloped.

To the south-west of Schweriner Strasse, the complex of the Mitte power station rises to the end of Könneritzstrasse . There are several listed buildings on Könneritzstraße: the former railway works (Schweriner Straße 28) built in 1926, the former coal shed (since 2002/06 KraftWerk - Dresden Energy Museum , postal address: Kraftwerk Mitte 26), the former lightworks built in 1895 (including power plant Mitte 18) and the former social building, also built in 1895 (power station Mitte 16). The Young Generation Theater and the Dresden State Operetta have been housed in the Kraftwerk Mitte since 2016, and the collection of the puppet theater is planned for 2021.

Web links

Commons : Könneritzstraße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The earlier course of Moritz-Kloß-Straße, which arose along the old shooting range at the shooting house , which was abandoned in 1873 , can still be traced back to the back of the buildings at Schützengasse 2 to 18, which once formed the front of Moritz-Kloß-Straße. In the planned new development in the area of ​​Könneritzstraße 25 from 2020, this street is to be rebuilt as a green promenade, starting with a gatehouse at the confluence of Jahnstraße and Könneritzstraße.
  2. ↑ The Press House is an extension of the line of flight at 25 Könneritzstrasse . This high-rise would have become the dominant feature of the urban development right on the Old Town bridgehead of the new Marienbrücke, if the planning had come to fruition. All of the buildings in between, including the remnants of Wilhelminian style buildings along Maxstrasse and Ritzenbergstrasse, should have given way to the expansion plans for a greatly widened Könneritzstrasse.
  3. ↑ A photo by Siegfried Bregulla from 1994, available as data record 72074569 on deutschefotothek.de , shows the house at Schweriner Strasse 54, which was in great need of renovation at the time, with its archway , which takes up the footpath of Könneritzstrasse (due to the construction time of the house was in front of the Konneritzstrasse it is not on their alignment). It was still there three years later, as evidenced by the photo by Siegfried Bregulla from November 1997, available as data record 72083492 on deutschefotothek.de . At that time, the office building at Könneritzstrasse 29–33 (on the left), completed in 1998, was under construction.
  4. ↑ An oblique aerial photograph by Walter Hahn from 1930, available as data record 70008517 on deutschefotothek.de , shows the short row of terraced houses in the southwestern part of Könneritzstraße (and behind the houses the mighty composite cooling tower of the Mitte power station). At least parts of it can still be seen in the photo by Siegfried Bregulla from November 1997, available as data record 72083479 on deutschefotothek.de . At the expense of the property, after the demolition, the Könneritzstrasse was widened in this area and its curve radius increased and a non-public parking lot was created. Overall, the Könneritzstraße including the tram tracks also moved closer to the railway line during the expansion after 2000. As Hahn's photo shows, there was once a wider strip of trees there.
  5. ↑ An oblique aerial photograph by Walter Hahn from 1924, available as data record 81373971 on deutschefotothek.de , shows the largely undeveloped area on which the Pöppelmannstraße, which was moved in and built over after 1945, joins the ramp between Könneritzstraße and Marienbrücke (center of the picture, right below the Yenidze ). A photo by Henrik Ahlers from 1993, available as data record 90076078 on deutschefotothek.de , depicts a two-story multi-purpose building with a flat roof that stood in the area between Devrientstrasse and Ostra-Allee at least in the early 1990s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe : Overview of stops at Dresden Central Station. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ dresden.de: New bike and footpath released between Bauhofstrasse and Könneritzstrasse. Dresden, November 26, 2007. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ Christoph Springer: Könneritzstraße opened to traffic again. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. June 22, 2002, p. 13.
  4. ^ Friedrichsbrücke in the Stadtwiki Dresden
  5. ^ Norbert Kempke: From Leipzig to Dresden in 220 minutes , chapter 1846, the construction of the Marienbrücke began , p. 58 ff. Ed .: Association of Journalists of the Dresden District on the occasion of the solidarity campaign in 1989, Dresden 1989.
  6. ^ Friedrich August Lang (ed.): Special situation plan of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden. In Sections Sheets 16 inches high and 20 inches wide. Self-published, Dresden 1862. In: deutschefotothek.de . Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ Werner Pampel: The general building plan 1862 and the overall building plan 1901 for the city of Dresden. In: Forschungsgemeinschaft Kulturgeschichte des Dresdner Raumes (ed.): Dresdner Hefte 20 , Dresden 1989, pp. 13-20 ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ Hans Reinecke: Dresden old town, Könneritzstrasse. High track system (city viaduct) of the railway line Dresden Hauptbahnhof - Dresden Neustadt station. Sandstone plaque with the Saxon crown and the year 1896 next to the bridge over Schweriner Strasse (east side on the left). Dresden, March 3, 1992. In: deutschefotothek.de . Retrieved January 6, 2019.
  9. ↑ Karlheinz Kregelin: Dresden - The book of names of streets and squares in the 26er ring. Fly head publishing house, Halle 1993, ISBN 978-3-930195-01-5 .
  10. ↑ Kenny Langer: Colorful variety in the gray GDR block. In: sächsische.de , Dresden, March 10, 2017. Accessed December 29, 2018.
  11. ↑ Nora Domschke: Demolition begins on Könneritzstrasse. In: sächsische.de , Dresden, November 25, 2018. Accessed December 29, 2018.
  12. ↑ Thomas Baumann-Hartwig: Builders cry no tears for the ABB house. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. June 21, 2019, p. 15.
  13. ^ State capital Dresden (ed.): From traffic planning to mobility management. Dresden traffic concepts, past and present. Dresden 2006. Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  14. ↑ dresden.de: The renovation of Könneritzstrasse continues. Dresden, March 1, 2002. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  15. ↑ See Henrik Ahlers: Elbe floods August 2002. Photo gallery, Dresden, August 21, 2002. In: deutschefotothek.de . Retrieved January 6, 2019.
  16. ↑ Thomas Hartwig: From tomorrow the tram will cross Marienbrücke again. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. December 9, 2005, p. 15.
  17. ↑ Christoph Springer: Closing the gap in the 26 ring. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. August 10, 2007, p. 15.
  18. ^ Sylke Schwarz et al .: Dresden Transport Development Plan 2025plus. Synoptic traffic analysis. July 2011. Dresden / Aachen 2011, p. 36.
  19. ↑ buergerbeteiligung.sachsen.de: Development plan No. 3054, Dresden-Altstadt I No. 50, Könneritzstraße / Ehrlichstraße. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  20. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony (ed.): Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony - Monument document: Obj.-Dok.-Nr. 09210320. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  21. ^ Martin Wörner (ed.): Architecture Guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 , p. 33.
  22. ↑ Christin Grödel: Deutsche Wohnen Group buys property on Dresdner Könneritzstrasse. In: dnn.de , Dresden, January 15, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  23. ↑ Anne Christin Bonß: Construction of a new Nobel corner. In: sächsische.de , Dresden, January 16, 2018. Accessed December 29, 2018.
  24. ↑ polisag.de: Könneritzstrasse 29, 31, 33. Retrieved on December 29, 2018.
  25. ↑ kraftwerk-mitte-dresden.de: Building in the power plant in the center of Dresden. Retrieved December 29, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 21 ″  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 28 ″  E