Neckartor

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Art Nouveau tenement houses
Nymph fountain at Neckartor in Stuttgart with the figure of a spring nymph or fountain nymph, 1877 (destroyed in 1944)

The Neckartor is a traffic junction in Stuttgart in the Kernerviertel. The street Am Neckartor is reminiscent of the Stuttgart city gate of the same name, which like all the others has now disappeared. Today, 60,000 cars pass this section of the road every day. It connects Willy-Brandt-Strasse with Cannstatter Strasse on the B 14 . While the palace gardens follow to the west and the main train station behind it , several streets branch off to the east at the tram entrance. A well-known air measuring station is located north of it in front of Heilmannstrasse.

Well-known buildings in the immediate vicinity

At the Neckartor (house numbers 18 and 20) there are listed Art Nouveau buildings by Emil Rein . Opposite was the nymph fountain by Johann Heinrich Dannecker , which was erected in 1877 , at that time still in sandstone, which was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944. A copy of the fountain nymph was then placed in the adjacent palace garden. From 1812 to 1873, the menagerie founded by Friedrich I , the predecessor of today's Wilhelma (see there), was located on the adjoining site of a royal country palace . In 1913/1914 Oskar Schlemmer and his brother Wilhelm ran the Neue Kunstsalon, which showed works by August Macke and Eugen Zeller.

Air measuring station

Development of the exceedance of the fine dust limit value at the measuring station "Am Neckartor" (in days per year)

An air measurement station has been located at Neckartor since 2001 (with measurements since December 2003), which for years has identified the neighboring intersection as "Germany's dirtiest" and is still the most famous air measurement station in Germany. There are measuring devices for a three-week analysis process in the fine dust classes PM10 and PM2.5 as well as a scattered light process for immediate measurement. It is the only station of this kind in Stuttgart and complements the passive collectors that are used throughout the city as small and inexpensive measuring devices. At the end of 2018, 17 filter columns were installed along the entire street section. As part of a pilot project, tests are to be carried out over a period of two years to determine whether they can effectively reduce particulate matter pollution and thus also exceeding limit values. Previously, u. a. a moss wall, wet vacuum cleaner and specially coated floor slabs were installed, but these could not relieve the entire section of the road from pollutants. Finally, special wall paints and road surfaces were used to reduce nitrogen oxide levels. They are still not low enough. This is why speed traps were installed and hybrid express buses were used on the bus route passing through.

In 2019, there were repeated demonstrations against the driving bans for Euro IV diesel vehicles at the measuring station. After the pollution level had not improved significantly by summer 2019, the diesel driving ban has also applied to Euro V vehicles since the beginning of 2020. In the past, the measuring station was damaged several times and thus put out of operation.

See also

Web links

  • Spot-Station Am Neckartor - Entry on the website of the Office for Environmental Protection, Urban Climatology Department, accessed on April 7, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jens Schmitz: Fine dust - Germany's most famous measuring station at the Neckartor in Stuttgart. Südwestpresse, February 23, 2019
  2. ↑ exhibitions . In: Schwäbische Kronik, second section of the Swabian Mercury , No. 191, Abendblatt, April 27, 1914, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Thomas Durchdenwald: The difficult fight against fine dust , in: Stuttgarter-Zeitung from April 15, 2014
  4. ↑ Results of the spot measurements 2016 , State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, accessed on February 19, 2017
  5. ↑ Video: History of a measuring station in the ARD morning magazine (Moma), February 8, 2019 (1:34 min.)
  6. ↑ New filter columns clean the air at the Neckartor. Stuttgarter Zeitung, November 28, 2018
  7. ↑ Route- related traffic ban for diesel cars Euro 5 and worse , state capital Stuttgart
  8. ↑ Unknown people set fire to the particulate matter measuring station at Neckartor. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. April 8, 2019, accessed April 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Christoph Link, Konstantin Schwarz: CDU "irritated" about measurement problem. Stuttgarter Zeitung, June 26, 2018

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '15.3 "  N , 9 ° 11' 23.3"  E