26 ring
The 26er ring (according to the new spelling also 26er ring with hyphen) in Dresden represents the outer bypass in the inner city area. It encloses the districts Wilsdruffer Vorstadt , Seevorstadt and Pirnaische Vorstadt of the district Altstadt on the south side of the Elbe and the Innere Neustadt on the counterclockwise northern. Its circumference is about 9 kilometers, its diameter is about 3 kilometers.
The city ring is named after the ring tram line 26, which was first established in 1904 and converted into a full ring in 1909 , which existed until 2000 with some long-term interruptions and changing endpoints in the historically grown tram network . The term 26er Ring is not a proper name, but has been used colloquially and is often used as an abbreviation or as a delimitation of the Dresden city center.
In detail, the 26er Ring comprises the following streets and squares (clockwise, starting from Dresden-Neustadt train station ): Antonstrasse - Bautzner Strasse - Glacisstrasse - Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Albertbrücke (Elbe crossing) - Sachsenplatz - Sachsenallee - Güntzplatz - Güntzstrasse - Straßburger Platz - Lennéstraße - Gellertstraße - Wiener Straße - Wiener Platz (with tunnel , access in the mentioned direction via Sidonienstraße) - Ammonstraße (tunnel), above ground Wiener Platz - Ammonstraße - Könneritzstraße - Marienbrücke (Elbe crossing) - Antonstraße.
Until 1928, instead of Eliasstrasse (today Güntzstrasse), line 26 ran parallel to Kaulbachstrasse, Cranachstrasse and Schulgutstrasse in the eastern part of the ring, crossing Seidnitzer and Holbeinplatz. None of these streets were taken into account in the reconstruction of the Pirnaische Vorstadt, today only the former transformer house on Seidnitzer Platz (in the green backyard of Seidnitzer Straße) reminds of the historical circumstances.
The main train station and Dresden-Neustadt long-distance train station , the Dresden Mitte S and regional train station and, since 2004, the Freiberger Straße S-Bahn station are located on the Ring . The railway systems in the southern and western parts of the ring run parallel to it for a total of almost 5 kilometers. The Ring crosses the Elbe via the Marienbrücke in the west and the Albertbrücke in the east. In the 1990s, a tunnel was built for road traffic at the main train station or Wiener Platz , which crosses the important B 170 entry and exit road at no level.
The importance of the 26er Ring in today's infrastructure is no longer as great as it was until 1945: the city center is now crossed by better developed streets.
All (regular) current lines of the Dresden tram drive on or cross the ring route in their course. This itself is now used by lines 6 (northern and western part), 13 (eastern part) and 10 (eastern, southern and western part); these lines are shown in yellow in the Dresden transport network . In addition, lines 3, 7, 9 and 11 also use the ring in shorter sections.
The busiest sections are between the main train station and Lennéplatz or Neustadt and Albertplatz train stations , each with three tram lines. There is only one line between Sachsenallee and Straßburger Platz or Hp. Freiberger Straße and the congress center. There are two tram lines on all other routes.
The section on Glacisstrasse between Bautzner Strasse and the (present-day) Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, which was closed in 1949 and then expanded for track reclamation, is no longer used. To replace them, a junction was built into Hoyerswerdaer Strasse at the Bautzner Strasse / Rothenburger Strasse intersection , which is now used by line 6. The fact that it was at all possible to move the ring to a neighboring street at this point is due to the beginnings of the Dresden tram, when there were two competing companies with their own networks .
The section between the main train station (Wiener Platz) and Könneritzstrasse was relocated between Güterbahnhofstrasse and Wiener Platz in 1969 and the section adjoining it to the north along Ammonstrasse in 1990, completely independently of the historical course of the road, on a separate track along the railway systems.
The next inner ring road is the Promenadenring ( Marienstraße / Dr.-Külz-Ring / St. Petersburger Straße / Terrassenufer ), the next outside the outer city ring .
literature
- Werner Kreschnak: History of the Dresden tram . 2nd Edition. Verlag Tribüne Berlin, Berlin 1981.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urban design. State capital Dresden, accessed on October 22, 2019 : "Concept for the lighting design of Dresden city center within the so-called 26er Ring"
- ↑ Karlheinz Kregelin: Dresden: The book of names of streets and squares in the 26er ring . Fly head, 1993, ISBN 3-930195-01-1 .
- ↑ Cycle race paralyzes downtown. In: Saxon newspaper . August 9, 2017, accessed on October 22, 2019 : "Drive to the 26er Ring on the Old Town side of the Elbe"