Graf-Adolf-Platz
| Graf-Adolf-Platz | |
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 Graf-Adolf-Platz, view from the south side |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Dusseldorf |
| District | City center |
| Confluent streets | Kasernenstrasse , Breite Strasse , Graf-Adolf-Strasse , Friedrichstrasse , Elisabethstrasse , Haroldstrasse |
| Buildings | CAP 15 |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Space design | Tram stop |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | approx. 10,000 m² |
The Graf-Adolf-Platz in Dusseldorf is one of the major transportation hubs of the city and used to be the starting point for the long-distance travel.
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history
Graf-Adolf-Platz was built from 1902 in the area of the parade ground of the previous barracks and the abandoned Düsseldorf train station of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , formerly the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , after the new central Düsseldorf train station was built around two kilometers east had been. Simultaneously with Graf-Adolf-Platz, a botanical garden with the "Kugelspielerin", a statue by the sculptor Walter Schott , was built to the east near the Königsallee .
The square was named in honor of Count Adolf von Berg , who made Düsseldorf a city in 1288. After 1891, the newly created eastern extension of the square, which was laid out as a street on the track of the Bergisch-Märkischen and Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , was given the name Graf-Adolf-Straße . From 1901 the square was the starting point for train journeys to Uerdingen, Lörick, Krefeld ( K-Bahn ) and Neuss.
Until 1933, only the undeveloped area north of Haroldstrasse between Breite Strasse, a southern extension of the western Königsallee, was called Graf-Adolf-Platz. Haroldstrasse ended at Königsallee and the eastern extension of Thurmstrasse from Friedrichstrasse was the western beginning of Graf-Adolf-Strasse. It was not until Graf-Adolf-Platz was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Platz from 1933 to 1945 that the entire area between Elisabethstrasse and Königsallee was assigned to the square and Thurmstrasse was removed. In the city's address book from 1934, Thurmstrasse is no longer listed for the first time, and houses No. 1 to 8 there are listed under Adolf-Hitler-Platz. Graf-Adolf-Platz also currently includes this entire area as it was redefined in 1933.
On July 7, 1937, the oval pavilion in the middle of the square was inaugurated, which still exists today and serves as a restaurant. The former bus station no longer exists today, but coaches still sometimes pick up travelers in the parking bays.
Today's meaning
The main train station is no longer located on Graf-Adolf-Platz, but at the eastern end of Graf-Adolf-Straße, the former station building and the tracks can no longer be found.
The square is now crossed by several bus and tram lines as well as around 45,000 cars a day, and it is the stop of the Düsseldorf light rail network . On one side it borders the Kö , on the other side the Schwanenspiegel park with the Ständehaus .
The GAP 15 office tower , built in 2005, is outstanding , and the north facade of the former telegraph office with the columnar light sculpture in front of it is also worth mentioning.
Trivia
Post-war joke: An old lady wants to take the tram “to Adolf-Hitler-Platz”, is instructed by the driver that it is now called “Graf-Adolf-Platz” and is happy: “That” has Hitler “but also deserves ”.
Web links
- History of the Düsseldorf tram
- History workshop Düsseldorf
- Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf: Graf-Adolf-Platz with historical photos
Individual evidence
- ^ In: Report on the status and the administration of the community affairs of the city of Düsseldorf . Period: April 1, 1901 to March 31, 1902 . S. [150] 144.
- ^ In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf. Third part . 1934, p. [827] 12.
- ↑ Horst Tietz : After-dinner speech . In: Horst G. Zimmer (Ed.): Group Theory, Algebra, and Number Theory . Colloquium in Memory of Hans Zassenhaus held in Saarbrücken, Germany June 4-5 1993, Berlin / New York 1996, page XIX Google Books digitized
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 7 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 34 ″ E