Hanau riots
The Hanauer riots were political unrest in those days to Electorate of Hesse belonging Hanau .
In the course of the July Revolution of 1830 , the bourgeoisie revolted in Hanau on September 24th against the neo-absolutist form of government and the failed customs and economic policy of Elector Wilhelm II. In the next wave of the revolution in November, the proletarian lower class rose because of rising food prices and is now fought by the civil guard . In Hanau, small, one-piece buns were known colloquially as rioters for a long time .
In order to employ troublemakers and thus keep them away from revolutionary hustle and bustle, a public employment project for the "Hanau rioters" initiated the drainage of the Großer Rohr wetland area outside the city gates . The necessary drainage ditch from the swamp area to the Main cost 8,000 guilders . It was (initially not officially) called the "Krawallgraben" , which is reflected in the street name Am Krawallgraben , which was introduced later and still exists today . The ditch formed the boundary between Hanau and Großauheim .
In 1859 the ditch was expanded further. Perhaps it was already being laid underground by then. In 1953, the now functionless canal accommodated a high-voltage cable over 2.3 km to the new Hanau-Ost substation . The street named after the ditch opens up a residential area between Hanau's main train station and an industrial area adjacent to the Hanau Main Harbor .
literature
- Martin Hoppe : Hanauer street names , Hanau 1991. ISBN 3-87627-426-5 , p. 31.
- Oskar Schenk: About the “Hanau riot” and the riot ditch . In: Hanau city and country. A home book for school and home . Hanau 1954, pp. 378-380.
- Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978, p. 777.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 18.9 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 26.4 ″ E