Andreasstrasse (Erfurt)
The Andreasstraße is a street in the old town of Erfurt and as the main street of the Andreasviertel it connects the Domplatz in the south with the Nordhäuser Straße at the Andreastor in the north.
history
Andreasstrasse was founded in 1322 as platea apud sa. Andream first mentioned. Initially, only the northern section between Marbacher Gasse and Andreastor was called that, while the southern, slightly widened part (up to the confluence of Marktstrasse ) was called Rübenmarkt . After the destruction of the Severiviertel in 1813, the Domplatz was extended to the north, so that the southern part of the beet market opened up in the Domplatz, while the northern part came from the Pargamentergasse to Andreasstraße. In the course of the demolition, the Andreastor at the end of the street was demolished in 1882.
traffic
Until the 1970s, Andreasstrasse was the main road from Erfurt to the northwest in the direction of Nordhausen and Mühlhausen . With the traffic calming in the city center, it lost this function and is mainly used by local residents. In addition, trams have been running on Andreasstrasse since 1883 . It is an important cycling route between the city center and the university .
Development
Andreasstrasse is only continuously built on on its east side. The buildings are mainly early modern houses. This is where the Andreas Church stands , the quarter's Protestant parish church, which was built in the Gothic style. At the confluence of the Große Ackerhofgasse is the Andreashof , an old industrial building that has been converted into a senior citizens' home.
On the west side is the Petersberg Citadel and the slope edge of the Petersberg. After the defeat of the fortress, the building of the regional court was built on Domplatz and the Erfurt prison was built in brick on Andreasstraße . The latter was used by the Ministry for State Security as a remand prison from 1949 to 1989 , making the term “Andreasstrasse” a synonym for the neighboring Stasi headquarters and the prison. At the beginning of December 1989, these Stasi buildings were the first in the GDR to be occupied by demonstrators. Since 2012, the Andreasstrasse memorial and educational center of the Ettersberg Foundation has been located in the former prison with an exhibition on the history of the house and the Stasi in Thuringia (Andreasstrasse 37).
The building of the former "Stasi headquarters of the district of Erfurt", the current Thuringian State Police Directorate and "Police Directorate Erfurt" (Andreasstraße 38), is located to the north of the former prison. It is an elongated, representative building with 34 axes, 4 floors, an extended attic and basement and two large corner towers. Under the eaves, above the main portal, the year "1949" is misleadingly; the building - in a simple neo-baroque style - dates from the Nazi era . Construction began as a planned authority building in 1937/1938; photos from 1944 show it in full extent including its two corner towers (four-storey, octagonal floor plan, curved roof hoods). The architect was Wilhelm Pook .
Further north (Andreasstrasse 38a) there is a building complex belonging to Deutsche Telekom AG . It emerged from a large prefabricated building from the GDR era, which was significantly upgraded from the outside after the fall of the Wall and expanded with a supplementary building. To the north of these buildings follow stately residential buildings from the Wilhelminian era, which were renovated after the fall of the Wall.
In 2012 and 2013, Andreasstrasse was extensively renovated, and in this context a cycle path was built out of town. An innovative lighting concept based on LED technology was implemented. In 2013, this lighting design was one of the winners of the “Municipalities in a new light” competition organized by the BMBF .
literature
- Walter Blaha : Erfurt street names in their historical development . Publishing house Thuringia, Erfurt 1992, ISBN 3-86087-054-8 .
Web links
supporting documents
- ^ Kerstin Richter and Rudolf Benl: Erfordia turrita. Door-rich Erfurt . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2013. ISBN 978-3-95400-248-1 . Pp. 30, 32. 60, 61
- ↑ Winner BMBF competition “Communities in a new light”. BMBF, accessed on June 24, 2014 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 50.1 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 19.6 ″ E