Avenue de Friedland

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Avenue de Friedland
location
Arrondissement 8th.
quarter Champs-Élysées
Beginning 177 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
49 Rue Washington
The End Place Charles-de-Gaulle
morphology
length 630 m
width 40 m
history
designation March 2, 1864
Original names Boulevard Beaujon
Coding
Paris 3876

Avenue de Friedland [ avəˌnyde friːed'-lɑ̃nt ] is the street name of a 630-meter-long street in the 8th arrondissement of Paris , which is one of the 12 streets starting from Place Charles-de-Gaulle in a star shape .

location

The street is the extension of Boulevard Haussmann and leads from Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and Rue Washington to Place Charles-de-Gaulle .

The street can be reached by metro via the Charles de Gaulle - Étoile and Miromesnil stations.

Name origin

Initially, until March 1864, the street was called Boulevard Beaujon (like Boulevard Haussmann ) after the financier Nicolas Beaujon, who owned a house here at No. 28. It was given its current name on March 2, 1864. It is named after the Battle of Friedland on June 14, 1807, in which the French, under Napoleon Bonaparte , defeated the Russians.

history

When it was built from 1814 onwards, the city council planned a street width of 40 meters, which exceeded many Parisian boulevards . The first section was opened on August 13, 1854 between Rue de Tilsitt and what was then Place de l'Étoile , the last section opened on October 17, 1857 between Rue Washington and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré . The opening took place on the basis of a decree by the Paris city ​​architect Georges-Eugène Haussmann . After the inauguration of the triumphal arch by the French King Louis Philippe took place on July 29, 1836 , the order was issued on August 13, 1854 to radically rebuild the square. As a result, the Avenue de Friedland only came into its own as one of the star-shaped streets leading to the Place Charles-de-Gaulle.

Buildings

  • Avenue de Friedland - painting by Gustave Loiseau (1931)

  • Avenue de Friedland 33 - Royal Hotel (around 1907)

  • Avenue de Friedland - view from the Triumphal Arch (left), right the Avenue des Champs-Élysées (August 2005)

  • Avenue de Friedland 27 - Chamber of Commerce entrance (October 2016)

  • Avenue de Friedland 27 - Chamber of Commerce (October 2016)

  • Avenue de Friedland 23 - Eglise du Saint-Sacrement (June 2015)

  • Avenue de Friedland 40 - Hotel Napoleon (October 2008)

  • Avenue de Friedland - Monument to Honoré de Balzac (October 2016)

  • Avenue de Friedland - Palais Salomon Rothschild (October 2016)

No. 12 is the former Hôtel particulier (town villa) of Salomon Rothschild (built between 1873 and 1882) with a 4,000 m² park in front of it, and No. 27 has been the seat of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 1822, the former Hôtel particulier des Félix-Nicolas Potocki (1878-1884). While No. 12 was built by Léon Ohnet and added to the list of historic monuments in March 2005, No. 27 was designed by the architect Jules Reboul. The Église du Saint-Sacrement at No. 23 is a Catholic church , which could be obtained in 1876 by the "Brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament" ( French Pères du Saint-Sacrement ) and was considered part of the neighboring Hôtel Potocki. There are two historic hotels on the street. No. 33 is the Le Royal Hôtel , built in 1906, and No. 40 is the Hôtel Napoléon , built in 1928 . On November 23, 1902, on the corner of rue Balzac, a monument created by Alexandre Falguière in April 1899 by Honoré de Balzac , which they preferred to a "monstrous" Balzac statue by Auguste Rodin .

location

The Avenue de Friedland is located in Paris's 8th district and connects the Boulevard Haussmann to the Place Charles de Gaulle , from there forms Avenue Foch its western extension. It is served by Métro Paris by metro lines 1 , 2 and 6 through the Charles de Gaulle - Étoile stop .

Web links

Commons : Avenue de Friedland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Ballantyne, Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures , 2010, p. 106
  2. ↑ Günter Butzer / Manuela Günter, Kulturelles Vergessen: Medien-Rituale-Orte , 2004, p. 45

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '  N , 2 ° 18'  E