Mayor-Smidt-Strasse (Bremerhaven)

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Mayor-Smidt-Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremerhaven
Mayor-Smidt-Strasse
“The Citizens” at night
Basic data
city Bremerhaven
district Middle (Bremerhaven)
Created around 1850 and 1896
Cross streets Linzer Str., Obere Bürger, Mittelstr., Kirchenstr., Mühlenst., Keilstr., Preßburger Str., Lloydstr., Sonnenstr., Schifferstr., Bogenstr., Querstr., Bgm.-Martin-Donandt-Platz, Schleusenstr., Sommerstr., Am grid, Dresdener Str., Waldemar-Becke-Platz, Kleine Str., Hardenbergstr., Steinstr., Kantstr., Marcusstr., Flea Market, Barkhausenstr., Rickmersstr.
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design Pedestrian zone or two-lane street
Technical specifications
Street length 2300 meters
Bremerhaven City Theater
Mayor Smidt memorial
North Sea Hotel
24–30: Weser-Elbe-Sparkasse
65A: Mayor Smidt Memorial Church and Geeste
65: Pastor's and Congregation House of the Great Church
Columbus Center behind the old port
101: Corner house Bürger / Lloydstr. with Café National
133: formerly the House of Crafts
162: General local health insurance
Residential building group at Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse 173
187: Group of houses
217: Havenhostel, formerly Rotersand barracks
Customs office Rotersand

The Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse is a historic street in Bremerhaven , Mitte district . It is popularly often referred to as "The Citizens" for short.
As the main shopping street, it leads in a south-north direction from the Karlsburg street to Franziusstraße and the Roter Sand customs office.

It is divided into the sub-areas:

  • Theodor-Heuss-Platz to Lloydstraße as a pedestrian zone
  • Lloydstrasse to Bürgermeister-Martin-Donandt-Platz and
  • Bürgermeister-Martin-Donandt-Platz to Franziusstraße / Zollamt Roter Sand as the former Kaiserstraße.

The cross streets were named Theodor-Heuss-Platz after the first Federal President Theodor Heuss , Linzer Straße, Obere Bürger as the official name for the pedestrian zone on and on the upper floor of the Columbus Center Bremerhaven , Mittelstraße after its location around 1850, as the first three cross streets Kirchenstraße after the Great Church there, Mühlenstraße, Keilstraße (?), Preßburger Straße, Lloydstraße after the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd , Sonnenstraße , Schifferstraße as a harbor motif, Bogenstraße after the large arches that lead it around a quarter, cross street, mayor's Martin-Donandt-Platz after the Mayor of Bremen Martin Donandt , (formerly from 1905 Cecilienstraße) Schleusenstraße 1897 after the Große Kaiserschleuse, Sommerstraße (1903), Am grid (1908), Dresdener Straße, Waldemar-Becke-Platz after the city director and Lord Mayor of Bremerhaven Waldemar Becké , Kleine Straße (1903), which is really very small, Hardenbergstraße after the pr Eussian statesman Karl August von Hardenberg , Steinstraße after the Prussian statesman Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein , Kantstraße after the philosopher Immanuel Kant , Marcusstraße after the Bremen mayor Victor Marcus , flea market after the market that takes place here, Barkhausenstraße after the Bremen mayor Carl Georg Barkhausen , Rickmersstrasse after the Bremen shipping family : Rickmer Clasen Rickmers , Andreas Rickmers , Wilhelm Rickmers , Paul Rickmers , Robert Rickmers and their Rickmers shipping company .

history

Surname

The Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse was named after Bremen's famous mayor Johann Smidt (1773–1857), the founder of Bremerhaven . The northern part of the street was called Kaiserstraße from 1896 until the 1950s. The southern part of the street was initially called Leher Straße until 1864.

development

After Bremerhaven was founded (1827), the old port was built up to 1830 and the new port from 1847 to 1852 . Bremerhaven had around 4,000 inhabitants in 1850, 10,800 in 1871 and around 20,000 in 1900. The settlement increased rapidly from 1840 to 1870 and a road network was built parallel to the ports. The border to Lehe was at today's Waldemar-Becke-Platz.

The Protestant Great Church was consecrated in 1855. From 1902 to 1907, apartments for the workers were built on Kaiserstrasse. One of the first houses at the northern end of Kaiserstrasse and the corner of Rickmersstrasse was built by Heirich Spilke around 1900 as the Rother Sand hotel and restaurant ; the name was retained. The post office was located in the northern part of the street since 1939 (at that time Kaiserstraße)

During the Second World War , almost all buildings in the southern street area were destroyed by bombs. Reconstruction began in the late 1950s, initially with the residential and commercial buildings and with the residential buildings in the neighboring streets between Geeste and the Bürger . The reconstruction of the Mayor Smidt Memorial Church (Great Church) was from 1958 to 1960. The Columbus Center was built from 1973 to 1982 in two large construction phases. In 1973 the nearby German Maritime Museum was built and from 1975 the expansion of the nearby Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences . Since 1982 no trams have been running through the citizens . Through various expansions in the 1980s until around 2005, the redesign to a pedestrian zone in the southern area took place. a. according to plans by PAS Darmstadt ( Jochem Jourdan , Müller, Berghof).

The scene and pub district in the northern part of the street between Martin-Donandt-Platz and Waldemar-Becke-Platz and a few side streets is colloquially referred to as Alte Bürger .

traffic

There was a horse-drawn tram since 1881 . From 1898 to 1908 it was converted into an electric tram company with up to five lines. Lines 2 and 3 ran here until 1982; the latter only until 1964.

Today (2019) the bus lines 501 (Schnellbus: Leherheide West - Lehe - Stadtmitte - Hauptbahnhof - Grünhöfe - Wulsdorf), 502 (Leherheide West - Lehe - Stadtmitte - Hauptbahnhof - Grünhöfe), 505 (Wulsdorf - Hauptbahnhof - Rotersand - Stadtmitte - Langen - Debstedt ), 506 (Wulsdorf - Hauptbahnhof - Stadtmitte - Rotersand - Langen), 508 (Klinikum Bremerhaven - Hauptbahnhof - Stadtmitte - Lehe - Leherheide West), 509 (Surheide - Hauptbahnhof - Stadtmitte - Lehe - Imsum) and 511 (express bus: Leherheide Ost - Rotersand - Stadtmitte - Wulsdorf) and the night lines ML and NL.

Buildings and facilities

There are mostly four to six-story office, residential and commercial buildings on the street.

Architectural monuments

Notable buildings

  • Karlsburg 1: Bremerhaven Art Museum from 2007 based on plans by the HKP architects' office in Hanover with the advice of Peter Webe
  • Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1: Bremerhaven City Theater
  • No. 1: 6-gesch. Nordsee Hotel from 1957 based on plans by Karl Franzius for the city and operated for a long time by the hotelier Naber.
  • No. 7: 5-sch. Office building with the Deutsche Bank branch
  • No. 10: 5-sch. Saturn department store
  • No. 24–30: 5-sch. Bank of the Weser-Elbe Sparkasse
  • No. 27: 4-sch. Residential and commercial building with the Sparda Bank branch
  • No. 45: 3-sch. Pastor's and parish house for the Mayor Smidt Memorial Church from 1953 based on plans by Karl Franzius and Otto Schildt (Bremerhaven)
  • Upper Citizens: Columbus Center from 1975 to 1978 and until 1982 according to plans by Peter Weber and Gestering (Bremerhaven) for the Neue Heimat . It consists of two parking decks, two storeys as a shopping center with around 75 shops and restaurants and three high-rise apartment blocks of up to 88 meters with 555 apartments.
  • No. 47: 2-sch. Pavilion construction with cafe
  • No. 50-64: 3-sch. Karstadt department store from 1960 based on plans by Walter Brune (Düsseldorf)
  • No. 66: 4-sch. C&A department store from around 1960 with a later addition and later renovation
  • No. 74-76: 5-gesch. Residential, office and commercial building from 1960, formerly also the Nordsee-Zeitung and its printing shop
  • No. 101: 7-gesch. 1950s office building with the central Café National .
  • No. 116-126: 7- to 8-sch. House from 1954 with arcades (nickname Sing-Sing ) based on plans by Karl Franzius
  • No. 158-160: 5-ed. Residential, office and commercial building
  • No. 162-166: 5-cut. Office building, formerly the seat of the AOK, today the seat of the Institute for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Bremerhaven; see also above
  • No. 170: 5-sch. Residential, office and commercial building from around 1920/1930 with the Lloyd pharmacy
  • No. 174 to 182: five colored, 4-tiered Houses with distinctive, larger gables dormer
  • No. 224-246: 5-ed. Housing estate from 1935/39 based on plans by Hans Scharoun for the Bremerhaven housing cooperative
  • No. 200: The piccolo teatro-haventheater has existed as a room theater since 2011
  • No. 207: Rotersand sports hall
Cardanic world globe
Bow wave
Anti-war memorial
Shipyard workers
Anti-war memorial

Art objects, memorial stones

See also list of monuments and sculptures in Bremerhaven

  • Theodor-Heuss-Platz: Mayor Smidt monument from 1888 by the sculptor Werner Stein
  • No. 7: Cardan globe with Bremerhaven's shipping connections, donated by the Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft .
  • At No. 10 to 45: The middle of the street, bronze bow wave from Bremerhaven from 2002 is a fountain sculpture by Norbert Marten and Christel Mandos-Feldmann. It consists of the ship's bow with a female figurehead , two laterally offset bow waves over which the water flows and other maritime elements.
  • At No. 65A: Memorial in memory of all victims of National Socialism (anti-war memorial) from 1986 by the sculptor Waldemar Otto
  • At No. 65A: shipyard workers, bronze ensemble from around 2000 by Waldemar Otto
  • No. 133: Memorial for Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (gymnastics father Jahn) in front of the former House of Crafts at Martin-Donandt-Platz 22, from 1910 by the sculptor Heinz Lange.
  • Corner of Deichstraße : stone stele as a reminder of the sculptor symposium in Bremerhaven in 1989 by the sculptor Thomas Kaufhold
  • Stumbling blocks in Bremerhaven
    • No. 45a: for Hartmann Raschke (* 1917), arrested in 1939 as a resistance fighter, he survived
    • No. 57: for Minna Rattay (1902–1943) and Paul Rattay (* 1904), both in the resistance and arrested in 1939, murdered in Auschwitz , he was liberated in several concentration camps last in Flossenbürg , 1945 and the consequences in July Died in 1945
    • No. 67: Theophil Henning; no further details in the list
    • No. 174: for Irma Kahn (1898–?) And Isidor Kahn (1865–?); Fates unknown since 1939
    • No. 202: for Moses Kirchheimer (* 1858); 1939 escaped to the USA

literature

  • Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991 . Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
  • Evelyn Sjovall ao: Kaiserstrasse, a street tells . Publishing house Ditzen, Bremerhaven 1981.
  • Wolfgang Brönner: Bremerhaven. Architectural monuments of a port city. Bremen 1976.
  • Werner Kirschstein: Seaside City of Bremerhaven. Historic buildings of a port city. Bremerhaven 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Thätjenhorst and A. Duntze: Map of the area of ​​the free Hanseatic city of Bremen. 1851., here edition. 1860.
  2. ^ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven route networks (ÖPNV). Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Monument database of the LfD: 1552
  4. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 1530
  5. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 1531
  6. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 1532
  7. ^ Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992.
  8. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3275
  9. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3276
  10. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3039
  11. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3025
  12. ^ A place of contemplation and peace in the heart of Bremerhaven. The design of the square at the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche - restoration of the church as the culmination of the construction project . Nordsee-Zeitung, May 17, 1952.
  13. ^ The Jahn memorial in Bremerhaven-Mitte. An honor with obstacles. In: Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt. 2009.

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 4 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 21"  E