Bahnhofstrasse (Heilbronn)
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| View of Bahnhofstrasse with the Neckarturm , Villa Münzing and Villa Adelmann |
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| place | Heilbronn |
| District | Heilbronn |
| Newly designed | 2001 |
| Hist. Names | Landturmstrasse, Landturmweg |
| Connecting roads | Frankfurter Strasse, Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke |
| Cross streets | Weststrasse, Olgastrasse, Kranenstrasse |
| Places | Willy-Brandt-Platz, Kurt-Schumacher-Platz |
| Numbering system | Orientation numbering |
| Buildings | Old Heilbronn train station , old post office at the train station , railway service building , new main post office |
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| User groups | Car traffic , pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 750 m |
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 34 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 36 ″ E
The Bahnhofstrasse is a street in Heilbronn . It connects the Heilbronn city center east of the Neckar with the Heilbronn main station in the station suburb west of the river.
Location and traffic
The Bahnhofstrasse runs in the Heilbronn Bahnhofsvorstadt in an east-west direction. It starts at the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke, which continues the Kaiserstraße , over the Neckar. Immediately after the bridge, Bahnhofstrasse begins at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz with the confluence with Kranenstrasse . Then it strives directly towards the main station , bends at the station forecourt to the tracks to the south-west and finally ends in Frankfurter Strasse . At the station forecourt, Weststrasse joins Bahnhofstrasse, which is used by the Heilbronn tram in addition to road traffic . Between the roundabout at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz and the train station, Bahnhofstraße is part of the through-town of Kreisstraße 9557 in the course of the street between Kranenstraße and Weststraße.
history
The Bahnhofstrasse goes back to a long-distance trade route to the west that used to start from the Heilbronn Neckar crossing. In the course of the history of the city of Heilbronn , the western bridgehead of the Heilbronn Neckar Bridge was located here, which led over the main arm of the Neckar, which was moved to the Heilbronn city walls due to the Neckar privilege in 1333. At the time of the Thirty Years' War , Swedish troops built a massive fortification in the form of a crescent-shaped star -shaped hill directed westwards , which was demolished again in 1764.
In today's station suburbs, apart from a few buildings at the bridge gate, there were only gardens in the early 19th century. The Landturmweg followed the course of today's Bahnhofstrasse . With the opening of the Württemberg Northern Railway Stuttgart – Heilbronn and the construction of the first Heilbronn station (now the old station) west of the Neckar in 1848/49, the street became more important and was renamed Landturmstrasse . The old Neckar Bridge, which is slightly offset to the south from the station, was replaced in 1867 by a new steel arch bridge exactly in the street alignment.
Due to the expansion of the railway connections, a new station building was built a few hundred meters west of the previous station from 1873 , which made it necessary to further expand the street, which was called Bahnhofstrasse from 1877 . While the rails and railway station facilities, the Wilhelmskanal opened in 1821 and the adjoining Heilbronn harbors lay north of the street , the south side of the street developed into a noble villa street for the city's merchants and manufacturers. The representative villas with elaborate street facades made of Heilbronn sandstone were followed by extensive, later largely overbuilt gardens in the south. At the station, the representative station square with a monumental fountain surrounded by lanterns was created in 1887/88.
The station suburb was almost completely built on by around 1905. The Royal , Central, Vaterland, Elefant, Kronprinz and Reichshof hotels were located on the station square . As one of the last buildings, the post office No. 2 at the train station. From 1897 until the end of operations in 1955, the Heilbronn tram connected the main station via Bahnhofstrasse with the city center.
The destruction of the Second World War made it necessary to rebuild the train station and left only a few of the villas on the south side of the street, namely the Villa Münzing (Bahnhofstraße 9), the facade of the Villa Adelmann (Bahnhofstraße 11) and the facade of the Bahnhofstraße 27 building. In the 1980s and 1990s, new commercial buildings, a new main post office (Bahnhofstraße 12) and a tower-like high-rise, the Neckarturm , were built on both sides of the street at the east end of the street (Bahnhofstraße 1). Since 2001 the inner city route of the Heilbronn light rail has been running through Bahnhofstrasse. A striking stop with a glass roof was built for them on the station forecourt. Another stop is at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz. The station forecourt was officially named Willy-Brandt-Platz on December 18, 2013 .
Development
On the north side of Bahnhofstrasse there are now publicly used buildings such as the first Heilbronn train station , the post office at the train station and the former service building of the railway as well as the new main post office. On the south side of the street are u. a. Listed buildings such as Villa Münzing (house number 9) and Bahnhofstrasse 27 . The Hotel Royal at Bahnhofstrasse 33 was demolished in the late 1950s, and from 1952 its leaseholder built the Insel-Hotel at the east end of Bahnhofstrasse on Hefenweiler .
Heilbronn main station
The third station building of Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof, built in 1958, was built on the foundations of the second building, which was destroyed in 1944.
Service building of the railway
The service building of the railway is a neo-Gothic , three-storey building, which was built by the Royal Württemberg Railway Inspectorate in 1902 according to plans by the architect Hartmann.
Bahnhofstrasse 27
Gideon Bachmann's parents' house at Bahnhofsstraße 27 was built in 1874 by foreman Christian Zillhardt in the neo-renaissance style. In the main floor on the first floor is an over the door to the balcony, the head of Mercury to be seen.
Hotel / Cafe Royal
The building was built in 1904/1905 as the Hotel Royal on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Roßkampffstrasse in the style of eclecticism ( neo-renaissance and neo-Gothic). After the seizure of power, Willy Mayer (1907–1978) leased the hotel, which was then called Hotel Bundschuh and later Hotel Königshof . In the post-war period, the building was rebuilt true to the original up to the second floor, but was demolished between 1958 and 1960.
New main post
The new and temporarily so named main post office at Bahnhofstrasse 12 was opened in 1990. Originally, the building was largely used by the client, the former Deutsche Bundespost , himself. After the privatization of the Bundespost in 1995 and the subsequent corporate changes, the building now only has a Postbank finance center on the ground floor , where Deutsche Post services (letters and parcels) are also offered. All other building areas are now used as shops, offices and commercial space.
The three-storey, angular structure under a gently sloping pitched roof has a total floor space of 18,000 square meters. It has a facade made of facing masonry, which is partly structured with natural stone bands and borders. Arcades facing the street are arranged on the ground floor. The building shows stepped gables on the front sides . The architecture office AP Plan Mory-Osterwalder-Vielmo GmbH , Stuttgart, based in Berlin had built the building.
In front of the building is the sculpture Postache, made of East Tyrolean serpentine stone, by Ernst Günter Herrmann , which was donated by the Federal Post Office in 1990.
old trainstation
The old station is a late classicist building built by Karl Etzel in 1848/49 . It was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in 1948. Since the renovation in 2004, it has housed the Kolping Society .
Old post office
The former post office at the train station was built in the neo-renaissance style in 1906 in the immediate vicinity of the train station and survived the two world wars unscathed.
Villa Münzing
The listed Villa Münzing is located at Bahnhofstrasse 9, which was built in 1896 by Ernst Walter and Karl Luckscheiter for the manufacturer Albert Münzing .
Villa Adelmann
The neo-renaissance villa of the merchant Eugen Adelmann, which was built in 1870 according to plans by the Stuttgart architect Robert von Reinhardt , is located right next to the Villa Münzing at Bahnhofstrasse 11 . The house now houses part of the Kolping Educational Center.
literature
- Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Heilbronn district . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 71-74 .
- Gerhard Schwinghammer and Reiner Makowski: The Heilbronner street names . Edited by the city of Heilbronn. 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , pp. 34-36.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtbahn Aktuell. (PDF, 763 kB) Stadtwerke Heilbronn GmbH, July 12, 2001, archived from the original on June 5, 2015 ; Retrieved April 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach (ed.): Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures. (Volume 1.) Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1966 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn, 14), p. 50.
- ↑ a b Almost all departments under one roof. Oberpostdirektion handed over the DM 47 million project in Heilbronn to its destination . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . No. 149 , June 30, 1990, pp. 5 .
- ↑ According to the online presence of Deutsche Post , Postfinder → Branches → Heilbronn, Bahnhofstr. 12 (search input) . Retrieved April 19, 2013.
- ↑ cid: Sculpture, the supplier of ideas, The "mail item" . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 279 , December 3, 1994, pp. 18 .
