Bahnhofstrasse (Saarbrücken)
The Bahnhofstrasse Saarbrücken is a pedestrian zone in Saarbrücken . Bahnhofstrasse Saarbrücken begins at St. Johanner Markt and ends at Europa-Galerie Saarbrücken . Its length is about 1.5 km.
location
Bahnhofstrasse begins at St. Johann market and ends at an unnamed place, from which the west Triererstraße , south the Faktoreistraße and north along national route continue to the main station towards. One of the entrances to the Europa-Galerie Saarbrücken (former mining directorate Saarbrücken ) is located on the square . The full length of Bahnhofstrasse is laid out as a pedestrian zone and crosses four streets in its almost straight line from east to west; three of these crossings have traffic lights. The first two crossing streets, Betzenstrasse and Dudweilerstrasse , where the discount corner is located, can be passed through a private underpass, the Discount Passage , without traffic lights on working days during shop opening hours . Most of the streets going left and right in the further course are integrated into the pedestrian zone system of the shopping area in Saarbrücken city center. The streets leading in a southerly direction go either to the Berlin Promenade or to the Saaruferpromenade of the same name, which was completely redesigned in the years 2011-2013 as part of the urban renewal project “Stadtmitte am Fluss”.
history
The Bahnhofstrasse Saarbrücken was built around 1852 as a connection from Saarbrücken Central Station to St. Johanner Markt. Bahnhofstrasse experienced a boom early on. The Saarbrücken Mining Directorate was opened around 1880 . The Saarbrücken tram ran through Bahnhofstrasse since 1890, and later the Riegelsberg tram was also allowed to use the tracks there. At the time of National Socialism , Bahnhofstrasse was called Adolf-Hitler-Strasse. During the Second World War, the once busy Bahnhofstrasse was almost completely devastated.
From 1953 to 1964, line 10 of the Saarbrücken trolleybus drove through Bahnhofstrasse after the Riegelsberg tram was shut down. After 1960, most of the few remaining old buildings were demolished. In 1965 the last tram drove through the district. Since then it has been a pure main thoroughfare. Around 1970 the tram tracks were removed. Since the 1990s, the street gradually became a pedestrian zone and bus routes and traffic were diverted to the nearby Kaiserstrasse . In 2008 one of the few remaining pre-war buildings on Bahnhofstrasse was demolished and replaced by a C&A branch.
In 2016, Bahnhofstrasse was one of the best-visited shopping streets in Germany's medium-sized cities, with 6,580 pedestrians per hour.
literature
- Hans-Christian Herrmann, Ruth Bauer, Kathrin Schmidt (Eds.): Showcase of Life - 150 Years of Bahnhofstrasse Saarbrücken (published by the Saarbrücken City Archives, 3), 2nd revised edition 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinz Janson: Die Riegelsberger Straßenbahn, Sutton Verlag 2011, ISBN 9783866808843 , p. 64
- ↑ Helmut Enders, Saarland: earlier and today, Cologne 2008, p. 43
- ↑ magnetic Bahnhofstrasse in saarbruecker-zeitung.de
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 6.1 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 38.9 ″ E