Beethovenplatz (Hanau)
The Beethovenplatz in Hanau is a roundabout that was created in 1926/27 at the intersection between Kastanienallee and Hochstädter Landstraße.
Traffic importance
At that time, the aim was to develop new and existing traffic axes in order to relieve the Hanau city center from the emerging motorized traffic. Roundabouts should be built at the intersection between the outer ring roads and the arterial roads. This also included Beethovenplatz. The project was implemented under the administration of Mayor Kurt Blaum . From 1928 on, Beethovenplatz also formed the turning loop for line 1 of the Hanau tram .
However, the importance of the square in terms of traffic was greatly reduced when today's Bundesstraße 8/40 was built tangentially in 1935 just under 50 m away from Beethovenplatz . This street and the square broke through the originally continuous axis of the Kastanienallee coming from Philippsruhe Castle after about two thirds of its course and thus superimposed the baroque street concept on the western edge of Hanau.
Urban planning
In terms of urban planning , the square should meet high demands. It represented Hanau's gate to the west, i.e. the representative city entrance for traffic coming from Frankfurt am Main , as well as the urban counterpoint to the roundabout around the honorary pillar on the eastern edge of the city .
layout
The center of Beethovenplatz is a round lawn with a diameter of 40 m, in the middle of which the Schwanenbrunnen (formerly: Kanaltorplatz ) has been placed since 1976 . The square is framed by uniform, four-story residential buildings. The concept of the square and the development essentially comes from Georg Clormann . Balconies that encompass the corners of the building, windows in corner positions and other elements of expressionist building are decisive for the design . The complex was evidently created under the influence of the innovative housing developments in Frankfurt a. M., which was designed there according to plans by Ernst May . This development, which was very progressive for the time, found no successor in Hanau.
meaning
The Beethovenplatz is as a whole , and the buildings surrounding it as individual cultural monuments , cultural monuments based on the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
literature
- Gerhard Bott : "Modern building" in the city of Hanau 1918–1933. "Demolition crime" and reconstruction after 1945 . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (ed.): Gerhard Bott 90 . Cocon, Hanau 2017. ISBN 978-3-86314-361-9 , pp. 85-113.
- Martin Hoppe, Hanauer street names, Hanau 1991. ISBN 3-87627-426-5
- Caroline Krumm, cultural monuments in Hessen - city of Hanau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hessen, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '35 " N , 8 ° 53' 38.8" E