Berger Allee (Düsseldorf)

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Berger Allee
coat of arms
Street in Düsseldorf
Berger Allee
The picture shows a view from the north of Berger Allee to the south of the former Vodafone high-rise
Basic data
place Dusseldorf
District Carlstadt
Cross streets Thomastraße with Carlstor
Buildings Behrensbau , Vodafone high-rise , state house , city ​​museum
use
User groups Car traffic, cyclists and passers-by
Road design the beginning of the avenue is a pedestrian area from Bäckerstraße to house no
Technical specifications
Street length ≈480 m

The Allee is a street in the district Carlstadt North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Dusseldorf . The forerunner of the avenue was a path and later street that originally led from the "Berger Pforte" in the southwest of the city to the settlements of Bilk , Hamm and Volmerswerth in the south in front of the city fortifications . These settlements were already part of Düsseldorf at the end of the Middle Ages .

Name and location

The name of Berger Allee does not refer to the former city gate " Berger Tor ". The names of both the Tor and the Allee were derived from a "Berger Hof" that was located in the south of the city. This farm was mentioned in a document from 1408. The "Hof" belonged to the estate "Die Zwei Berge", which was mentioned in the founding document of 1288 for the city of Düsseldorf. The avenue lies between the banks of the Rhine with the “Mannesmannufer” promenade and the Spee'schen Graben . The avenue begins in the north as a continuation of Citadellstrasse at Bäckerstrasse and ends in the south at Horionplatz.

history

The beginning of an original path, which was later expanded into a road and which began at the southwestern city gate, was adapted over the centuries to both the location of the city gate and the city fortifications. The latter was expanded and rebuilt more often because the location of the street had to correspond to these changes. Until about the middle of the 16th century, the street began at the "Berger Pforte", which was at the southern end of the inner-city Berger Straße. After the construction of the new and much more southerly Berger Tor around 1620 with the completion of the “Citadelle”, the street was the southern continuation of Citadellstraße. The road was converted into an avenue with the beginning of the development of the southern areas in front of the old city area and the redesign of the Spee'schen Graben from the 1830s. Poplars were used for the first planting of the avenue . 18 of these now rotten trees were replaced by 22 linden trees in the mid-1880s .

The construction of houses on the avenue did not begin until the beginning of the 1850s. In an address book from 1850 under house number 1288 (later No. 2) an inhabited house in the area of ​​the street "Carlsthor" on Berger Allee was listed. In 1859 houses were only built on plots 2 to 8 on the east side (ditch side) from the cross street “Carlstor”, while the remaining plots up to Haroldstraße 10 to 16 were still undeveloped. On the west side (Rhine side) on the properties up to Neusser Straße No. 29 there were only inhabited houses at No. 1 (Am Berger Tor) and No. 15 (Haroldstraße area). On the other properties, which were mostly owned by the city, there were storage areas. Furthermore, at No. 5 and No. 15 coal dealers and at No. 19 a building materials dealer had their warehouses.

In 1870 the buildings hadn't changed much compared to 1859. The east side of the avenue from Carlsthor to Haroldstrasse was completely built on. On the west side, other coal traders also had their warehouses on lots 1 and 11. No. 15 had been converted into a warehouse for hardware. Residential houses had also been built on lots 5, 11 and 19. The situation with regard to development and use of many properties as storage areas or locations for warehouses hardly changed until 1880, only the houses at numbers 5 and 12 were now uninhabited again. The predominant use of the land on the west side of the avenue during this time as storage space can also be seen in the rental income for the city. In 1882, the city's budget listed income for the campsites on Berger Allee in the amount of “Mark 12,540.00”.

Behrensbau, view from the southwest (Mannesmannufer)

Even up to 1890 there were only a few changes in terms of development and use as storage areas. In addition, inhabited houses are only detectable on lots 12 and 25. From No. 5 to No. 33 on Neusser Straße, the city owned all the properties on the west side of the avenue. At the end of the 19th century, the rebuilding of the banks of the Rhine from 1898 and the creation of a new Rhine bank promenade led to a redesign of the urban areas near the bank. The existing buildings on the east side of the Rhine had to give way in some places. For example, the houses on the west side of Krämerstrasse were demolished at that time. The adjustments also led to changes for the west side of the avenue in the area of ​​the Berger Ufer (called Mannesmannufer after 1945). The previous use in the entire area has been changed here.

The houses and all storage areas on this side were torn down and lifted and the width of the avenue adjusted. In 1895 the Berger Tor was closed to improve the traffic conditions at the beginning of the avenue. Furthermore, after the Berger Tor was demolished, the avenue began a little further north directly on Bäckerstraße. With the removal of the gate, the Spee'sche Palais became the eastern corner building of the avenue with the Bäckerstraße. In 1898 only house no. 1 was detectable on the west side, which extended as a double building to Bäckerstraße as its no. 3 until it was demolished around 1903. The buildings on the east side from Carlsthor, however, remained unchanged.

It was not until the middle of the first decade of the new century that a new construction phase began on the western side of the avenue. The western corner building on the corner property with Berger Allee can be verified for the first time in 1905 as the new building at Bäckerstrasse No. 5a. In 1907 there were new buildings on the plots of avenue No. 1 to 3 and 7 to 11, and in 1908 plots 1 to 17 were continuously rebuilt on the west side. The Behrensbau for Mannesmann, built between 1911 and 1912, had the house number Berger Ufer 1b . Since the back of the building was on Berger Allee, the name of the Rhine promenade was decisive. The same applies to the state house of the Rhenish provincial administration , which was built from 1909 to 1911 and which was located between Thomasstrasse and Haroldstrasse on the Berger Ufer.

After 1945

After the Second World War , only the Behrensbau in the Berger Allee area was more severely affected by war damage. Until the early 1950s, the avenue ended unchanged on Haroldstrasse, which in turn began on Mannesmannufer. Both Johannes-Rau-Platz and Horionplatz were not available at that time. The former had not yet been laid out and the southern end of the avenue was only renamed a little later for the latter. After the end of the reconstruction phase at the end of the 1950s, old houses in the city began to be replaced by new, often larger buildings. This also affected the existing building fabric in the area of ​​Berger Allee and, for example, a large office complex was built in front of the Behrensbau and a high-rise in the area at the eastern end of the avenue. The main changes are as follows:

Entrance area of ​​the city museum on Berger Allee (2011)
  • Buildings No. 1 to 17: During the reconstruction, the houses Berger Allee No. 1 and 3 were integrated into the new corner building at Bäckerstraße No. 5a. Buildings 5 ​​to 9 were restored, while the remaining houses up to the Behrensbau were replaced by the large Mannesmannufer 3 office complex. This new building block is located between Mannesmannufer and Berger Allee with access to the house portal on a new, wide cross-connection between the Rheinuferpromenade and Berger Allee.
  • Stadtmuseum , Berger Allee No. 2: In 1958, Düsseldorf relocated its "Stadtgeschichtliches Museum" (City History Museum), called the City Museum from 1980, to the Palais Spee on the corner of Bäckerstraße and Berger Allee. In 1977 and 1991 new extensions were built for this museum in the Berger Allee area in two construction phases.
  • Behrensbau , Berger Allee No. 23: The Mannesmann headquarters was located in this building until 1958 and the completion of the new high-rise building to the south and was still used as an office building until 1999. Company employees and visitors can now access the building from Berger Allee because of the easier access to the building. After Mannesmann was taken over by Vodafone , the building was modernized in 2000 and used as an office location. As early as 2008, the Mannesmann high-rise was sold to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. The building was rented and used until 2012. The new owner had emergency shelters set up in the building from 2015 and from October 2015 it was used to house refugees. After the last refugees moved out by January 2017, the building is currently not in use. (As of summer 2017)
  • Vodafon high-rise , Berger Allee 25: From 1958 this newly built high-rise was the seat of the Mannesmann AG executive board . After Mannesmann was taken over by Vodafone in 1999, the building was modernized and from 2003 to 2012 was the headquarters of Vodafone's German branch. In 2008 Vodafone sold the property with the high-rise building to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia , but continued to use the building as a tenant. After the completion of the new head office for Vodafone at the end of 2012 in the Heerdt district , the Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia moved into the high-rise in 2013 . Since the beginning of 2017, it has been planned that a new high-rise will be built on the Rhine Tower at the port on urban land. For this purpose, an exchange of land is planned between the city of Düsseldorf and the state government. North Rhine-Westphalia is to take over the property at the Rheinturm and the city is to receive the property with the Vodafone high-rise for this purpose. (As of August 2017)
View from left to right and the Rhine side on Behrensbau, Vodafon high-rise, Landeshaus, Villa Horion
  • Landeshaus , Horion-Platz No. 1 (old: Berger Allee No. 33): This old office complex of the Rhenish Provincial Association, south of Thomasstrasse, consisting of several building areas, was the seat of the administration for the province of North Rhine from the end of 1945 to 1946 . The governor sat next door in the Villa Horion . From 1954 to 1959 the central administration of the Rhineland Regional Council was also located in the State House until the move to Cologne. After the state of North Rhine-Westphalia was founded, the state house housed the North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery from 1961 to 1999. After that, various ministries of North Rhine-Westphalia had their official headquarters here. After a renovation from 1959, from 1961 to 1999, Villa Horion was the official seat of the state's Prime Minister. By October 2017, both the Prime Minister's office and the State Chancellery will be relocated from the city ​​gate back to the State House. To do this, the ministries for health and homeland located in the state house move out.
  • Buildings No. 2 to 16: After the restoration of the houses from Carltor on Berger Allee, changes occurred here after the Second World War. Building No. 2 was combined with the corner house Carltor No. 1. The houses no. 4, 6 and 10 were rebuilt. The former property no. 8 was combined with no. 10 and is the postal no. 10. The remaining houses up to Haroldstrasse were replaced by the high-rise Haroldstrasse no The topping-out ceremony took place on October 9, 1958. The NRW Ministry for "Children, Families, Refugees and Integration" is housed in this high-rise. Until the beginning of the 1950s, Berger Allee ended on Haroldstrasse. However, at this time the eastern area in front of the Landeshaus and Villa Horion was already widened like a square, partly greened and undeveloped. This area was renamed Horionplatz after 1950 and now delimited Berger Allee at its southern end. With the construction of the Rheinufertunnel from 1990 to 1993, the Rheinuferstraßen in the Old Town and Carlstadt area became superfluous for above-ground car traffic and the Haroldstraße / Mannesmann Ufer intersection was discontinued as a normal traffic connection. In the area in front of Villa Horion, the previous street area was rebuilt like a square and Herionplatz was enlarged accordingly. In 2006 the new southern area in front of the villa was renamed Johannes-Rau-Platz .

Until the early 2000s, the entire Berger Allee was open to car traffic. Cars could use Berger Allee to and from Haroldstrasse to Bäckerstrasse in both directions. In the meantime, the northern part of the avenue up to house number 9 is only a pedestrian area and passage is no longer permitted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf . 1940, p. [859] 38.
  2. ↑ In: Report on the status and administration of community affairs in the city of Düsseldorf . April 1, 1886 to March 31, 1887, p. [129] 129.
  3. ^ In: Apartment gazette and address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf . 1850, p. [70] 60.
  4. ^ In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf. Part II . 1859, p. [116] 6.
  5. ^ In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf. Part II . 1870, p. [178] 6.
  6. ^ In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf. Part II . 1880, p. [201/2] 10/1.
  7. ^ In: Budget budget of the city of Düsseldorf . April 1, 1882 to March 31, 1883, p. [57] 11.
  8. ^ In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf. Part II . 1880, p. [425] 22.
  9. ^ In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf. 2nd part . 1898, p. [514] 500.
  10. ^ In: Address book for the township and the mayor's offices. 3rd part . 1905, p. [699] 55.
  11. ^ In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf and the mayor's offices. Part II . 1907, p. [716] 61.
  12. ^ In: Address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf and the mayor's offices . 1907, p. [716] 68.
  13. ^ In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf and the mayor's offices . 1913, p. [719] 35.
  14. ↑ In: Report on the status and administration of community affairs in the city of Düsseldorf . April 1, 1910 to March 31, 1911, p. [175] 152.
  15. ↑ a b In: City map of Düsseldorf and Neuss . Historical Falk plan from 1949
  16. ↑ In: RGM Online. Note dated October 28, 2015 . Conversion of Behrensbau
  17. ^ In: Press release from the NRW press office from February 2017 . Letter of intent for property exchange
  18. ↑ In: RP Online from August 24, 2017. nrw-ministerpraesident-armin-laschet-ist-already-moved
  19. ^ In: Administrative report of the state capital Düsseldorf. City Chronicle. Period from April 1, 1958 to March 31, 1958 . 1959, p. [11] 7.

Remarks

  1. ^ From a city map from 1914 it can be seen that at that time the state house did not yet have the later dimensions. Only the lower half of the area between Thomasstrasse and Haroldstrasse on Berger Ufer was occupied by the building. At that time, the upper half, like the area directly on Berger Allee, was still undeveloped. In a city map from 1920, on the other hand, the entire area between Berger Ufer and Berger Allee south of Thomasstrasse was built on (evidence: city map 1920, p. [449] -).
  2. ^ In the Falk plan from 1949, the buildings in Düsseldorf that were heavily damaged during the war are also shown.