Berliner Allee (Düsseldorf)
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| Berliner Allee at the Steinstraße / Königsallee underground station with the Stadtsparkasse skyscraper (in January 2008) | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Dusseldorf |
| District | City center |
| Connecting roads | Hofgartenstrasse ( Jan-Wellem-Platz ), Adersstrasse |
| Cross streets | Schadowstrasse , Klosterstrasse, Immermannstrasse, Ernst-Schneider-Platz, Martin-Luther-Platz, Marienstraße, Josephinenstrasse, Place of German Unity, Steinstrasse, Kreuzstrasse, Stresemannstrasse, Grünstrasse, Alexanderstrasse, Bahnstrasse, Graf-Adolf-Strasse , Hüttenstrasse |
| Buildings | Highrise the Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf , Dusseldorf Stock Exchange |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Road design | Tram runs in the middle of the street |
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| Street length | 1,100 m |
The Berliner Allee is one of the main roads of the North Rhine-Westphalian capital Dusseldorf . The district in downtown location street was rescheduled during and after the Second World War and built in much of 1954-1962. In addition to the Rheinufertunnel in the west, it forms the eastern inner-city north-south axis. It is classified as Landesstraße 55. As a result of the Wehrhahn Line and Kö-Bogen projects , its northern section is currently undergoing a profound traffic and urban redesign.
location
The Berliner Allee began until 2013 in the north at the Hofgarten . Via Hofgartenstraße, which divides the Hofgarten, it took over the traffic from Kaiserstraße , Maximilian-Weyhe-Allee and Jägerhofstraße flowing into the city center from the north . Then it is most Dreischeibenhaus and now with the K-arch built Jan-Wellem-Platz over.
Up until 2013, the carriageway at this point was over an elevated road called a millipede . Its concrete construction, which embodied the urban development model of the " car-friendly city " of the post-war period and the phase of the German " economic miracle ", crossed Schadowstrasse . This point was an important traffic junction because local public transport and Schadowstrasse as the main shopping street and pedestrian zone also shaped the traffic functions. In addition, Immermannstrasse converged here from the southeast. The north-facing carriageway of Berliner Allee ran at ground level under a high junction of Hochstraße leading into Immermannstraße and together with Hochstraße formed the so-called Tuchtinsel , a street block with six - story office and commercial buildings.
After the millipede was demolished and the Kö-Bogen project was implemented, this area was redesigned so that Berliner Allee is led through road tunnels with underground branches to Immermannstraße, Elberfelder Straße and the adjacent underground car parks. A large part of the rail-bound local public transport runs underground here after the renovation, because the Wehrhahn Line crosses the Berliner Allee area as an underground train . The new Jan-Wellem-Platz and green spaces, in particular an avenue of trimmed plane trees and a green space to connect the eastern and western areas of the courtyard garden, were built on the earlier routes.
To the south of this converted area, the street passes the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange and at the Johanneskirche the Martin-Luther-Platz, a relic of the city plan from the phase of early city expansion in the 19th century. The former Landeszentralbank (now a branch of the Deutsche Bundesbank ) and the Platz der Deutschen Einheit with the Mack fountain follow on the eastern side . The southern edge of the square forms the intersection with Steinstraße, the most important connection from the old town to the main train station with the underground two-story light rail stop Steinstraße / Königsallee . It follows southwest of the intersection of the glass building of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf with the distinctive glass shades.
To the south of the important Düsseldorf traffic and tram intersection with Graf-Adolf-Straße, Berliner Allee finally flows into a square-like extension called Ernst-Reuter-Platz, which on the east side faces Karl-Rudolf-Straße and on the north side with Adersstraße and on the south side belongs to Hüttenstraße. In the southeast of this traffic junction, the center of which is adorned with the bronze sculpture of a Berlin bear, Corneliusstraße finally takes up the main flow of traffic on Berliner Allee.
Tram line 701 runs along the entire length of Berliner Allee on a separate median strip with accompanying horticultural vegetation. Until the millipede was demolished, there were tram stops at the intersection with Schadowstrasse and at the intersections with Steinstrasse and Graf-Adolf-Strasse, at the latter there are also bus stops.
history
Since the parallel Königsallee ends at the Hofgarten , the plans for the “Gau capital” Düsseldorf in the late 1930s already included plans to draw a north-south axis parallel to Königsallee across a grown urban district. After the buildings in this area had been largely destroyed by the bombing , the opportunity arose to realize these plans. They were updated in 1947 by the city planning office under Bernhard Düttmann in the construction plan and taken over by Friedrich Tamms in the reorganization plan , which the council decided on April 10, 1950. Numerous buildings that had already been rebuilt had to be destroyed again in the implementation of the plan, which served to cope with the foreseeable increase in motorized individual traffic.
On September 23, 1960, Berliner Allee was opened to traffic in the presence of the then Governing Mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt .
Until the subway from the main train station to the old town went into operation in May 1988, Berliner Allee and the adjacent Jan-Wellem-Platz were the central tram node and the center of public transport in the city.
Berliner Allee was initially intended as a government street on which the ministries of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia were to settle. Due to the tough construction planning, however, the government offices were scattered across the inner city in the 1950s and were no longer interested in moving again. In addition to smaller bank branches, the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf settled with a high-rise building on a two-story base. The building ensemble was extensively renovated in 2000 and provided with a glass facade, whereby the large clock was also removed from the top of the high-rise. The skyscraper is about 15 meters lower than the Johanneskirche , which escaped the city's demolition plans after protests. The North Rhine-Westphalian headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange are also located here . At the junction with the Graf-Adolf-Straße was 1964 on a road block Horten -Kaufhaus (later Kaufhof Galeria) with Hort tile principal façade and the ride-on high-rise (by 2000 heavily modified facade) for the former IBM management by the architect Egon Eiermann . The street is mainly built on six floors with a recessed upper floor with balconies and flat roofs . On the ground floor, often with an accompanying mezzanine , there are retail spaces or restaurants in numerous buildings. Long stretches of the road are lined with plane trees. In the beginning, Berliner Allee became a sought-after address with many airline branches, fashionable restaurants and elegant shops as well as an office location. The increasing through traffic made the street uncomfortable for pedestrians over time. The upgrading measures in the old town and on Königsallee as well as changes in purchasing behavior and the choice of office location led to increasing desertification as early as the 1980s. The street with the entire quarter up to the main train station south of Immermannstrasse is classified as a 2B location today . In 1980 the avenue was planted by the artist Tita Giese .
In June 2013, Kaufhof announced that the lease for the Galeria Kaufhof branch would expire on December 31, 2014. Then the building was extensively rebuilt; today it operates as "The Crown". A hotel and a large supermarket opened there in March 2018.
At the end of August 2020 it became known that the architect Santiago Calatrava had presented a project for the Tuchtinsel at the north end of Berliner Allee to the city of Düsseldorf's high-rise advisory board . His design envisages a high-rise building in the organic shape of a fin , which rises to a height of 100 meters above a two-story base, which is to contain retail space. It is positioned in such a way that it rises in a spectacular incline on Schadowstrasse - opposite Kö-Bogen II and Dreischeibenhaus - and forms a point de vue with a sharp vertical edge towards both Berliner Allee and Immermannstrasse .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Falkstadtplan Düsseldorf from 1949 ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Alexander Schulte: Friedrich Tamms, the “Lord of the Bridges”, shaped Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article from February 1, 2013 in the portal wz-newsline.de , accessed on February 2, 2013
- ↑ Rheinische Post of June 17, 2013
- ↑ High-rise development planned on Tuchtinsel in Düsseldorf , website from August 29, 2020 in the portal Lokalbuero.com , accessed on August 29, 2020
Web links
- City Archives Düsseldorf
- Exhibition "Architectural Dispute" in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf (PDF file; 68 kB)
- Historians office Düsseldorf
- Düsseldorf city history: The new building of the city of Düsseldorf after the Second World War
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 20.1 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 57.1 ″ E