Brückstrasse (Wesel)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brückstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Wesel
Basic data
place Wesel
District Old town
Places Leyensplatz
use
User groups Foot traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 224 m

The Brückstraße is a downtown street in Wesel on the Lower Rhine and part of the central urban pedestrian. In the middle of the street is Leyensplatz.

location

Brückstrasse is located in the western part of a pedestrian and shopping street that runs through the Wesel city center between the Great Market in front of the Willibrordi Cathedral in the west and the Berliner Tor in the east. The 224-meter-long Brückstrasse begins in the west in front of the Großer Markt, from which it is separated by Dimmerstrasse. At its eastern end, at the confluence of Sandstrasse and Schmidtstrasse, it merges into the Viehor street, which is also part of the pedestrian zone . In the middle of Brückstrasse at the junctions of Goldstrasse, Lomberstrasse and Kettlerstrasse is Leyensplatz, where a fountain and benches have been designed. The square is of no postal relevance, the adjacent buildings therefore belong to Brückstrasse or the streets that flow into it. Brückstrasse and Leyensplatz are added to the "Domviertel".

History and development as a shopping street

View of Brückstrasse from the west (2014)

Due to its location near the cathedral, Brückstrasse was in the area of ​​the medieval old town. In the late 15th century it was considered an elegant street in what was then a wealthy Hanseatic city . The street name is derived from a high-quality road surface that was laid there. The verb “to bridge” describes the laying of such a covering.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the inner city axis between the cathedral and the Berliner Tor had developed into a business zone. Around 1900 the Brückstraße offered the best business location on the inner city axis, which was due in particular to its proximity to the marketplaces. The market days had a clearly positive effect on the adjacent retail trade. Before the Nazis' murder and expulsion of the Jewish citizens of Wesel, the street was also the residence of many Jews, who are remembered by more than a dozen stumbling blocks. There was a large furniture store run by a Jew and the department store of the Leyens family, last run by Erich Leyens , at the transition to the Großer Markt. The Leyensplatz on Brückstrasse was named after Leyens and his family.

After the end of the Second World War , which led to severe destruction, the inner city axis was once again intended as a business zone in the initial plans. There was also an attempt to enforce the uniform name Hohe Straße for the entire area, but this was withdrawn in July 1949 and Brückstraße was given its historical name back. From 1951 the city center axis could be used continuously by road traffic. In the same year, the Wesel – Rees – Emmerich small railway was put back into operation and ran over part of the Brückstraße until it was closed in 1966.

According to the plans, the inner city axis developed into the focus of inner city trade in the 1950s and was to be redesigned into a pedestrian zone from 1971. Since the incumbent senior district director initially prevented this, a trial phase could only be initiated in 1973 and the final opening was carried out in 1976. At the beginning of the 2010s, the entire pedestrian zone was renovated and redesigned. In addition to belonging to the central pedestrian zone, its location in the so-called Domviertel with its proximity to the Great Market and the Kornmarkt also plays an important role in the development of the street , which is why it is integrated into the Domviertel interest group founded in 2006. In the western part of Brückstraße facing the Großer Markt, owner-managed specialist shops dominate. Around 2015, more catering establishments began to settle here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Street directory 46483 ( Memento of the original from August 17, 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. (strassenverzeichnis.deutschlandblick.com)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / strassenverzeichnis.deutschlandblick.com
  2. ↑ Geoportal of the city of Wesel
  3. ↑ Concept for the development of the inner city of Wesel (wesel.de)
  4. ↑ Fountain on Leyensplatz gushes from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. (lokalkompass.de)
  5. ↑ a b Erich Leyens, a merchant from Wesel, was born before 115 (wesel.de)
  6. ↑ a b ISG Domviertel (weselmarketing.de)
  7. ↑ In December 1495 the city set up a new market in front of the Ducal Castle (wesel.de)
  8. ↑ Streets in Wesel - Letter B (wesel.de)
  9. ↑ a b Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 38
  10. ↑ Research on German Landscapes, Volume 201, p. 10
  11. ↑ Where the Stolpersteine ​​were laid (wesel.de)
  12. ↑ Excluded, expelled, murdered (derwesten.de)
  13. ↑ 100 years ago in Wesel: Mobilization (derwesten.de)
  14. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (Ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 17
  15. ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 108
  16. ↑ June 8, 1951 - A tram for Wesel (wesel.de)
  17. ↑ Urban development concept Wesel 2022 (wesel.de)
  18. ↑ On the change in the shopping mile (derwesten.de)
  19. ↑ Wesel: Success with high-quality women's fashion (wesel.de)
  20. ↑ Wesel wants to strengthen the retail trade with gastronomy (derwesten.de)

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 25.6 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 48.7 ″  E