Brüderstrasse (Kassel)

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The former Deichmannhaus on Brüderstraße
View over the Brüderstraße to the Brothers Church

The Brüderstraße is a street in the old town of Kassel . It leads to the Altmarkt .

history

Until 1867, the later Kettengasse in Kassel was also called Brüderstraße. Because of the dense settlement of the old town of Kassel and the resulting traffic problems, a renovation of the streets and alleys was already discussed towards the end of the 19th century. The alignment plan of 1895/96 already provided for a widening of the Brüderstraße, but some plans could not be carried out because of the outbreak of the First World War . In 1929 the use of the Brüderstraße with bicycles and handcarts was banned. In the Kasseler Volkszeitung of March 22, 1929 one could read: “The Brüderstraße is one of the shortest streets in the city; nevertheless she is [...] her problem child [...] Often the road was congested in a life-threatening way; The traffic accidents were more frequent than anywhere else in the city. ” One of the remedies was the Freedom Breakthrough : Among other things, the half-timbered house at Brüderstraße 25/27, which was probably from the 16th century, was demolished so that No. 23 became a corner house and Grünersche Haus, No. 29, which had been rebuilt in 1880 after a fire in the previous building, was now vacant. In the 1930s, this building, which was now considered to be stylistically inappropriate, was demolished and replaced by a stone building at Marktgasse 34/36, which was modeled on the half-timbered style of the area. The architect of this new building was Otto Vogt. In 1936 the redesigned west side of the old market was completed. The traffic connection was officially inaugurated on May 9, 1936. The shoe store Grüner, which was located in the demolished and replaced corner house at Brüderstraße 29 / Marktgasse 34/36, placed an advertisement on this occasion, in which it said: "Thanks to the leader - air - light - job creation [...]"

On October 22, 1943 , large parts of the old town of Kassel fell victim to an air raid. At the end of the war, none of the houses on Brüderstraße were intact. Parts of the ground floor walls of the houses with the numbers 19 to 23 were still present in 1944/45. The stone building that had replaced No. 29 remained relatively intact, apart from the loss of the roof, and was renovated soon after the end of the war. In the course of the construction of Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, however, it was later demolished.

In the course of the reconstruction, a competition was held in 1947. The basic principle of the award-winning plan by Hans Högg , Walter Baumgarten and Günther Marschall was to unite the traffic flows and guide them through the middle of the old town. The old market was converted into a traffic intersection. In the course of implementing this plan, the Brüderstraße and the Steinweg were to be widened and expanded to include four lanes. The general development plan was adopted in 1950 and implemented in the following years. Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, which was to give parts of the old Brüderstrasse a completely new face and cut the former old town into two, was laid out and built on in the mid-1950s. The rebuilt Old Brethren Church was preserved .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regiowiki
  2. a b c The old market in Kassel. Documentation ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. (PDF; 5.3 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cegemedia.de
  3. Freedom Breakthrough
  4. Building in existing buildings, p. 7 (PDF; 1.3 MB)

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 55.9 "  N , 9 ° 30 ′ 16.2"  E