Bundesallee (Wuppertal)
The Bundesallee is an inner-city main thoroughfare in Wuppertal and a 1.8 kilometer long section of the federal highway 7 (B 7). It was named on February 10, 1954 after the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany . The road is used by around 34,300 vehicles per day in the front section and around 36,500 vehicles in the middle section.
topography
Coming from Robert-Daum-Platz , the street begins as a continuation of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in the Elberfeld district . It runs as a west-east axis parallel to the Wupper to the east, leads over the traffic junction Döppersberg and turns into the street Friedrich-Engels-Allee near the district boundary to Barmen .
The avenue begins as an eight-lane, wide street on Robert-Daum-Platz. The former route of the tram is used as a wide median with greenery. In the further course, the number of lanes changes to an average of six lanes due to the beginning and ending bus lanes.
There are numerous administration and office buildings on the street, but Bundesallee never was an avenue , in the classic sense with trees.
history
After the Second World War , in which large parts of Wuppertal were destroyed, the entire valley axis was redesigned. The area of the Bundesallee was changed the most and adapted to the growing volume of traffic in the 1950s with a four-lane expansion. The route of this main street did not exist before the war, but was planned during the Second World War .
The street was named on February 10, 1954, initially for the section between Brausenwerth and Kluser Bridge . On November 22nd, it was extended to the entire current course. The application of the CDU parliamentary group in the city council in April 1967 to rename the section between Robert-Daum-Platz and Döppersberg to Adenauer- Allee was rejected.
Buildings on the street
Numerous buildings and facilities are located on this street, five of which are entered in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.
- The former Aue grammar school , now Aue Catholic secondary school
- The Bergische Chamber of Industry and Commerce Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid
- The Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal
- The Köbo house at the Döppersberg suspension railway stop
- The Commercial Schools West
- A cinema belonging to the Cinemaxx group
- The playhouse
- The Sopp'sche Pavilion
Web links
- Architectural monument overview Bundesallee in the Wuppertal monument list
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ^ Döppersberg - traffic concept for the construction phases ( memento of March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) from January 2008