Cecilienallee
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| Cecilienallee, view from the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke to the south | |
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| place | Dusseldorf |
| District | Pempelfort , Golzheim |
| Connecting roads | Josef-Beuys-Ufer, Rotterdamer Strasse |
| Cross streets | Sittarder Strasse, Robert-Lehr-Ufer, Klever Strasse , Homberger Strasse, Golzheimer Platz, Am Binnenwasser, Uerdinger Strasse |
| Buildings | Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf , district government Dusseldorf , Theodor Heuss Bridge |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
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| Street length | ≈ 1,600 m |
The Cecilienallee in Düsseldorf is a north-south connecting road along the banks of the Rhine in the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital. The street, laid out at the beginning of the 20th century, is only built on on the eastern side of the street. The entire length of the western side of the street is lined by the Rheinpark Golzheim .
Course of the road
Cecilienallee begins in the Pempelfort district , north of the Ehrenhof . Together with the Rheinufertunnel, it forms an important inner-city north-south connection as well as an access route to the Düsseldorf exhibition center via Rotterdamer Strasse . The Golzheim section of Cecilienallee begins at the junction with Klever Straße . The southern part up to Homberger Straße is part of the B1 . The Cecilienallee follows the course of the Rhine and describes a slight curve from south to north-west. At the confluence of Uerdinger Strasse, where Cecilienallee merges into Rotterdamer Strasse, the street scene is shaped by the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke crossing there .
history
The urban expansion plan drawn up by the city architect Buch in 1884/85 envisaged the construction of a Rheinuferstrasse and extensive green areas in the area of today's Cecilienallee. Track systems were also planned in order to possibly build a new port there. After the city of Düsseldorf decided in 1886 not to build the new trading port in Golzheim, the question arose of how the area on the offshore Rhine island , the Golzheimer Insel, should be used in the future. In addition to urban planning aspects, such as the creation of extensive areas for the 1902 industrial and commercial exhibition in Düsseldorf , flood protection also played an important role in the development of this section of the bank. So between 1898 and 1902 the banks of the Rhine were pushed forward and the Golzheimer Insel filled up. The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Park and from 1906 also the “Cecilien-Allee” (spelling at the time) with representative administrative and residential buildings were laid out on the flood-protected area that was created in this way.
Development
The southern part of Cecilienallee is characterized by imposing, free-standing administrative buildings in the neo-baroque style, including the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court and the Düsseldorf District Government building complex . Even further north, up to Homberger Straße, this loosened-up development of large administrative buildings predominates, most of which are buildings from the period after the Second World War. The listed building of the former US Consulate General is particularly noteworthy . To the north of Homberger Straße there is predominantly closed perimeter block development, with the buildings dating from different eras of the 20th and 21st centuries. Buildings from the 1920s and 1930s predominate here. Numerous buildings on Cecilienallee are under monument protection.
designation
The Cecilienallee was named after the last Crown Princess of the German Empire, Cecilie zu Mecklenburg . Her husband, Crown Prince Wilhelm , was the patron of the Düsseldorf Industrial and Commercial Exhibition in 1902 , which took place on the west side of Cecilienallee. The official inauguration of the street took place on March 1, 1906. Between 1936/37 and 1945 the Cecilienallee was renamed after the National Socialists before 1933, the so-called Old Fighters , in first "Ufer der Alten Garde" followed by "Alte-Garde-Ufer". This was ordered according to the announcement of the police chief Fritz Weitzel , who is based in the state police headquarters in Düsseldorf . The continuing Rotterdam Street was also added to the street name.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Karnau: The Düsseldorf harbor. Economic policy and urban development in the Wilhelmine era . Droste, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-7700-3034-6 , pp. 125f.
- ↑ Stefanie Schäfers: The Exhibition History of the City of Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 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. (Page 8 of 14) on the website www.schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de , accessed on February 2, 2012
- ↑ Oliver Karnau: The Düsseldorf harbor. Economic policy and urban development in the Wilhelmine era . Droste, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-7700-3034-6 , pp. 181-184.
- ^ Website of the Düsseldorf City Archives: The Cecilienallee . Retrieved February 1, 2012
- ^ Hermann Kleinfeld: Dusseldorf's streets and their names. Grupello, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-928234-36-6 , p. 91.
- ^ Anne-José Paulsen (ed.): Festschrift 100 years of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 17.
- ↑ 591. Announcement , in the official gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region, year 1936. Item 37, pp. 241, 242
- ↑ 664. Announcement , in the official gazette for the administrative district of Düsseldorf, 1836. No. 41, p. 267
- ↑ 32nd announcement , in the official gazette for the administrative district of Düsseldorf, 1937. Piece 2, p. 11
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 45.2 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 0.1 ″ E