Christernstrasse

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Christernstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Basic data
city Bremen
district Hemelingen
Cross streets Hannoversche Str. , Brunostr., Glockenstr., Kirchnerstr., Passenstr., Bertramstr., Kleine Westerholzstr., Brüggeweg , Grabenstr., Bruchweg
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 1100 meters

The Christern road is a central access road to Bremen , district Hemelingen , Hemelingen. It mainly runs in a west-east direction from Hemelinger Bahnhofstraße / Hannoversche Straße to Osterhop street.

The cross streets and connecting streets were named u. a. as Hemelinger Bahnhofstraße, which leads to the train station, Hannoversche Straße after the city of Hanover , Brunostraße after the operator of the Brün Ehlers windmill, Glockenstraße after the Hemelinger bell foundry Otto from 1874, Unnamed Streets, Kirchnerstraße after the director of the former aluminum and magnesium factory Wilhelm Kirchner ( 1887–1929), Passenstraße after the landowner Heinrich Passen, Bertramstraße after the building officer Bertram, Kleine Westerholzstraße after the earlier wood, Brüggeweg after the city in West Flanders , Grabenstraße after a larger drainage ditch, Bruchweg after the break in the landscape and Osterhop after a field name between Hemelingen and Arbergen ; otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Surname

Christernstrasse was named after the mayor of Hemelingen Alfred Christern (1856–1929). He worked as mayor from 1904 to 1922, built up the municipal administration, arranged the local planning and had the Hemelingen town hall built by 1906 . The street was previously called Karlsstrasse .

development

In the middle of the 19th century industrialization began with the connection to various railway lines in Hemelingen. The population increased sharply from 1855 to 1905 from 2275 to 7214 inhabitants.

The Hemelingen bell foundry Otto was founded in 1874 by Franz Otto from Duderstadt together with his brother Karl. Here 6200 bells a . a. cast for the Bremen Cathedral (the Brema ) and St. Martini . The company closed in 1974. The Hemelinger aluminum and magnesium factory was another company in this area at this time. Minna Wilkens, the wife of the entrepreneur Diedrich Wilkens , got involved in the old nursing home on Christernstrasse in 1880 and in the former Christernstrasse hospital in 1895.

traffic

After the construction of the Hemelinger Tunnel by 2003, the volume of traffic fell in the surrounding area, including on Christernstrasse.

In local transport in Bremen, bus routes 29 (Kattenturm-Mitte ↔ Neue Vahr-Nord), 40/41 (Mahndorf ↔ Weserwehr station) and 42 (Marschstraße ↔ Weserwehr) run through Christernstraße.

Buildings and facilities

There are mostly one- and two-story buildings on the street.

Bremen monuments

Notable buildings and facilities

  • Bridge over the Wanne-Eickel – Hamburg railway line
  • No. 2 and 4: 2-sch. Residential houses from around 1900
  • No. 6: 3-sch. Building with day care center
  • No. 12: 2-sch. House from around 1900
  • No. 14: 2-sch. seven newer apartment buildings in the second row
  • No. 16: 2-sch. Newer building of the Hemelingen police station
  • No. 18: 2-sch. Newer community center of the church from 2018 based on plans by Valentin Schmitz
    • No. 18b: Kita of the Ev. Parish of Hemelingen
    • Behind it Westerholzstraße 19: Evangelical parish of Hemelingen, s. O.
  • Brüggeweg No. 54 at the corner of Christernstraße: 4-storey. Building of Rheinmetall Electronics
  • No. 107 to 117: 2- and 3-layered Commercial buildings of various companies
  • Bruchweg No. 41 at the corner of Christernstraße: Osmers restaurant

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

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Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '17.4 "  N , 8 ° 53' 34.4"  E