Cité Hittorf
| Cité Hittdorf | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 10. |
| quarter | Porte-Saint-Martin |
| Beginning | Cité de Magenta |
| The End | 2, Rue Hittorf |
| morphology | |
| length | 46 m |
| width | 4.5 m |
| history | |
| Original names | Cité Grange |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 4557 |
The Cité Hittorf is a street in the Porte Saint-Martin district of the 10th arrondissement in Paris . It is very close to the Mairie of the 10th arrondissement .
location
The Cité Hittorf begins at the end of the Cité de Magenta and ends at 6 rue Pierre Bullet . Here it flows into rue Hittorf . The Cité Hittorf does not cross any other street in its course.
The nearest metro stations are Château d'Eau and Jacques Bonsergent on lines 4 and 5 .
Name origin
The street was named in 1893 after the Cologne- born architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorff (1792–1867), as was the street of the same name ( Rue Hittdorf ) next door .
history
The road with a width of 4.5 meters and a length of 66 meters is around the left side of the Hôtel Gouthière and on the right side of residential buildings, some 2,011 construction is finished, the social housing is limited.
Hittorff was also involved in the construction of the St-Vincent-de-Paul church and the Gare du Nord train station in the same arrondissement . In order to name this small street after the architect who was important for Paris in the 19th century - the street is incorrectly spelled with an F only - the Cité de Magenta was shortened and the further course of the street was called Rue Hittorf .
literature
- Jacques Hillairet: Dictionnaire Historique des Rues de Paris. Les Éditions de Minuit , Paris 1963, ISBN 2-7073-0092-6 .
- Laure Beaumont-Maillet: Vie et histoire du Xe arrondissement. Éditions Hervas, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-903118-35-3 .
Web links
- Cité Hittorf: Official street data of the city of Paris (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 18.2 " N , 2 ° 21 ′ 30.9" E