Columbusstrasse (Bremerhaven)

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Columbus Street
coat of arms
Street in Bremerhaven
Columbus Street
In front: Old Harbor , behind it Columbusstrasse, partly under the Columbus Center
Basic data
city Bremerhaven
district Mitte , Geestemünde
Created 1966
Cross streets Elbestr. , Schönianstr., Borriesstr., Wilhelmshavener Str., Brommystr., Bussestr., An der Geeste, Van-Ronzelen-Str., Am Alten Hafen, Obere Bürger, Kirchenstr., Mühlenstr., Hermann-Henrich-Meier-Str., Keilstr., Am Neuen Hafen, Lloydplatz, Lloydstr. , Lloydplatz
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design four to six lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 1800 meters
Columbus-Center in front of it and below it Columbusstraße, in front the old port as a museum harbor

The Columbus Street is a central thoroughfare in Bremerhaven , middle (South) and Geestemünde (North). It partly runs parallel to Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse, mainly in a south-north direction from Geestemünde from Elbinger Platz and Georgstrasse to Barkhausenstrasse and Lloydstrasse .

It is divided into the sub-areas

  • Georgstraße to Geeste in Geestemünde
  • Geeste to Lloydstrasse in Mitte.

The cross streets and the connecting streets were named u. a. as Georgstraße 1860 after King Georg V (Hanover) , Elbinger Platz after the godfather city, Elbestraße after the river, Schönianstraße after the government councilor Johann Schönian from Lehe, Borriesstraße after the Minister of Hanover and sponsor of Geestemündes Wilhelm von Borries (1802-1883) , Wilhelmshavener Straße after the city, Brommystraße after the rear admiral and commander of the first imperial fleet Karl Rudolf Brommy (1804-1860), Bussestraße after the ship owner and founder of the German deep-sea fishing Friedrich Busse (1835-1898), An der Geeste after the river, Van -Ronzelen -Straße after the hydraulic engineer and Bremen port construction director (1800–1865), Am Alten Hafen , Obere Bürger after the shopping arcade above, Kirchenstraße that leads to the Great Church , Mühlenstraße (?), Hermann-Henrich-Meier -Straße after Shipowner and founder of North German Lloyd (1809–1898), Keilstraße (?), Two unnamed streets, Am Neuen Hafen , Lloydplatz and Lloydstraße after the shipping company and d em Werftbetrieb Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) as well as Barkhausenstrasse after the Bremen mayor Carl Georg Barkhausen (1848–1917); otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Surname

Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio - Ritratto di Cristoforo Colombo (1520) .jpg

The Columbus Strait was named after the American explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), who in 1492 discovered an island in the Bahamas and thus the New World .

The seaside city of Bremerhaven also named the Columbus Center Bremerhaven and the Columbuskaje after the discoverer and also the well-known ship Columbus of North German Lloyd from 1924 with its home port Bremerhaven received this name.

development

Kennedy Bridge and storm surge barrier
Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences , in front of house C, in between Columbusstrasse, on the right the Geeste
House S of the university
In front Alfred Wegener Institute, left the street with Columbus Center
Seeamt , Keilstrasse 3
Bridge between the old and the new port from 1963
German emigration center from 2005
From left: Atlantic Hotel Sail City , Klimahaus , Columbusstrasse crossing and Columbus Center

After the construction of the ports in Bremerhaven (from 1827), Bremerhaven slowly expanded to the east and north around 1850. For a long time, the road served to develop the old and new ports in Bremerhaven . The Bremerhaven train station was at the New Harbor and had more of the character of a freight station. Today Columbusstrasse runs there.

Around 1960 the urban planner and architect Prof. Ernst May developed a long-term concept for the Mitte district. In the master plan, a continuous street (Columbusstrasse and Barkhausenstrasse) was planned parallel to Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse, which led to Geestemünde on the Kennedy Bridge over the Geeste since 1963. Through May's plans, the Mitte district was consistently aligned with the Weser and the harbor basins in front of it. Since the old and the new port lost their importance for the port economy, a constant upgrading of the area for the coming Havenwelten could take place.

In 1960 the Bremerhaven Ship Engineering School began teaching in a new three-storey building at Columbusstrasse 21, today the converted House C as a seminar building for the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences . The German Maritime Museum from 1971 based on plans by Hans Scharoun was an important source of inspiration for the area. At Elbing Place the built AOK their office space to determine the 1970th The up to 24-stor. The residential and commercial building Columbus-Center Bremerhaven from 1978 changed the area decisively. The main building of the Alfred Wegener Institute was built in 1985, the German Emigration Center in 2005.

traffic

The continuous street Barkhausenstrasse, Columbusstrasse and Kennedybrücke has led from the ports to Geestemünde since 1963, after the Kennedybrücke and the storm surge barrier were completed. The road is part of the federal highway 212 (Bremerhaven to Bookholzberg and to the federal highway 28 )

In BremerhavenBus local transport, the HL line ( Hafen-Liner : Rotersand - Thünen-Institut) and from Keilstraße the lines 501, 502, 505, 506, 508, 509, 511, ML and NL the road and the lines 503, 504, 507 and 510 affect them at Elbinger Platz in Geestemünde.

Buildings and facilities

Notable buildings and facilities

  • No. 1: 2-, 5- and 8-layered. AOK Lower Saxony office building; previously demolished new building from 1966
  • No. 2: 16- and 17-gesch. Office and residential high-rise Haus des Handwerks from 1971 with u. a. the Akademie des Handwerks an der Unterweser and an insurance company as well as the Young Theater Bremerhaven (JUB) since 2011
  • At the Geeste No.: 2-gesch. historical Museum
  • At the Geeste No. 13a: 2-gesch. maritime commercial building
  • Bussestraße No. 16A / An der Geeste No. 19: 3-gesch. New construction of
  • Geeste with 28.4 m wide Kennedy Bridge and storm surge barrier from 1961/63
  • Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
    • No. 21: 3-storey building C as a converted seminar building for ship operation technology at the university; since 1960 new building of the ship engineering school Bremerhaven
    • Karlsburg No. 7 / Columbusstraße: House S from 2005, seminar building and library
    • At Karlstadt No. 8 / Columbusstraße: House T - technology from 2011
  • Theater garage parking garage
  • Back of the Bremerhaven City Theater on Theodor-Heuss-Platz,
  • At the Old Harbor No. 26: 4- and 5-storey. Main building of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) from 1985 with stacked floors according to plans by Oswald Mathias Ungers
  • Old port from 1830; Today the museum harbor with Bark Seute lass , ocean-going tug Sea Hawk , whaling steamer RAU IX , Haffkahn Emma , inland tugs Helmut , Lightship Elbe 3 , submarine Wilhelm Bauer
  • Upper Citizen No. 127: Up to 24-gesch. Columbus-Center Bremerhaven residential and commercial building from 1978 based on plans by Peter Weber , Bremerhaven for Neue Heimat . The center consists of two parking decks, and above that two additional floors for the shopping and service center with around 75 shops, restaurants etc. on an area of ​​over 30,000 m². The three high-rises up to 88 meters high have 555 apartments.
  • Pedestrian bridge from the center over the old harbor to the Havenwelten to the Klimahaus Bremerhaven , Mediterraneo , Atlantic Hotel Sail City , German Maritime Museum , zoo by the sea and to the beach hall
  • At the Old Harbor No. 118: 8-gesch. Residential and office building with u. a. the registry office
  • H.-H.-Meier-Strasse No. 2 / Keilstrasse No. 3: 2-gesch. Historic building from 1898 with hipped roof and medium risalit from the former Bremerhaven Sea Office , today used as an office
  • Bridge between the old and the new harbor from 1927 with bascule bridges and an engine house
  • No. 65.3-gesch. German emigration center from 2005 based on plans by Andreas Heller , Hamburg
  • No. 67 and 69: two 6-fold Building from around 2005 with u. a. The Liberty Hotel and Restaurant
  • Schifferstrasse No. 2–8: 3-storey. Office building from the 1970s with the Bremerhaven tax office
  • Schifferstrasse No. 10-14: 2- and 3-storey. Office building with u. a. M&B industrial technology
  • Lloydstrasse 5 at the corner of Columbusstrasse: 3-storey. Residential house from the 1910s with side gable projections
Columbus statue

Art objects, memorial plaques

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wesermünde district. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
  2. ^ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven route networks (ÖPNV). P. 104 , accessed on September 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  4. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 26.7 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 44.9"  E