Deichstrasse (Hamburg)
The dike road is a street in the city center of Hamburg and has the last surviving ensemble of althamburgischen town houses of the city. Therefore it has a historical value and is of great tourist importance. With the Cremon storage group on the other side of the Nikolaifleet , a relic of old Hamburg has been preserved.
location
The street is on the other side of Cremon and Grimm in the Altstadt district directly on Nikolaifleet. It runs from Willy-Brandt-Straße to Straße Kajen and thus represents a connection between the district around the town hall and the Speicherstadt or HafenCity . The street is largely a pedestrian zone.
description
The ensemble of town houses on Deichstraße stands - as the name suggests - on a dike between the street and Nikolaifleet. In the early modern period , the land on the dykes was built on with buildings, as Hamburg experienced an enormous boom due to increasing trade and soon there was a shortage of space in the city. The group of buildings consists of several half-timbered houses , which are equipped with representative facades facing the street, but have retained their half-timbering on the canal side (Nikolaifleet). There are loading hatches through which the barges in Nikolaifleet could be unloaded using a pulley system and the goods could be brought directly into the rooms of the house used as storage facilities.
In the front part of the house, on the other hand, was the living area, which included the office and the typical, representative hall. However, this form of the house has hardly been preserved to this day, as the houses have been changed significantly over the years, so shops were built in several houses on the ground floor. The most important building is the house number 37 ("Althamburgisches Bürgerhaus"), which was also changed by the furnishing of apartments in the 19th century, but by maintaining an authentic, two-storey hall from the Baroque and valuable furniture, which was made in the second World War II destroyed town houses, has a certain meaning.
meaning
In Deichstrasse there are houses that shaped large parts of Hamburg's inner city before the destruction of “old Hamburg” in the Great Fire , World War II and demolition measures from 1950 to 1980, the so-called Old Hamburg town houses. These combined living, working and storage under one roof. The last baroque merchant's house in Hamburg to be built as an outer dyke is on Deichstrasse on the water side of the protective wall. Built in 1686, it combined office, residential and warehouse under one roof. After the Great Fire of 1842 - which began in Deichstrasse - the urban image of Hamburg increasingly changed, as living and working were increasingly separated: the merchants who lived in town houses such as those on Deichstrasse moved to the suburbs outside the city center and came to work in the city, primarily in so-called office buildings, which should soon characterize the Hamburg city center as a new type of house.
The old town houses were converted into pure multi-party houses, with shops mostly moving to the ground floors. Due to the above-mentioned destruction of old buildings in downtown Hamburg, fewer and fewer houses have been preserved in recent decades.
As early as 1909, a complete hall of the house at Deichstrasse 53 was moved to the Museum of Hamburg History , where it is now a separate room. When the ensemble on Deichstrasse was also to be torn down in favor of a street widening, resistance arose among citizens, which resulted in the founding of the association Rettet die Deichstrasse in 1972 . The association was able to maintain and renovate the houses by collecting donations.
Today the Deichstrasse is one of the most attractive tourist attractions. In-house cafes and restaurants exacerbate this situation. Narrow corridors between the houses lead to the waterfront, where a pontoon is installed.
literature
- Lange, Ralf, Rademacher, Henning: Port Guide Hamburg. Zeise-Verlag, Hamburg 1999.
- Wolfgang Rudhard: The community center in Hamburg. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1975.
See also
Web links
- Deichstraße on the official homepage of Hamburg
- Association "Save the Deichstrasse" with further information
- "Map of Hamburg 1868" with street search and interactive map
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 5, 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.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '46 " N , 9 ° 59' 14.3" E