Deichtorplatz
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The Deichtorplatz is an important road node in the southeast of Hamburg city center , between the main railway station , Kontorhausviertel and Speicherstadt . As part of the main road network of Hamburg , it connects the federal highway 4 running here with the (Wall-) Ring 1 . The square is named after the Deichtor , a former city gate in the Hamburg city fortifications , and is known for the listed Deichtorhallen .
Location and description
The roughly right-angled square is around 1.8 hectares in size and, as it is today, was created in 1962/63 in connection with the then newly constructed East-West Road . The Federal Highway 4 passes under the northern part of the square in east-west direction and thus connects the Amsinckstraße the east with the Willy-Brandt-Strasse in the west. The northern flank of the square is currently still marked by the southernmost of the four City-Hof high-rise buildings, next to which the Klosterwall joins the square as the eastern end of the wall ring. Also on the northern edge of the square (north of the road tunnel) is the southern access structure to the Steinstraße underground station . Burchardstrasse , which leads into the Kontorhaus district , branches off to the northwest, the Oberbaumbrücke connects to the Speicherstadt in the south, and the historic Deichtorhallen are spread across the east and south-east sides.
history
The Deichtor (originally also Winsertor) had been the southeasternmost exit in the Hamburg city fortifications since the Middle Ages and connected the city with the area near the city dike and the nearby Hammerbrook . It was originally located near the Meßberg and was moved to what is now Deichtorstrasse when the city fortifications were expanded in the 17th century. In 1828 the old gate was torn down and replaced by several wide iron gates, which were locked every evening until the gate was closed in 1860.
The Hamburg building yard has been located directly on today's Deichtorplatz since 1660 , and was responsible, among other things, for maintaining the fortifications and other public buildings. It was demolished in 1847 in favor of the Berlin train station . As early as 1842, the first station for the Hamburg-Bergedorfer Railway was opened nearby , and a few years later it was extended to Berlin .
After the opening of Hamburg's main train station in 1906, the Berlin train station was demolished and the Deichtormarkt was built in the same place as the central food wholesale market by 1911 . It was supposed to replace the inner city markets that had become too small, especially on the Messberg and Hopfenmarkt . The square itself was still called Bahnhofsplatz until at least the 1920s .
With the breakthrough of Ost-West-Straße , the square was redesigned into a traffic junction in 1962. After the wholesale market had moved to the new halls in Hammerbrook , the old Deichtorhallen were renovated and reopened in 1989 as a culture and exhibition center.
The Deichtor-Center office building by architects BRT , located south of the square, received the Nike architecture prize in 2007 in the “best urban development interpretation” category.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nikolai Antoniadis: Art and potatoes. In: Quartier Magazin. June 2012, accessed October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ City map section from 1928 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 52 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 20 ″ E