Poets' Quarter (Wiesbaden)
The Dichterviertel is a residential area in the southwest of the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden , which was largely built around the turn of the 20th century in the style of historicism . Administratively it is now part of the Southeast District .
To the east of the Dichterviertel are the Wiesbaden main train station and the Lilien-Carré , in the northwest the Rheingauviertel borders. Significant buildings on the edge of the district are the Gutenberg School , the Luther Church , the Trinity Church , the State House and the Hessenkolleg .
Naming
The quarter owes its name to the naming of its streets. Most of the streets there are named after poets. However, the demarcation of the quarter is not clear: the planning area Dichterviertel contains only streets named after writers and Gutenbergplatz with the exception of Niederwaldstrasse. The adjoining Brentanostraße, named after Clemens Brentano , is no longer included. In contrast, the Dichterviertel park area also includes Alexandrastrasse, “Am Landeshaus”, Gutenbergstrasse, Sartoriusstrasse and parts of Biebricher Allee , Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring , Konrad-Adenauer-Ring , Mosbacher Strasse and Schiersteiner Strasse .
poet
There is a street name for the following writers in the poets' quarter:
history
When Wiesbaden experienced its heyday as a world spa town at the time of the empire , the emperor visited the spa every year in May and the city had the most millionaires in Germany, there was an enormous population growth (from approx. 33,000 inhabitants in 1870 to approx. 109,000 inhabitants in 1910) . This made extensive city expansion necessary. In addition to the extensive villa areas to the east and north, a mostly four-story closed residential development was built around the Ringstrasse ( Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring and Bismarckring ), in a quarter arc from the south-facing main station to the northwest-facing Sedanplatz around the historic center of the city, the so-called historical pentagon , led. The Dichterviertel was built in the south, the Feldherrenviertel in the northwest and the Rheingauviertel in between .
The town architect Felix Genzmer , who worked in Wiesbaden from 1881 to 1903, played a decisive role in its design . The richly decorated town houses were mostly built in the style of historicism and mostly housed manorial town houses with 3.50 meter high ceilings, stucco and double doors and often had huge dimensions of up to 200 m². In later years, these apartments were often divided into smaller units to make them easier to rent.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Division of the urban area into planning areas ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2012 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. , Office for Elections, Statistics and Urban Research, Wiesbaden; Retrieved June 22, 2010
- ^ Residential parking in Wiesbaden, area 9 PDF at www.wiesbaden.de ; accessed on April 2, 2019
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 7 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 10 ″ E