Diedrich-Wilkens-Strasse

Diedrich-Wilkens-Strasse
	Street in Bremen
Basic data
city	Bremen
district	Hemelingen
Cross streets	Hemelinger Bahnhofstr. , Glockenstrr., Gießerweg, Kirchnerstr., Passenstr., Bertramstr., Girardonistr., Robertstr.
use
User groups	Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design	two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length	750 meters

The Diedrich-Wilkens-Straße is a central access road to Bremen , district Hemelingen , Hemelingen. It mainly runs in a west-east direction from Hemelinger Bahnhofstrasse to Robertstrasse.

The cross streets and connecting streets were named u. a. as Hemelinger Bahnhofstraße, which leads to the train station, Glockenstraße after the Hemelinger bell foundry Otto from 1874, Gießerweg after the iron foundry Gebr. Klencke, Kirchnerstraße after the director of the former aluminum and magnesium factory Wilhelm Kirchner (1887–1929), Passenstraße after the landowner Heinrich Passen , Bertramstraße after the building officer Bertram, Girardonistraße after the director (1895 to 1930) of the jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen Bruno Girardoni (1864–1934), Robertstraße 1856 after the farce Robert and Bertram by Gustav Raeder (1811–1868), which was much played at the time. ; otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Surname

The Diedrich-Wilkens-Straße was named after the entrepreneur Diedrich Wilkens (1811–1876). He was the owner and manager of the Hemelingen silver goods factory Wilkens & Sons from 1810. The old villa of the Wilkens family is now the Hemelingen community center on Godehardstrasse.

development

In the middle of the 19th century industrialization began with the connection to various railway lines in Hemelingen. The population increased sharply from 1855 to 1905 from 2275 to 7214 inhabitants.

In 1859 the three Wilkens brothers moved the cutlery production from Bremen to Hemelingen in Hanover at that time in order to produce more cheaply within the boundaries of the German Customs Union . The still existing company Wilkens & Sons grew steadily. The Hemelingen bell foundry Otto was founded in 1874 by Franz Otto from Duderstadt together with his brother Karl. The Hemelinger aluminum and magnesium factory was another company in this area at this time. After 1945, Nordmende produced in the former halls of the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory on the street. In 1977 the company was sold and closed until the end of the 1980s.

The small workshops Diedrich-Wilkens-Straße 49–53 of the workshop Bremen - Martinshof - Fahrrad-Shop have been located here since 1987.

traffic

After the construction of the Hemelinger Tunnel until 2003, the volume of traffic in the surrounding district fell, including in Diedrich-Wilkens-Straße.

In local transport in Bremen, the bus routes 40/41 (Mahndorf ↔ Weserwehr station) and 42 (Marschstraße ↔ Weserwehr) touch the road.

Buildings and facilities

There are mostly one- and two-story buildings on the street.

Notable buildings and facilities

Corner of Hemelinger Bahnhofstraße 29: 2-storey. former Wilkens villa and park with fountain
No. 1: 2-sch. Residential house with half hip
No. 5: 1-sch. Plastered building from the 19th century with a decorative cornice and dividing elements made of clinker bricks
No. 8: 2-sch. House from around 1900
No. 18: 3-sch. Newer building of the foundation village Hemelingen for senior citizens of the Bremer Heimstiftung with café as well as with library point of the city library Bremen and Kinderhaus Freunde vom DRK
No. 28: 2-sch. Detached house from around 1900 with accentuated gable tip and bay window
Between at No. 31 to 49: Green space and fallow land in the Hemelinger Tunnel area , previously there were industrial companies such as Nordmende and Focke-Wulf.
No. 49–53: 1- and 2-cut. Building group with u. a. the Bremen - Martinshof workshop , the Martinshof bicycle shop from 1987, the Hemelingen district marketing department
No. 54/58: 2-cut. Residential house from around 1890 with central gable risalit and formative neoclassical facade decoration
No. 78 to 86: 2-ply Residential houses from around 1900
No. 90 to 98: 2-ply brick-built residential complex with undesigned corner formation
No. 100: 2nd closed residential and commercial building from around 1900 with hipped roof
Note: On the parallel Godehardstrasse are

in no. 19 since 2008, the local exchange , in no. 4 since 1984, the community center Hemelingen and no. 25, the Catholic St. Godehard community .

Art objects

Wilkensbrunnen from 2004 in Wilkens Park

literature

Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. In two volumes. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X (first edition: 2002, supplementary volume A – Z). 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .

Individual evidence

^ Alfred Löhr: Bremen silver. From the beginning to Art Nouveau. (Handbook and catalog for the special exhibition from December 6, 1981 to April 18, 1982 in the Bremen State Museum / Focke Museum ) Bremen 1981.
↑ Lena Fellmann: 200 years of Wilkens Bremen silver goods. On the history of a Bremen family business. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 89 (2010), pp. 167–229.
↑ Ulrike Troue: Martinshof team gets the wheels rolling . In: Weser-Kurier from Jan. 26, 2012.

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53.057257 8.890624Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '26.1 " N , 8 ° 53' 26.2" E

[1] Alfred Löhr: Bremen silver. From the beginning to Art Nouveau. (Handbook and catalog for the special exhibition from December 6, 1981 to April 18, 1982 in the Bremen State Museum / Focke Museum ) Bremen 1981.

[2] Lena Fellmann: 200 years of Wilkens Bremen silver goods. On the history of a Bremen family business. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 89 (2010), pp. 167–229.

[3] Ulrike Troue: Martinshof team gets the wheels rolling . In: Weser-Kurier from Jan. 26, 2012.