Dizengoffstrasse

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Dizengoffstrasse to the south

The Dizengoff Street ( Hebrew רְחוֹב דִּיזֶנְגּוֹף Rəchōv Disengof ) is a major thoroughfare in downtown Tel Aviv . It is named after Me'ir Dizengoff , the first mayor of Tel Aviv.

The street begins in the south at the corner of Ibn-Gabirol-Straße and extends to the port in the north of the city . It crosses Zina-Dizengoff-Platz and connects the “ White City ” with Neveh Tsedek via the extension of King-George-Street .

history

The street in the 1930s

Dizengoffstrasse was laid out between 1927 and 1929 as part of the Geddes Plan as the main traffic axis of the northern inner city of Tel Aviv. In 1925, Mayor Me'ir Dizengoff won over the Scottish town planner Sir Patrick Geddes to design the first major systematic urban expansion. With the inclusion of already existing quarters, Geddes planned a grid of main thoroughfares and side streets as well as public squares, which formed the basis for the development of the White City .

Dizengoffstrasse quickly developed into a busy shopping street and became a symbol of the new era. In its heyday it was even referred to as the " Champs-Élysées of Tel Aviv". It found its way into the Hebrew language with the term l'hizdangef (להזדנגף) - roughly translated as dizengoffen (" Walk along Dizengoffstrasse.").

An International Style building on the corner of Ben Gurion Blvd.

In the 1970s, the building of a shopping mall, the Dizengoff Center , slowly decayed the street. The less sensitive conversion of the Zina-Dizengoff-Platz from a roundabout with an idyllic park to a multi-storey expressway junction also contributed to the decreasing popularity of the street.

The southern section of the road in particular was affected by this decline. To the north of Zina-Dizengoff-Platz there are still high-quality fashion stores, as well as a large number of small cafés and bistros. In recent years there has been a general upswing in the area: Many of the partly badly dilapidated monuments in the White City have been restored and supplemented by high-quality new buildings. Since autumn 2019, the square has been a central point of attraction thanks to the dismantling of the pedestrian ramps and the restoration of the original shape.

Dizengoff Square 2019

literature

  • Maoz Azaryahu: Tel Aviv. Mythography of a City . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY 2006, ISBN 0-8156-3129-4 .
  • Barbara E. Mann: A Place in History. Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space . Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 2006, ISBN 0-8047-5018-1 , (Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture).
  • Nahoum Cohen: Bauhaus Tel Aviv - An Architectural Guide . Batsford, London 2003, ISBN 0-7134-8792-5

Web links

Commons : Dizengoffstraße  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nahoum Cohen: Bauhaus Tel Aviv - An Architectural Guide . Batsford, London 2003, ISBN 0-7134-8792-5 , p. 10 ff.
  2. ↑ travel.yahoo.com

Coordinates: 32 ° 5 '8 "  N , 34 ° 46' 28.5"  E