Esplanade
Esplanade comes from French and originally means a leveled open area in front of a citadel that served as a field of fire , which also served as a parade and weapon place like the Schlossplatz (Münster) . In some places the term planie is also used. The term is still preserved as a street name today, such as the Planie in Stuttgart (there also the B 27 ) or the Grabenstrasse and Planie (-strasse) in Sindelfingen , also a street in Reutlingen .
Like other open spaces in the fortress construction , such as the glacis along the city wall, the esplanade will be free for urban development measures after the urban fortification agreement , and will be used for squares , parks , promenades , galleries and wide streets ( boulevards ) or for new buildings at the latest in the early days of the fortress . For example, the former parade fields in Paris (in front of the Hôtel des Invalides ) and Riga as well as streets in Hamburg , Wesel , Berlin , Ingolstadt , Neumünster and Helsinki bear the name Esplanade .
Esplanade is also generally called squares and promenades in front of a larger public building, later occasionally also in gardens; While the aspect of the square predominates in French as well, the term in English denotes what today in German means promenade - in French promener , 'walk'. In terms of the promenade, the name can be found in Bad Liebenstein , Gmunden , Bad Ischl , Altmünster .
Building:
- Esplanade is also the name of a cultural center opened in Singapore in 2002 , which is similar in architecture to the durian fruit .
- Another esplanade is located in front of the Allianz Arena in Munich , which, 153 meters wide and 600 meters long, forms the access and at the same time the roof of the parking garages below.
Esplanade also refers to a section of track from the former Berlin border area (between West and East Berlin), with the stipulation that - if you stop there with a damaged locomotive - you have to move a red dimmed hand lamp up and down to the next border post, so as not to to be shot at as a presumed GDR refugee .
See also
- Esplanadi (park in Helsinki)
- Technical terms fortress construction
literature
- Werner Hahlweg : Esplanade , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 6, 1968, Sp. 25-26
Individual evidence
- ^ Eberhard Grunsky: The place in Münster and other esplanades . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Stadt Münster (ed.): Schlossplatz - Hindenburgplatz - Neuplatz in Münster 350 years of plenty of space . Tecklenborg Verlag, Steinfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-939172-94-9 , p. 131-141 .
