Findorffstrasse (Bremen)

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Findorffstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Basic data
city Bremen
district Findorff (Bremen)
Created 19th century
Newly designed 2018/19
Cross streets Falkenstrasse, Breitenweg , Friedrich-Rauers-Str., Plantage, Admiralstrasse. , Theodor-Heuss- Allee, Goesselstrasse, Brandtstrasse, Sommerstrasse, Buddestr., Grünbergstrasse, Thielenstrasse, Eickedorfer Strasse , Hollerallee
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 1000 meters
Bundeswehr high-rise, beginning of Findorffstrasse
Bürgerweide with free market
No. 51: Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
Exhibition hall 7
Exhibition halls 4 and 5

The Findorffstraße is a central access road to Bremen , district Findorff , districts Findorff citizens pasture and some in the district of Bremen-Mitte. It leads in a south-west-north-east direction from Falkenstraße to Findorffallee / Eickedorfer Straße and Hollerallee .

The cross streets and connecting streets were named u. a. as Falkenstraße from 1859 after Vogel, Breitenweg as a particularly wide street laid out in the 19th century, Friedrich-Rauers -straße in 1965 after the economic historian and archivist (1879–1954), plantation from 1860 after the excursion restaurant Bluhms Plantage , Admiralstraße after the Admiral as Marinerang, Theodor-Heuss- Allee after the journalist, politician ( FDP ) and first President of the Federal Republic of Germany Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), Goesselstraße after the captain Kurt von Goessel (1852–1895), Brandtstraße from 1875 and 1906 after the Sparkasse director and politician Wilhelm Brandt (1818–1888), Sommerstraße after the season, Buddestraße from 1904 after the Prussian Railway Minister and Major General Hermann von Budde (1851–1906), Grünbergstraße after the chairman of the railway workers' pension fund, Thielenstraße after the politician, head of the Reichseisenbahnamtes and Prussian Minister of Public Works Karl von Thielen (1832–1906), Eickedorfer Straße after the place Eicked orf (Low German Eekdorp , Eicke = oak) in the community of Grasberg , Hollerallee after the merchant and sponsor of the Bremen public park Hermann Holler (1818–1868) and Findorffallee after the district; otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Surname

Findorffstrasse was named after the district and this after Jürgen Christian Findorff (1720–1792), who decisively promoted the colonization of the Teufelsmoor .

development

The Kuhgraben , a canal running across the Wümme , included in its course in the Middle Ages a. a. also Findorffstrasse. In 2007 a landing stage for tourist boat trips was set up at today's southern end of the Kuhgraben.

In 1875 Findorff had 2500 inhabitants. Since 1893, the area of ​​the railway line, Münchener Strasse, Hemmstrasse, Neukirchstrasse and Findorffstrasse was built with one and two-story houses. In World War II, many houses were destroyed here. The street is characterized by the post-war buildings.

From 2016 renovations took place on the street and the canal, which lasted until 2019 due to a construction defect.

traffic

In transport in Bremen bus number 25 (Weidedamm South ↔ Osterholz) passes through partially the street.

Buildings and facilities

There are mostly three to five-story buildings on the street, many from the post-war period.

Notable buildings and facilities

  • Corner of Falkenstrasse 45: 15-storey. Bundeswehr high-rise from 1968 based on plans by Willi Bornemann, senior building officer at the Bremen regional finance office, former seat of the Bremen district military replacement office
  • Breitenweg 53: 7-gesch. Commercial and office building from the 1970s
  • Friedrich-Rauers-Straße 22: 5-storey. 1960s office building
  • Findorfftunnel and the Bremen - Bremerhaven railway line
  • Findorffstraße 22/24: 1-gesch. private Bremen radio museum from 1978 on 400 m² exhibition space with approx. 700 exhibits
  • No. 11: 7-gesch. Office building of Stadtwerke Bremen ( swb AG )
  • Corner of Theodor-Heuss-Allee 20
    • 5-tier New building of the head office of swb AG from 1990 with a basement according to plans by Manfred Schomers and Rainer Schürmann
    • 5-tier Converted, clinkered old building from around 1930 with a mansard roof and circular building in the inner courtyard
  • 28-32: 6-sch. Hotel from around 2016 with a round corner to Admiralstrasse
  • Bürgerweide as an event area u. a. the Bremer Freimarkt and the Osterwiese , the Bremen flea market and other parking lots; stand on the edge of Findorffstraße:
  • No. 68 to 114: 4-ply Residential and commercial buildings from after 1960, with two cross streets facing Findorffstrasse being built over
Memorial plaque at the Schlachthof cultural center

Memorial plaques

  • Memorial plaque from 1995 in memory of the genocide of Sinti and Roma

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ architecture guide bremen: exhibition and event center

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 15.7 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 27.2"  E