Fluthgrafstrasse

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Fluthgrafstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Wesel
Basic data
place Wesel
District Old town
Buildings former Arera bakery; historical: Klever Tor
use
User groups Motor vehicles , public transport , pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic

The Fluthgrafstraße is a downtown street of Wesel on the Lower Rhine.

location

The Fluthgrafstraße runs in a north-south direction on both sides of the Weseler Stadtring (in this section Herzogenring ) and is around 300 meters long. At its southern end, it is crossed by Martinistraße and to the south, a passage that cannot be used by motor vehicles leads to the Kornmarkt . This passage runs past today's town hall, the Wesel city library and the city ​​theater . About in the middle of the Fluthgrafstraße is crossed by the Herzogenring, which is part of the Weseler Stadtring and about 100 meters further west on the Bundesstraße 8 . In the north, the Fluthgrafstrasse ends at the western edge of the Nordglacis, which is part of the wooded Weseler Glacis .

history

The Klever Tor city ​​gate had stood in the south of today's Fluthgrafstrasse since 1700 . It was an entrance to the Wesel Fortress and was demolished in 1891 during the process of demolition. Land on the road was also used for military purposes beyond the demolition; in 1897 a new barracks was built for the 43rd Field Artillery Regiment. In July 1903 the street was named Oberbürgermeister-Fluthgraf- Straße after the still incumbent mayor of Wesel, who was about to retire, Joseph Fluthgraf , which was later shortened to its current form.

Following the introduction of trunk roads (later imperial roads) in 1932, the National Highway 8 led (now State Road 8) coming from Dinslaken coming over the Dinslakener highway and the ring road on the northern part of the Fluthgrafstraße, from where they to Reeser road towards Rees led . Furthermore, the Fluthgrafstrasse was part of the most important north-south axis through the city center, which led past the Kornmarkt and the Großer Markt further south . However, a new north-south axis along Kreuzstrasse and Korbmacherstrasse was planned and implemented in the initial plans after the Second World War . Since part of today's B 8 was not yet completed, traffic in the direction of Rees, Emmerich and the Dutch border was routed via Fluthgrafstrasse until December 1956.

Klever Tor frieze

In the process of reconstruction after the Second World War, it was initially unclear how the former barracks should be handled. A former guard building stood until 1961 and was demolished during the construction of an adjacent school center on Martinistraße. It bore the preserved frieze of the Klever Tor, which has been erected in the passage south of Fluthgrafstrasse since 1975. In 1974 and 1975 the building complex with the town hall, adult education center and city library was completed, and a parking deck for the city theater was built on Martinistraße near the confluence with Fluthgrafstraße. This was accompanied by the creation of the passage along the town hall, from April 4, 1974, the Fluthgrafstrasse was no longer usable for through traffic by motor vehicles. The northern part of Fluthgrafstrasse has also not been used as a through road since the completion of today's B 8, which runs further west, so that the formerly busy road is now rarely used.

A house on Fluthgrafstrasse, the former location of the Arera bakery, is a registered cultural monument. It is an Art Nouveau residential and commercial building and now includes the premises of a startup company.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Walks of a gable frieze (wesel.de)
  2. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 183
  3. ↑ Mayor Fluthgraf died on September 1, 1926 (wesel.de)
  4. ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 136
  5. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 184
  6. ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 101
  7. ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 101
  8. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 302
  9. ↑ Wesel: The modern office community (wesel.de)

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 39.4 "  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 37.6"  E