Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse (Bremerhaven)

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Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremerhaven
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse
Southern part of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße
Basic data
city Bremerhaven
district Geestemünde
Created from around 1908
Cross streets Hohenstaufenstrasse, Rudolfstrasse, Rheinstrasse , Dürerstr., Gutenbergstrasse, Nürnberger Strasse, Wormser Strasse, Bismarckstrasse , Yorckstrasse, Grashoffstrasse, Straßburger Platz, Johannesstrasse, Metzer Strasse, Alfred-Balzer-Strasse.
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design Two- and four-lane roads, often with a green median
Technical specifications
Street length 1300 meters

The Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse is a main road in Bremerhaven . It became necessary before 1914 with the construction of the Bremen – Bremerhaven railway line and connects Mitte (Bremerhaven) with Bremerhaven main station . Like an incomplete and inverted C, it encloses the core of the Geestemünde district . South extension leads Metzer Straße further Schiffdorferdamm and Geestemünde-South. It begins below the Alte Geestebrücke on Elbestrasse and ends at the dairy, An der Mühle 44.

history

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The street was named in 1949 after the first Reich President and SPD chairman Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925). Ebert and his party had taken over the government in the Weimar Republic in November 1918 . Before that, the street in the northern section called the Hohenzollernring was reminiscent of the ducal house that had provided the Prussian kings and German emperors . From the train station to the southern end it was called Deutscher Ring.

development

After 1827, with the establishment of Bremerhaven, the neighboring Kingdom of Hanover built a port from 1844 to compete with it. This started the rise of Geestemünde, which was given this name in 1847. In 1848 only 59 citizens lived in the village. In 1862 the Bremen – Bremerhaven line was built and in 1896 the Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven line was built . During this time, the place expanded from Georgstrasse, which was expanded in 1860, towards Schillerstrasse . Geestemünde, Bremerhaven and Lehe grew closer and closer together. The Ludwigstrasse coming from the Alte Geestebrücke was extended in 1909 as Hohenzollernring beyond the Bremerhaven branch line as an access road to the new Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the new secondary school (Wilhelm Raabe School). The new Wulsdorf – Bremerhaven railway went into operation in 1914. The Geestemünder Bahnhof as the terminus on Klußmannstrasse was abandoned as a passenger station. The new Geestemünde-Bremerhaven station was built on the new main line by 1914. The continuation of the Hohenzollernring to the new station was called from 1914 to 1920 - as long as the old Bahnhofstrasse to the Geestemünder station had not yet been renamed Max-Dietrich-Strasse - Neue Bahnhofstrasse. She was then included in the Hohenzollernring. On October 31, 1949, the Hohenzollernring and the continuation to the street An der Mühle, the Deutsche Ring, were given the common name Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. It opened up the largely undeveloped area between Schillerstrasse and the new railway. There were gardens on its west side until the 1950s.

traffic

There has been a horse-drawn tram since 1881 . From 1898 to 1908 it was converted into an electric tram company with up to five lines.
From 1960 to 1982 the tram with lines 2 ( Geestemünde - Langen bus depot) and 3 (Hauptbahnhof - Rotersand - Rickmersstraße - Lehe station ) ran through Geestemünde; the latter only until 1964.

From 1947 to 1958 trolleybuses drove from Schiffdorf to Geestemünde; from 1949 on to Stresemannstraße / city administration.

Today (2019) all bus routes of the BremerhavenBus of the Bremerhaven Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH (BVV), which pass Bremerhaven Central Station , operate here .

Cross streets

The cross streets were named after the Elbe (formerly Alte Poststrasse), the Staufers , Rudolf, the Rhine , Albrecht Dürer , Johannes Gutenberg , Nuremberg , Worms , Otto von Bismarck , Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg , Hans Grashoff , Strasbourg , the innkeeper Johannes, Metz , Alfred-Balzer-Strasse (?) And An der Mühle; otherwise see the link to the streets.

  • Bay Street

  • Grashoffstrasse

building

After the destruction caused by the air raids on Wesermünde , many new buildings were built on the street in the post-war period . Many of the predominantly four to five-storey houses are residential buildings, with a few residential and commercial buildings. The frequent red stone facades characterize the balanced, uniform street scene.

  • Beginning of the street, Elbestrasse

  • Chamber of Commerce

  • Gymnasium and Chamber of Commerce

  • Across from the main train station (1974)

  • Corner of Metzer Strasse

Architectural monuments

  • No. 1: 4- to 5-layered Publishing house, residential and commercial building from 1930 based on plans by Gustav Claas as the Norddeutsche Volksstimme publishing house for the former social democratic newspaper (from 1890 to 1933) in the Bauhaus style. In 1938 this was the headquarters of the Secret State Police.
  • No. 4: 4-sch. Building of the Geestemünde Chamber of Commerce and the Bremerhaven Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1908 based on plans by city architect Karl von Zobel in the neo-renaissance style, with three oriels and two official apartments and rooms for the Reichsbank. In 1964/66 a hall building was added according to plans by Karl Franzius and Theodor Rosenbusch.
  • No. 10: 4-sch. Multi-wing Wilhelm Raabe School from 1908 based on plans by Karl von Zobel in the reform style of the time with elements of historicism and contemporary Art Nouveau.
  • No. 73: 1/2 storey, three-winged Bremerhaven main station according to plans by the Royal Building Councilor Ernst Moeller, with representative entrance hall, northern waiting halls for 1/2. and 3/4. Class as well as the southern three-story wing of the station administration.
Imperial Post at the train station
  • No. 75: 2-sch. 6-axis imperial post office, old post office or railway post office from 1914 according to plans by Postbaurat Schäffer (Hanover), built in connection with the new construction of the train station, with counter hall, parcel room and service rooms as well as with a baroque, 2-axis central projection with large volutes and new baroque styles Heraldic cartouche.

Notable buildings

  • No. 3: 3-sch. Former Reichsbank building from the 1920s in a conservative style, today an office building with offices
  • No. 64: 5-sch. Residential and office building with a branch of the Weser-Elbe Sparkasse.
  • No. 93: 8-gesch. Residential building as a corner building that characterizes the cityscape.

Memorial stones

Stumbling blocks in Bremerhaven

  • No. 83: for Ella Block (* 1893) Ernst Block (* 1891) and Marianne Block (* 1923); all fled to the USA in 1938.
  • No. 83: for Dorothea Goldmann (* 1903) Hermann Goldmann (* 1896); both fled to the United States in 1941.

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich-Ebert-Straße (Bremerhaven)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Like Wörther Strasse, Wormser Strasse was already in the development plan in 1906; but it was not expanded until 1951. Before that there was a garden area. For the eastern part, the imperial wife Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach was intended to give its name; but the name was discarded and the whole street was named after the Nibelungen city.
  2. ↑ Johannesstraße (formerly Johannisstraße) was one of the oldest streets in Neu-Geestendorf from around 1880. It is named after the court owner and church mayor Johann Norden (1805–1874).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Körtge: The street names of the seaside city of Bremerhaven , 3rd edition Heimatbund, Bremerhaven 1992.
  2. ^ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven route networks (ÖPNV). Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  3. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3061
  4. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3065
  5. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3064
  6. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3335
  7. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3334

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 6 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 52"  E