Friedrichstrasse (Düsseldorf)

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Friedrichstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Düsseldorf
Friedrichstrasse
Friedrichstrasse with a view to the north to Graf-Adolf-Platz and LVA high-rise
Basic data
place Dusseldorf
District Unterbilk and Friedrichstadt
Created from 1854
Connecting roads North-south connection between Graf-Adolf-Platz and the railway embankment area of ​​Bilker Bahnhof
Cross streets from north to south: Adersstrasse; Luisenstrasse; Herzogstrasse; Fürstenwall; Kirchfeldstrasse; Bilker Allee and Bachstrasse
use
User groups Tram, car traffic, cyclists and passers-by
Technical specifications
Street length ≈ 1041 m

The Friedrichstrasse is a busy street in Dusseldorf , the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia .

It is located south of the city ​​center district . In its entire length it is the western border between the districts of Unterbilk and Friedrichstadt .

Name and location

Like the Friedrichstadt district, the street was named "Friedrichstraße" in honor of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . It begins at Graf-Adolf-Platz and ends at the underpass of the railway embankment at Bilker Bahnhof. The western part of the street belongs to Unterbilk while the eastern part is in Friedrichstadt.

The multi-lane road runs from north to south, it is 1041 meters long. Almost its entire length is a one-way street facing north. Only the last small area from Bachstraße to the railway underpass at Bilker Bahnhof can be used in both directions. In this section, Friedrichstraße merges with its counterpart, the one-way street Elisabethstraße, which leads from the north to the south, to Merowingerstraße. Since there are tracks with green spaces on the Wehrhahn Line underground tram between the directions of travel , both directions are still declared as one-way streets.

Infrastructure

Until 2016, Friedrichstrasse was a one-way street with at least three lanes over its entire length with two through lanes, which, thanks to the almost uninterrupted green wave and dedicated lanes for turning, handled a high traffic load. Together with its counterpart, the neighboring Elisabethstrasse to the west, it relieved the two eastern access roads Corneliusstrasse (L 52) and Berliner Allee . With the opening of trunk line 3, which runs underground except for two stops, the tram track previously located on the left of the two through lanes was sealed and shortly thereafter a through lane was partially reoriented into a 1.60 m wide bicycle lane, so that Friedrichstrasse only runs in one lane on many sections.

From the intersection with Bilker Allee, Friedrichstrasse and Elisabethstrasse will merge again to form a continuous four-lane road that can be used in both directions. Behind the Bachstraße junction, the section that is visually part of Elisabethstraße due to the design also bears the name of Friedrichstraße. In this area, between the two directions of travel, there is the ramp for the entry and exit of the railway into the underground and the tracks of the tram, which now runs above ground to the south.

Shortly after this section, Friedrichstrasse forks into the south-west running, also lively shopping and residential street Aachener Strasse, in the middle of the north-south axis Merowingerstrasse (which joins the Südring (B 326)) and the south-east running Brunnenstrasse, which in turn shortly thereafter merged with Heeresbachstrasse to form the also lively shopping and residential street, Himmelgeister Strasse.

Friedrichstrasse is one of the shopping streets close to the center of Düsseldorf with the highest turnover. A large number of shops cover both daily needs for consumer goods and the supply of durable goods. One of the centers for purchasing these goods is the Düsseldorf Arcaden , which opened in 2008 in front of the embankment at Bilker Bahnhof. Various catering establishments are also located in the entire area of ​​the street.

Due to many factors, Friedrichstraße is currently counted among the more dangerous, confusing and difficult to drive on for all road users (as of May 2018). Due to the elimination of the tram and thus of the stops with associated traffic lights and lane markings, it is often difficult for the vehicle driver to distinguish between the lane markings of the old lane that are still clearly visible in the asphalt and the markings that are still valid but can only be recognized faintly.

With the tram tracks that do not always follow the course of the lane, are still present, but are sealed, there is a further influence that makes driving more confusing. The constant emergence and elimination of further lanes and the associated S-curves of the through lane increase the probability of an unintentional change of lane and an accident. Likewise, in the past, unannounced or not indicated early lane constrictions and lane mergers led to dangerous situations and sheet metal damage.

People looking for a parking space and the blockade of a thoroughfare often cause slow-moving traffic. Cars parked on the roadside and in the second row and delivery traffic for the shops narrow the lane, so that vehicles often switch to the cycle path at short notice. Cyclists turn to the sidewalks, mainly because of the delivery traffic, which, with a width of less than 1.50 m, are often perceived as too narrow due to the large number of passers-by.

Shortly after the introduction of the bicycle lane, Friedrichstrasse was considered a hotspot for accidents.

history

Until 1891

City map 1854 / building and leveling plan for the expansion of the city of Düsseldorf

Until the middle of the 19th century, the area south of the city ​​center had not yet been developed for urban development. Although a first development plan had been drawn up for the area that would later become Friedrichstadt from 1831, it was not until 1846 that the development of the site began. With a royal decree of May 22, 1852, the names for the two western north-south streets in the new construction area were Elisabethstrasse and Friedrichstrasse. From July 3, 1854, the official approval of the development plan followed and the creation of the new urban area began.

Düsseldorf, Friedrichstrasse, European Court, late 19th century

From the city map of 1854 it can be seen that a chessboard-like arrangement of the streets was planned for the first phase of the construction of the new district. At first, the area extended in the west from Friedrichstrasse to the east on what would later become Corneliusstrasse. In the north, the new urban area was bordered at that time by the stations and tracks of the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . The Graf-Adolf-Platz and the Graf-Adolf-Straße could be created only later after the dismantling of the equipment for the railroad.

In the south, the area to be built on initially ended at Bilker Allee. Cross streets were planned for the later Luisenstrasse, Herzogstrasse, Fürstenwall and Kirchfeldstrasse. Between the station building of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn, which was on the Friedrichstraße No. 2 property, there was only space for corner property No. 4 before the intersection with Luisenstraße. This cross street was still called Eller Straße in 1859, but was already called Luisenstraße in 1865 and then wrote Louisenstrasse.

In 1859, in addition to Friedrichstrasse, only Herzogstrasse and Bilker Allee can be identified by name. The church square has already been mentioned, but this area was still largely undeveloped. At this point in time, houses no. 1 to 61 had all been built on the west side of Friedrichstrasse up to Herzogstrasse. In building no. 1 at the beginning of the west side of Friedrichstrasse and the corner of Thurmstrasse there was evidence of a restaurant as early as 1859. This building was expanded in 1860 to form the “Europäische Hof” hotel, which was a well-known inn in this area of ​​the city under various tenants and owners until the Second World War . The restaurant of the same name still existed in the 1970s.

On the east side, building no. 2 on Thurmstrasse was the station building of the "Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft", which was built before 1854, followed by building no. 4. Between the latter building and no. 6 was Luisenstrasse in 1865, then Louisenstrasse written, created. This was followed by houses No. 10 to 44, which had already been built. The latter building No. 44 was the Dominican monastery and chapel , built from 1867 to 1870 . From the intersection with Herzogstrasse to Bilker Allee, only a few houses had been built in the northern area up to this point.

After the first construction phase until mid-1865, 596 residents already lived in this new urban area on Friedrichstrasse. In 1870 the order changed in "Kloster Friedrichstrasse No. 44". Instead of the Dominicans, the order of the " Daughters of the Holy Cross " used this house until they moved to "Stiftplatz / Straße Altestadt " in 1877. In 1876 there was still one of the nuns of the Order of the "Daughters of the Holy Cross" in building no private girls' school was set up for a short time. Due to the Kulturkampf in Prussia, no other order had its establishment in the monastery building at Friedrichstrasse 44 for a few years after the nuns moved out until 1883. It was not until 1884 that a Catholic order, the “ poor servants of Jesus Christ ”, used the monastery with the Joseph chapel again. This order of nuns can be traced back to 1905 at this point, before the Dominicans took over the monastery again.

Dominican monastery on the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Herzogstrasse in Düsseldorf

For the construction and expansion of Friedrichstrasse, the intersections with Luisenstrasse, Herzogstrasse and Kirchfeldstrasse were paved in 1876. As early as 1877, a "horse-drawn railway" began operating on the Burgplatz route via the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft station to the Floragarten through Friedrichstrasse. The city administration carried out the necessary modifications to the pavement for this purpose. Shortly after operations from Burgplatz had started, however, this had to be stopped again on the northern part of the line up to the railway line. The reason was that it was not permitted to travel at ground level over the railroad tracks that were available here. Only after the route had been rebuilt was the connection to and from Burgplatz reopened on September 6, 1888. However, the passengers had to get off the rails before and after the railway tracks and cross them on foot.

With the increasing development at the beginning of the 1880s, in addition to the partially built-up Luisenstrasse and Herzogstrasse, the routes of the other cross streets running to the east, the Fürstenwallstrasse, later only known as Fürstenwall, and the Kirchfeldstrasse were laid out. Both streets were already present in the area of ​​the "Neustadt" to the west, but had not yet been expanded to Friedrichstrasse and beyond.

By resolution of the provincial state parliament of the Rhine province on December 14, 1882, the building at Friedrichstrasse No. 60 was purchased as a residence for the state director. He had his office here until 1895. The building was then converted into the headquarters of the Landesbank of the Rhine Province in 1896. In 1884 the “Provincial Association of the Rhine Province” built the buildings at Friedrichstrasse 66-70 as the owner. From 1897 the "Provinzial-Feuer-Sozietät", later called the "Provinzial-Feuerversicherungsanstalt", owned these buildings and had their main administration here.

In 1882 the street “Fürstenwall” between buildings no. 60 and 62 could already be occupied. The eastern boundary of the "Kirchplatz" on Friedrichstrasse was between properties no. 81 and 83. Kirchfeldstrasse was first mentioned in the address book of 1885 between buildings no. 88 and 90. The development ended at Bilker Allee with buildings No. 109 and No. 118.

Towards the end of the 1880s, the development of Friedrichstadt in the western area was largely completed with Friedrichstrasse. By 1888, 121 buildings had been erected on the street in which 1625 residents lived. Friedrichstrasse ended at Bilker Allee, with Brunnenstrasse continuing to the south. The area south of Bilker Allee was an industrial area at that time, in which various iron foundries and other commercial companies were located. In the north, the street began unchanged at the eastern end of Thurmstrasse and at the station building of the "Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn".

From 1892

Until the beginning of the 1890s, the tracks of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (successor company of the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn) and the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn were unchanged south of the old city center. They ran from the east in the area of ​​the later Graf-Adolf-Strasse to the beginning of Friedrichstrasse. While the Cologne-Minden railway ended at the station building in front of Thurmstraße, the tracks of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft continued parallel to Haroldstraße to the west towards the banks of the Rhine and from there to the Hammer railway bridge . Due to the location of this railway track, road traffic between the old center and the new southern urban areas was increasingly obstructed.

Düsseldorf, Friedrichstrasse, Hartoch department store (left), after 1900

From around 1890 a new route was therefore laid out, which began in the extreme south-east of the city area “Stadtmitte”. It led in the southern arc around the new Friedrichstadt area and as the border between Bilk and Unterbilk to the Hammer railway bridge on the Rhine. A new train station clearly to the east was at the beginning of the arch. After the commissioning of this central station on October 1, 1891, the previous western track systems with their stations and other associated infrastructure could be shut down and demolished. The Graf-Adolf-Straße was laid out on the former track route and started out as a continuation of the tower street in the amount of Friedrichstrasse. The extended south-eastern boundary of Friedrichstadt was also adapted to the new railway line.

In 1891, the southern end of Friedrichstrasse was indicated for the first time in a city map that was attached to the address book as “at the railway overpass” at Bilker Bahnhof. The Brunnenstrasse began accordingly only at the level crossing. The additional new Adersstrasse, named after the district court director and founder of the Aders Housing and Scholarship Foundation, Oskar Aders , was also marked in this city map. The beginning of Friedrichstrasse could be relocated a little to the north by demolishing the station building and enabled the creation of this new additional cross street.

From 1892 to 1894, the responsibility of the railway treasury was cited for the properties at Friedrichstrasse No. 2 and 4, but in 1894 with the addition "new building blocks" for No. 2 and 4. From 1895 private owners for the buildings No. 2 and 4a indicated on Friedrichstrasse. At the end of 1895, the second store of the Hartoch brothers' department store was located in No. 2. After building No. 4a, before the next No. 6, the new cross street “Adersstraße” north of Luisenstraße was also listed.

St. Peter's Church in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt around 1900

In 1900 the following lot numbers were given for the eastern development at the beginning of Friedrichstraße: The first building had the number 2 followed by 2a. A branch of the Hartoch brothers' department store was located here . Then Adersstrasse began, followed by building no. 4. The “Invalidity and Old Age Insurance of the Rhine Province” had its headquarters in this building. Luisenstrasse began and then building no. 6 was followed by further development up to no. 28c on Herzogstrasse . Before the intersection with Fürstenwallstrasse, the “Landesbank der Rheinprovinz” had its headquarters since 1896 in building no. Building No. 154, located after the corner building on Fürstenwallstraße, also belonged to the Landesbank. From 1902 the corner building at Friedrichstraße No. 4 was only listed under “Adersstraße No. 1”, since after Friedrichstraße 2a and the two cross streets that branched off, the corner building No. 6 followed Luisenstraße. Furthermore, the name of the invalidity and old-age insurance was changed to "Landesversicherungsanstalt der Rheinprovinz".

As early as 1889, an emergency church was built on the church square for the Catholics, who now lived in large numbers in the Friedrichstrasse area. This was replaced by the large St. Peter's Church, built from 1895 to 1898 . The southern area of ​​the street after Bilker Allee was meanwhile also largely developed. Residential buildings had been erected on the east side of the street. Only south of Bachstrasse was the enamel factory of “Weismüller. BG & Cie. ". On the western side, in this area between Kirchfeldstrasse and Bilker Allee, there were companies such as the iron foundry F. Schwarz and on plot No. 139 south of Bachstrasse the company "Hasenclever. CW Sons ”.

LVA Rheinprovinz, entrance Friedrichstrasse at the corner of Adersstrasse 1, after 1900
Administration building of the Provincial Fire Insurance Company of the Rhine Province, Friedrichstrasse 70/74 (on Kirchplatz ), 1936

At the turn of the century, the northern area at the Bilker train station was expanded to accommodate goods handling. In the square area between Bachstrasse, Bahndamm, western section of Güterstrasse and Friedrichstrasse, there were still companies. In the city map from 1905, the railway area extends to Bachstraße with several tracks and goods sheds. In addition, a "freight road" had been laid out in front of the eastern border of the site before 1902. This cul-de-sac took over the traffic connection for the transport of goods to and from the freight yard. The street curved from Bachstrasse to the southern end of Friedrichstrasse at the level crossing.

In 1905, Hasenclever was still the owner of property no. 129 (previously no. 139) on Friedrichsstrasse, but in the meantime, wagon companies had their branches in the two buildings 129 + 139 from Bachstrasse to Güterstrasse. In 1905, the Landesbank expanded its business premises on Friedrichstrasse from plot No. 60 to include plots nos. 56 to 58 for the Rhine Province by renovating. The Fürstenwall plot No. 154 continued to belong to this bank's building complex.

In 1906, the tram that had previously led over Friedrichstrasse to Floragarten was extended to Karolinger Platz. The level crossing at the end of Friedrichstrasse / beginning of Brunnenstrasse increasingly hampered traffic on this heavily used north-south axis. In order to solve this problem, the road connection and railway line were rebuilt in 1916 and crossing-free traffic was made possible with an overpass structure.

At the beginning of the 1910s, the freight handling area was extended to the east until just before Friedrichsstrasse and Güterstrasse was closed. The Güterstraße is only listed in the street directory of Düsseldorf until 1912. It is no longer included in the 1913 directory because the reconstruction and the eastern extension of the goods handling facility was carried out at that time. The 1924 city map shows the tracks and casemates in this area of ​​goods handling and its storage facilities up to Friedrichsstrasse.

In the 1930s, as it is now, Friedrichstrasse was an important road connection for traffic between the urban areas in the south of the city and the center. The tram lines 1 and 17 took over the local traffic in this area. A large number of shops for daily and long-term needs had their shops here. Also, the Stern-Verlag entertained in building no. 26 since the late 1920s his office. Important employers with their administrative centers were the branches of the "Landesversicherungsanstalt der Rheinprovinz" (in the building complex No. 1 Adersstrasse), the "Landeszentralbank der Rheinprovinz" transformed into the "Rheinische Girozentrale und Provinzialbank" (in the building complex No. 56-60 and No. 154 Fürstenwall) and the “Provinzial-Feuerversicherungsanstalt der Rheinprovinz” (in the building complex no. 66–74). There were also two cinemas (Alhambra-Lichtspiele in building No. 13–15 and the Crystal Palace in building No. 18–20), pubs / restaurants and hotels (for example in buildings No. 1, 3, 27, 55, 118, 127 and 128) available.

With more than 800 seats, the Alhambra light shows were one of the largest cinemas in the city. The head of the house was Franz Bruckmann, of Bruckmann & Co. AG. It was built by the architect Oskar Rosenthal, who also planned UFA houses. When it opened on October 14th, it had the finest cinema technology, for example a demonstration booth with three projectors from Leitz-Mechau-Werke . A "much praised" house band master provided the background music for the silent films. The minimum entry price was 70 pfennigs and 90 pfennigs in the evening. Predecessor buildings at this address were the Schaumburg-Lichtspiele, the Homann-Lichtspiele, the Düsseldorf amusement palace DVP and "Alt-Düsseldorf" from 1910.

From 1945

Former building of the Provincial Insurance

As in the entire city center, many buildings in the Friedrichstrasse area were badly damaged or destroyed during the war. From the end of the 1940s, the reconstruction began, partly with temporary makeshifts. The following data on the development of some larger areas of the building:

  • "Friedrichstrasse 1" . A large commercial building with many individual shops was built in place of the destroyed Hotel Europaischer Hof. This new building extends from the west side of Friedrichstrasse to the north side of Graf-Adolf-Platz. Only the latter area belongs to Graf-Adolf-Platz and is house number 6.
  • "Friedrichstrasse 6" . The building of the LVA of the Rhine province Adersstrasse No. 1, which was destroyed in the war, was replaced in 1978 by a new high-rise complex, which was built from 1972 to 1978. This new head office of the "Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland" in Düsseldorf extends over the entire area between Friedrichstrasse and Königsallee bordered by the cross streets Adersstrasse and Luisenstrasse. The complex consists of several building parts of different heights and, with a height of 122.7 m, was the tallest building in Düsseldorf for a long time. With the exception of a four-storey part of the building located between Adersstrasse and Luisenstrasse on Friedrichstrasse, which has the postal number Friedrichstrasse 6, the entire rest of the complex is listed under number 71 Königsallee.
  • Friedrichstrasse 13-15 . After an interruption due to the war, the Alhambra light shows reopened in 1949 at the same location . In 1968 the cinema closed for good; The Düsseldorf food chain Otto Mess then converted it into a supermarket. After the takeover by the Rewe Group , the supermarket operated under the name Minimal , later as Rewe . Finally, there is the DM drugstore .
  • “Building complex Friedrichstrasse No. 40–56” . The buildings of the former headquarters of the Rheinische Girozentrale and Provinzialbank on Friedrichstrasse 56–60 / Fürstenwall No. 154 (old numbers) were rebuilt from 1949 to 1952. On January 1, 1969, the merger with the Landesbank für Westfalen Girozentrale to form " WestLB " followed. From the 1970s, the rest of the site up to Talstrasse, bordered by the cross streets Herzogstrasse and Fürstenwall, was acquired by WestLB and a new corporate headquarters was built north of the old buildings in front of the Fürstenwall. Because of the shape of the terrace and the orientation of the new buildings towards Herzogstrasse, this new area is called "Herzogterrassen". This terrace house on Herzogstrasse is listed by post under number 15, while the parts of the building on Friedrichstrasse are recorded under numbers 40 and 40a to 40d.
  • “Building complex Friedrichstrasse No. 62–80” . The main building of the building complex Friedrichstrasse No. 66-74 (old numbers) was destroyed in 1943. The former dining room of the "Provinzial Feuerversicherungsanstalt der Rheinprovinz" in an undamaged part of the building was converted into a theater hall at the end of 1945. As early as December 12, 1945, theater operations began in the provisional facility known as the “New Theater”. Until 1947 the theater hall had to be left largely to the military government, but this phase ended from the 1947/48 season.
From 1951 the company traded under the name “Provinzial Feuer- und Lebensversicherungsanstalt”. By 1953, the Provinzial Versicherungsanstalt , also known as "Provinzial" for short, had built and moved into a new building on Friedrichstrasse. In 1995, the company moved to a newly built corporate headquarters in Düsseldorf-Wersten . The previous building on Friedrichstrasse was used by the subsidiary, the Provinzial “Sparkassen DirektVersicherung”, and other departments that belonged to WestLB.
  • "Friedrichstrasse No. 152" , the last property on the eastern side of the street in front of the railway embankment, was the location of the stamping and enamelling factory of BG Weismüller & Co. (at that time with property number 150). After the war, after the factory was repaired, operations continued, but later the company was dissolved, the site was sold and the factory buildings were demolished. After the construction of a new building, the Real department store chain opened one of its Düsseldorf department store branches on the property with a parking lot at ground level in front of it.

In addition to the larger building complexes listed above, which were rebuilt and given new addresses, some other new street assignments were also made after the war during the reconstruction. For example, the assignment changed for the southeast corner building at the beginning of Luisenstrasse. Instead of the old house number Friedrichstrasse 6, the corner building currently has the address Luisenstrasse no.1a followed by the building Friedrichstrasse no.8.

From 2000

Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt Herzogterrassen

As in the entire inner city of Düsseldorf, a phase of change began in the Friedrichstrasse area after the turn of the millennium, which included changes in the company structure as well as the demolition and construction of new buildings. This was exacerbated from January 2012 by the corporate crisis and the liquidation of WestLB, called for by the EU Commission . As a result of the division of WestLB, the area between the cross streets Herzogstraße and Kirchfeldstraße was severely affected, around 3,000 jobs were lost here, which contributed to a disadvantageous conversion in the street. The company formed from what was left of WestLB at the beginning of 2012, the financial services provider Portigon AG, sold all of WestLB's commercial properties in the Friedrichstrasse and Elisabethstrasse area to a property investor at the end of January 2014.

Düsseldorf Arcaden

The first major new building project was the construction of the Düsseldorf Arcaden at the southwest end of Friedrichstrasse from 2007. The Bilker freight yard with the casemates was shut down by the Deutsche Bundesbahn at the beginning of the 1990s. This created a larger demolition area on the edge of Düsseldorf city center, which required a new use. This resulted in controversial discussions for years both in the city council and among the population about the future development of the fallow land. Around 2003 an overall concept was drawn up for the entire area, which included the construction of a shopping center, new apartments, parking and open spaces as well as the inclusion of the area for the planned underground tunnel entrance and exit. After an additional survey of the population at the beginning of 2007, the foundation stone for the realization was laid in September 2007. The Düsseldorf-Bilk-Arcaden, renamed Düsseldorf Arcaden from 2014 onwards, opened with a public festival on September 20, 2008. Further details on the → Düsseldorf Arcaden

Another event that had a major impact on the situation in the Friedrichstrasse area was the financial crisis from 2007 , the effects of which are still having an impact. This led to the break-up of WestLB on June 30, 2012 and the split into three successor companies. As a result of the short-term strong staff cuts of the previous 4,000 employees at this location, there were inevitably negative effects on purchasing power and thus the conditions of the retail trade in the Friedrichstrasse area. The recycling of the extensive and high-quality business premises took time. The following changes have been made so far: As of February 2018

Fürst & Friedrich, construction site (2018)
Stern-Verlag (2007)
  • The terrace building on Herzogstraße sold by Portigon has been rented to various new companies. The older buildings in front of it on Friedrichstrasse / corner of Fürstenwall up to Talstrasse will be replaced by new six- or seven-storey commercial and office buildings. The two historical buildings restored after 1945, Friedrichstrasse at the corner of Fürstenwall No. 56-60 and Fürstenwall No. 154 (old building number) were demolished with the other houses up to Talstrasse for this new building complex from January 2017. Only the classical facade of the building on Fürstenwall (formerly Fürstenwallstraße 154), which was built from 1894 to 1895 according to plans by Hermann vom Endt , has been preserved and will be integrated into the new, wide glass facade. This historical part of the facade is adorned with the city coats of arms of Aachen, Düsseldorf, Trier, Koblenz and Cologne in the upper cornice area with reference to the former "Landesbank der Rheinprovinz ", which resided here at the time . The laying of the foundation stone for the new building complex, with the name "Fürst & Friedrich" derived from the location, took place in January 2018 and completion is planned for 2019.
  • The sold office buildings on Fürstenwall east of Kirchplatz were initially continued to be used by Portigon AG after 2012. After the first Portigon subsidiary, “Portigon Financial Services”, moved out at the end of 2013, parts of the complex were rebuilt and since 2014 the headquarters of the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of the Interior have been located at Friedrichstrasse No. 62-80. Since Portigon moved out at the end of 2016, the last activities of the former WestLB on Friedrichstrasse have ceased.
  • Another event that changed the appearance of the street was the closure of the Stern publishing house on March 31, 2016 at Friedrichstraße 24-26. After this large publishing house and bookstore closed, it has not yet been clarified what will happen to the extensive property that extends to Talstrasse.

outlook

Friedrichstrasse is currently in a state of upheaval and, according to the city's initial planning, will be rebuilt from 2018, but this is shifting significantly. Due to the discontinuation of the above-ground tram since the beginning of 2016, a revision of the street is necessary. The first plans for the implementation were presented by the city in 2013. Due to the consideration of objections from the population and the affected shop owners, the originally planned execution date was postponed from the end of 2015. As early as 2016, a wide cycle path was first laid on two parts of Friedrichstrasse north of Herzogstrasse on the three previously existing car lanes. However, the wide bike lane has so far had the reputation of a “chaos bike path” due to severe obstructions caused by car traffic . The disabilities affect not only cyclists, but also self-hindering car traffic in the two-lane areas. The remaining area of ​​Friedrichstrasse until shortly before the railway embankment will also be converted with this wide bicycle lane. The current plans provide for the following changes: (As of June 2017)

  • Removal of the tram tracks and creation of two car lanes and one wide bicycle lane.
  • Change of the current partially existing parking lanes on the street side for cars with the creation of loading zones for delivery vans, establishment of parking zones for short-term parking and parking facilities for bicycles
  • Widening of the sidewalks, which allow the creation of areas for street cafes, and the planting of street trees

In February 2019, the conversion work on the Bilker S-Bahn station to the Bilk Regiohalt will begin with the aim of having regional express trains stop there from December 2020. The number of entrants and exits is then expected to increase from 10,700 to 21,000. This is of great importance for the district and Friedrichstrasse.

In the spring of 2018, "The Friedrichs" was founded, an initiative of the residents of Friedrichstrasse, who advertised their location in October 2018 with their first festival, "Your evening on Friedrichstrasse". Further campaigns are planned for 2019.

Web links

Commons : Friedrichstraße (Düsseldorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1859 most of the new roads to be laid out still had no name. On the other hand, some older names were still in use for the area to be developed. In the large area west of the "Kirchplatz" were "Lohestrasse" and "Auf dem Kirchfeld" and to the east at the intersection of Corneliusstrasse and Herzogstrasse "Am Stadtfeld". Names that were later no longer used with increasing development in Friedrichstadt. It was not until 1865 that the name Luisenstraße between property no. 4 and 6 was first documented as a cross street. North of No. 4, however, the railway area with the station building was unchanged.
  2. ↑ In the texts of all address books that were published before the end of the 19th century, building No. 44 in the Friedrichstrasse area with Herzogstrasse is always cited as the location for the Dominican monastery. In contrast to this, a location south of Herzogstrasse on Thalstrasse was already drawn in the city map that was attached to the address book from 1890 (p. [14] -). Presumably, the alignment for the development in the area of ​​Friedrichstrasse between the cross streets Herzogstrasse and Fürstenwall changed after the 1880s. The monastery with its chapel was not located directly on Friedrichstraße, but rather offset to the east in the area of ​​Talstraße (at that time written Thalstraße).
  3. ↑ The plots No. 2 and 4 were now a little further north and are not identical to the old buildings No. 2 and 4. In the same address book from 1895, a building No. 2 was also listed at the beginning of Graf-Adolf-Strasse on Friedrichstrasse , which was still in front of house number 2 on Friedrichstrasse. The private owner ran a paper shop in this building. (Proof: S. [628] 550)
  4. ↑ This change has already largely been carried out along the entire length of Friedrichstrasse. However, the superfluous tram tracks have not yet been removed. In spite of the parking ban, cars are almost always parked in the second lane, so that the flow of traffic for cars in the entire one-way area is impeded.