Fritz-Löffler-Strasse
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| Fritz-Löffler-Straße from the main train station to the south | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Dresden |
| District | Südvorstadt |
| Created | 1868 |
| Hist. Names | Reichsstrasse, Juri-Gagarin-Strasse |
| Connecting roads | At the main train station, Fritz-Löffler-Platz |
| Cross streets | Bayrische Strasse, Friedrich-List-Platz , Lindenaustrasse, Schnorrstrasse, Reichenbachstrasse |
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| User groups | Motor traffic , pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | approx. 700 meters |
The Fritz-Löffler-Straße is a 700-meter-long main road in Dresden Südvorstadt . As part of federal highway 170 , it is part of the important arterial route from the city center to federal highway 17 and into the Eastern Ore Mountains . It bears the name of Fritz Löffler , an art historian who worked in Dresden.
Location and course
The street begins on the south side of Dresden Central Station as a continuation of the street “Am Hauptbahnhof” at the intersection with Bayrische Strasse and Friedrich-List-Platz . Then it runs - with the exception of the last section from Reichenbachstraße - almost straight and even to the south-southwest to Fritz-Löffler-Platz , where it meets Berg and Münchner Straße . Fritz-Löffler-Straße and Reichenbachstraße have the only real crossing, the two crossings of Lindenaustraße and Schnorrstraße have been cut off for motorized traffic and can only be used as footpaths.
Along its entire length, Fritz-Löffler-Strasse forms the border between the statistical districts “Südvorstadt-West” and “Südvorstadt Ost”. Within the subdivision of the Dresden city area according to districts , the street is located in the district of Altstadt II .
history
The connection established in 1868 between the center and the up-and-coming southern Dresden suburb was originally a connecting road to Prager Strasse . In 1871 it was called Reichsstraße , and today's Fritz-Löffler-Platz was also named Reichsplatz. Reichsstraße developed into an important business center in the southern suburb and was densely built up.
Between 1883 and 1896 a horse-drawn tram ran along Reichsstraße to Reichenbachstraße. After that, the line was initially electrified with the help of underground lines, as it was feared that the use of overhead lines for power supply would affect the equipment at the technical university. Until the main train station was built in 1898, there was a level crossing over Reichsstraße at the Bohemian train station .
Almost all of the buildings on the Reichsstraße fell victim to the air raids on Dresden in 1945 during the Second World War. In the following GDR era, the street was rebuilt and redesigned in line with socialist urban development . The Reichsstraße was not given its direct connection to Prager Straße, which was converted into a spacious pedestrian area, but was instead connected to the newly created direct north-south axis (now St. Petersburger Straße ) from the main train station to today's Carolabrücke .
In the 1960s it was renamed “Yuri Gagarin Street” in honor of the Soviet space pioneer Yuri Gagarin . This street name lasted until the fall of the 1990s. In 1993 it got its current name.
Until the beginning of the 21st century, the tram tracks were in the middle of Fritz-Löffler-Straße. During the four-lane expansion as a feeder road to the BAB 17, they were relocated to the western side of the road and the confluence with Lindenaustraße was also removed.
Development
After the road was laid out, numerous residential and commercial buildings as well as town villas were built. In the years 1883 and 1884, the American foreign colony had St. John's Church built in the historicist neo-Gothic style. During the air raids, it burned down completely, except for the tower, and was blown up in 1959 after rebuilding was not approved.
The Russian Orthodox Church of St. Simeon von der Wunderbar is the only building on Reichsstrasse to survive the bombardment. This sacred building, built between 1872 and 1874 based on designs by Harald Julius von Bosse and Karl Weißbach , measures 13 × 33 meters and has five onion domes in the style of Russian sacred buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries.
After the rubble had been cleared, new buildings were built along the street in the 1950s. One of the first was a student residence designed by Wolfgang Rauda and built between 1953 and 1955. Today it is a listed building. Part of the building is still a student residence hall, while one wing of the building is the seat of the Dresden Student Union . In the first few years, only the west side of the street was affected by construction activity. Between 1966 and 1968, a second building was built north of the first dormitory, mainly for foreign students. What is striking about it are the concrete reliefs above the entrances. They symbolize building physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics. The east side of Juri-Gagarin-Straße was only designed in 1983 with ten-story slab construction . They are some distance (up to 60 meters) from the roadway, and access is via Hochschulstraße . In between there are lawns and rows of trees.
After 1990, the “City Center”, an office and business complex, was built at the north end of the street opposite the main train station, which is best known as the headquarters of the energy supplier ENSO Energie Sachsen Ost .
traffic
For road traffic, there are two structurally separate directional lanes with at least two continuous lanes. There are up to four strips for one direction at intersections. In the 2012 traffic volume survey, around 28,000 vehicles used the section between Reichenbachstrasse and the main train station, and around 24,000 vehicles used the section between Reichenbachstrasse and Fritz-Löffler-Platz. The share of heavy goods traffic was around five percent. There are parallel parking spaces on the right-hand side of the road in the city center.
The Dresden tram system runs along the west side of Fritz-Löffler-Straße . At the intersection of Reichenbachstrasse, lines 3 and 8 of the Dresden public transport company serve the “Reichenbachstrasse” stop. Buses in city traffic and overland routes operated by Regionalverkehr Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge GmbH also stop there .
There are footpaths and cycle paths on both sides of the street, at the level of Schnorrstraße there is a traffic light-regulated crossing over the lanes.
Web links
- Dresden districts: Fritz-Löffler-Straße
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 11.5 " N , 13 ° 43 ′ 55.7" E