Georg-Bitter-Strasse

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Georg-Bitter-Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Basic data
city Bremen
district Eastern suburb and Hemelingen
Created around 1882
Newly designed 2001
Cross streets Osterdeich , Hastedter Osterdeich, Poelzigstr., Suhrfeldstr., Hamburger Str ., Auf der Hohwisch, Treviranusstr., Hermine-Berthold Str., At the Three Piles, Hastedter Heerstr.
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 900 meters

The Georg-Bitter-Straße is a street in Bremen . It forms the border between the Ostliche Vorstadt district, Peterswerder district and the Hemelingen district, Hastedt district . It leads in a south-north direction from Hastedter Brückenstraße and Karl-Carstens-Brücke to Bennigsenstraße.

The cross streets and connecting streets were u. a. named as Hasteder Brückenstraße as access to the Weserbrücke, Osterdeich and Hastedter Osterdeich after the eastern Weserdeich from 1881, Poelzigstraße after the architect, Suhrfeldstraße after a local field name , Hamburger Straße from 1881, Auf der Hohwisch after the hallway Hohwisch = high meadow, Treviranusstraße after the Doctor and natural scientist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus , Hermine-Berthold Strasse after the politician ( SPD ) and resistance fighter, Street without a name, At the Three Piles after the piles on the old state border between the Bremen suburb of Pagenthorn and Hastedt, which belonged to the Electorate of Hanover , Hastedter Heerstrasse from 1812, Bennigsenstrasse after the liberal politician Rudolf von Bennigsen ; otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

The area of ​​today's road was originally in the village of Hastedt and was often flooded. It has been protected by the Osterdeich since 1890 . Even then, this street was planned as a main thoroughfare and was given the name “Hastedter Ring”, a straight extension of Kirchbachstraße (today “Bennigsenstraße”). This name seems strange at first for a completely straight road. It is explained by the fact that, together with the "Schwachhauser Ring", the "Utbremer Ring" and the "Waller Ring" (all of which still bear these names today), it was supposed to form an extensive northern bypass to relieve the Bremen city center. In other words, future-oriented planning that began before Hastedt came to the city of Bremen in 1902. However, at that time it was not foreseeable that a far more efficient northern bypass would be built as early as the 1930s through the blockland motorway.

First, however, the Weserlust excursion restaurant was opened in this area in 1894 . In 1904 the botanist Georg Bitter (1873–1927) laid out the botanical garden next to it. After his death in 1928 the street leading to the Botanical Garden was named after him. The renaming did not cause much effort, as there was only one house on the street until the Second World War. Even today there are only a few houses with the address Georg-Bitter-Straße, as many adjacent properties are accessed from other streets.

In 1937 the Botanical Garden was relocated next to the Rhododendron Park . The site lay fallow for decades and was an insider tip for knowledgeable botanists, only around 2000 the last traces were removed when a car dealership was built.

In 1939 Hemelingen came to Bremen, in 1951 the Bremen districts were redistributed. Hastedt lost its area west of Georg-Bitter-Strasse, which became the district boundary.

In 1957, the Bremen motor vehicle registration office was built to the west of the street according to plans by Max Säum . Numerous car dealerships and workshops as well as the ADAC office have settled in this area . This concentration still exists, although the admissions office has long since been demolished.

Since 1963, tracks of the Bremen tram have been lying sideways in the street. Initially, a single-track route was created for line 10. Coming from the Steintor, this ran like line 2 to the Bennigsenstraße stop and then through the street to the new Georg-Bitter-Straße terminus. The return journey took place via Hamburger Strasse like line 3. In 1975, line 10 was extended to Sebaldsbrück , making the line an operational line, which is used a lot, especially at events in the Weser Stadium . Around 2000, the line was expanded to double-track with switches in all directions, so that diversions in all directions are now possible.

For a long time the road was of practically no importance for car traffic. It was even interrupted in two places and only accessible by bike. It was not included in the construction of the so-called "Strawberry Bridge " in 1971 over the Weser to habenhausen , formerly officially Werder Bridge, today Karl Carstens Bridge . It was not until 2001, over 100 years after its planning, that Georg-Bitter-Strasse was expanded and as a straight extension of the bridge to the main road.

Since then, the bus line 22 (Kattenturm - Karl-Carstens-Brücke - At the Three Piles - University ) has also been running here in Bremen .

Buildings and facilities

The buildings on the street usually have the house numbers of the cross or neighboring streets.  

  • The Weser promenade from the old town past the Weser Stadium and the Pauliner Marsch green zone to the Weser weir
  • Osterdeich 151: 2-tiered Car dealership with glass facade
  • Bunker on Georg-Bitter-Strasse
  • Between Suhrfeldstrasse and Auf der Hohwisch: Two rows of 2-gesch. Terraced houses with garages and a central access road
  • Poelzigstrasse 34–42: 4-storey. plastered houses in a larger housing estate
  • Hamburger Straße 270 to Treviranusstraße and to No. 19: 4- and 5-storey. plastered larger residential complex
  • Detmolder Str. 2 to 24: 2-sch. plastered houses with hipped roofs of a larger housing estate
  • No. 21-23: 2-sch. elongated car dealership with glass facade
  • No. 24: 2-sch. car dealer
  • No. 25/27: 5-cut. clinkered residential and commercial building (Hulsberg branch of Sparkasse Bremen ) from around 2017
  • In the case of the three posts 83 to 91: 3- and 4-fold. plastered houses
  • Hastedter Heerstraße 1: 1-gesch. Dealership and across the street
  • Hastedter Heerstraße corner Bennigsenstraße: 7-gesch. Office building from ADAC Weser-Ems

See also

literature

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 17 ″  E