Georgstrasse (Bremerhaven)

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Georgstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremerhaven
Georgstrasse
Georgstrasse, west side 84 - 42
Basic data
city Bremerhaven
district Geestemünde
Created 1860
Newly designed 1990s
Cross streets Bismarckstrasse , Arndtstrasse, Kreuzstrasse, Kolmarer Str., Theestr., Ramsauerstr., Grashoffstrasse, Posener Str., Max-Dietrich-Str., Schmiedestr., Einswarder Str., An der Mühle , Pfarrstrasse, Bauernwall, Lenthestr. , Georg-Seebeck-Str., Weidestr., Nansenstr., Ostrampe, Hoebelstr.
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design two and four lane roads
Technical specifications
Street length 2000 meters

The George Street is a historical street in Bremerhaven , district Geestemünde. As the main thoroughfare, it leads in a north-south direction from Elbinger Platz / Elbestraße to Weserstraße , further towards Wulsdorf .

It is divided into the sub-areas:

  • Elbinger Platz to Grashoffstraße
  • Grashoffstraße to the ramp / Weserstraße .

The cross streets were named as Bismarckstraße after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , Arndtstraße after the writer Ernst Moritz Arndt , Kreuzstraße, Kolmarer Straße after a town in Alsace , Theestraße, Ramsauerstraße, Grashoffstraße, Posener Straße after a town in Poland , Max-Dietrich-Straße , Schmiedestraße , Einswarder Straße, An der Mühle (formerly Mühlenstraße), Pfarrstraße an der Marienkirche , Bauernwall, Lenthestraße after Carl August Lenthe, from 1877 to 1889 the last mayor of Geestendorf, Georg-Seebeck-Straße after the shipyard operator Georg Seebeck , Weidestraße , Nansenstraße after the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen , Ostrampe (led up to the former railway bridge) and Hoebelstraße; otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Surname

Georgstraße was named in 1860 after King Georg V (Hanover) , who ruled when the town was founded . It was previously called Bremer Landstrasse .

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 1860, the Bremer Landstrasse, east of the ports, was expanded and was now called Georgstrasse. The joint municipal administration of Geestemünde and Geestendorf remained in the building at Georgstrasse 77 from 1889 to 1944 after the two places were united.

Reichsstraße 6, later Bundesstraße 6 , to which Georgstraße belongs (s) has been running from Wesermünde to Breslau since 1934 and from Wesermünde via Langen to Cuxhaven since 1937 , initially through Hafenstraße. At the end of the 1970s, after the opening of the Federal Motorway 27 , part of the B 6 was replaced by the A 27.

In the November pogroms of 1938 , the Schocken department store (formerly S. Hirsch department store) at Georgstraße 51 was devastated by the SA .

75% of all buildings in Geestemünde were destroyed in the Second World War .

In 1953 Wilfried Springbrunn opened the Europa cinema , which was called Apollo from 1963 , existed until 2007 and had 649 seats. Two more cinemas (Admiral, Rex) were also on the street at this time.

traffic

There was a horse-drawn tram since 1881 . In 1891 the track in the street was extended to the Schweizer Halle . From 1898 to 1908 it was converted into an electric tram with 5 lines.
From 1960 to 1982 the tram ran with the lines 2 ( Geestemünde - bus depot city limits Langen) and 3 (main station - Rotersand - Rickmersstrasse - station Lehe ) through the Georgstrasse; the latter only until 1964. Before 1961, line 4 ran from Weserlust to the fishing port and line 3 ran through Wulsdorf.

Today (2018) the lines 504 ( Hauptbahnhof - Konrad-Adenauer-Platz - Fischereihafen ), 505 ( Wulsdorf - Hauptbahnhof - Rotersand - Stadtmitte - Langen - Debstedt ), 506 (Wulsdorf - Hauptbahnhof - Stadtmitte - Rotersand - Langen ) operate here on sections of the route. , 511 (express bus: Leherheide Ost - Rotersand - Stadtmitte - Wulsdorf) of the BremerhavenBus of the Bremerhaven Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH.

Buildings and facilities

There are only buildings from the post-war period on the street. Many of the predominantly four to six-storey houses are residential and commercial buildings and in the southern area residential buildings.

Architectural monuments

  • St. Mary's Church of the Romanesque and Gothic at the nearby Mushardstraße 2 and An der Mühle: Chapel from the 13th century, enlarged in the 15th century, reconstruction in 1875 and 1907, badly damaged in 1944, reconstruction by 1951.

Notable buildings

  • No. 2: 6-sch. Hotel Elbinger Platz .
  • No. 19/21: 5-cut. Residential and commercial building.
  • No. 42: Club headquarters of the dance sport club TSG Bremerhaven .
  • No. 45: Metropol-Lichtspiele from 1920 to 1943/44 with 382 seats, bombed.
  • No. 50: From 1953 to 1963 Admiral cinema with 700 seats.
  • No. 51: From 1929 to 1938 Schocken department store (previously S. Hirsch department store ) by Joseph Schocken
  • No. 73: 6-gesch. Residential and commercial building, from 1953 to 2007 Kino Europa or Apollo with 649 seats.
  • No. 77: From 1878 to 1894 it was the seat of the municipal administration and after the town hall was built from 1894 in what was then Bahnhofsallee (today: Klußmannstraße) until 1944, rooms for parts of the administration.
  • Corner of Georgstrasse and Keilstrasse (today Grashoffstrasse): Geestemünder Schauspielhaus from 1908. This was later the Metropol cinema.
  • No. 119/121: From 1957 to 1989 Rex cinema with 800 seats; tore off.
  • Nansenstraße to Rampe: allotment area / industrial area.

Memorial stones

  • Stumbling blocks in Bremerhaven
    • No. 17: for Julius Gumprich (1882–1942) and Martha Gumprich (1892–1942), both murdered in Minsk .
    • No. 24: for Carla Kiefer (1909), Constantin Kiefer (1868), Dr. Leo Kiefer (1903), Erich Kiefer (1911), Lina Kiefer (1880), all fled 1934/37 a. a. to Chile.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven route networks. Retrieved April 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ Paul Homann: VGB-Nachrichten. Retrieved April 20, 2019 .
  3. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  4. ↑ Hermann Schwiebert: Memories of Georgstrasse : In: DeichSPIEGEL - The online magazine from Bremerhaven.
  5. ^ Hermann Schwiebert: The department store Schocken : In: DeichSPIEGEL - The online magazine from Bremerhaven.
  6. ^ Hermann Schwiebert: The Apollo cinema in Bremerhaven : In: DeichSPIEGEL - The online magazine from Bremerhaven.

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 39 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 23"  E