Gerhard-Rohlfs-Strasse (Bremen)
| Gerhard-Rohlfs-Strasse | |
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| Basic data | |
| city | Bremen |
| district | Vegesack |
| Created | after 1780 |
| Newly designed | 1980s |
| Cross streets | Fährgrund, Bermpohlstrasse, Halenbeck-Strasse, Kimmstrasse, Gerhard-Rohlfs-Passage, Breite Strasse, Sagerstrasse |
| Buildings | Branch of the Sparkasse Bremen , house of the Sparda-Bank , tax office Bremen-Nord |
| use | |
| User groups | Foot traffic |
| Road design | Pedestrian zone |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 700 |
The Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße is part of a pedestrian street , the main shopping street in Bremen - Vegesack . It leads in an east-west direction from Fährgrund / Lindenstraße past Sedanplatz to Breiten Straße / Sagerstraße.
The pedestrian zone is made up of Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße, parts of Breiten Straße and the eastern Reeder-Bischoff-Straße , which leads to Vegesack harbor , Vegesack train station and the Haven Höövt Vegesack shopping center .
The cross streets were u. a. named as Fährgrund after a corridor that leads into a valley to the ferry, Bermpohlstraße after the Vegesack navigation teacher Adolph Bermpohl (1833–1887), Halenbeckstraße after the local researcher and writer Lüder Halenbeck (1841–1895), Kimmstraße after the master builder Johann Friedrich Kimm, who laid the road in 1840, Gerhard-Rohlfs-Passage , Breite Straße , where old and new vege bags bordered one another and Sagerstraße after the shipbuilders Jürgen Sager (1777-1854) and Peter Sager (1809-1869).
history
Surname
The street was first called Langenstrasse .
It was named in 1910 after the Africa explorer and writer Gerhard Rohlfs (1831-1896), whose house where he was born was on this street (today No. 58). Rohlfs carried out his scientifically probably most important expedition from 1873 to 1874 on behalf of the Egyptian Khedive Ismail Pascha .
history
From 1618 to 1623 the Vegesack harbor, which belonged to Bremen, was laid out. That is why the village of Vegesack developed mainly to the west, which came to the Electorate of Hanover in 1741, albeit without the port, then returned to Bremen in 1803 and became a city in 1852. After 1773, Kur-Hannover developed a plan to settle the heather between Fähr and the Vegesack harbor, which was slowly implemented as Neu-Vegesack from around 1780 from the Fährgrund to the Breite Straße .
Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße, then Lange (n) straße , developed in the 19th century alongside Reeder-Bischoff-Straße and Weserstraße into the early main streets of Vegesack. Lange Straße was originally a lime tree avenue with a two-story residential area. In the absence of transport alternatives, traffic to Blumenthal was also carried through Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße until the 1960s.
The Tonhalle restaurant was located at no. 67, the first city theater in Vegesack that was permanently in use and had also been used as a cinema since 1911. It was demolished in 1961 to make way for a department store, which in turn gave way to a new building project in 2012.
The Sedanplatz was created in 1890 after the old poor house demolished and a mill burned down. The square was used for rallies and during the Nazi era as a parade area. The Vegesack market traditionally takes place here in September . After 1945 it was a large parking space for cars that was also used for the green / weekly market. It was only with the urban redevelopment, beginning in the 1970s, primarily by Alt-Vegesack , that the idea that Gerhard-Rohlfs-Strasse should become a pedestrian zone prevailed. Initially, after the construction of an underground car park in 1974/75, Sedanplatz became the first pedestrian zone.
After a competition in 1982 won by the architects Goldapp + Klumpp , the planning for a new design for Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße arose. With a strip of asphalt, concrete slabs and small paving strips, with trees arranged in the middle, as well as benches and art objects, the new pedestrian zone was created in the 1980s from funds and a. of urban development .
Buildings and monuments
building
On Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße there are one to four-story buildings, mostly commercial and residential buildings, a number of banks and also office buildings. Some buildings date from the Wilhelminian era .
- No. 12: Branch of the Sparkasse Bremen
- No. 15: Gerhard Rohlfs Pharmacy
- No. 16A: Aesculap Pharmacy
- No. 20: House of the Sparda Bank
- No. 29: Volksbank Bremen-Nord
- No. 32: 3-sch. Tax office Bremen-Nord
- No. 54: 4-sch. Commercial building with the Bermpohl pharmacy
- No. 58: 4-sch. Commercial building with plaque; this is where Gerhard Rohlfs was born.
- No. 67: Former location of the Tonhalle inn , also a cinema since 1911, demolished in 1961; now Woolworth department store
- No. 73: 3-sch. House from the early days
At Sedanplatz (see main article Sedanplatz ) there are u. a.
- the Gustav-Heinemann- Bürgerhaus from 1977,
- in front of it a group of figures for two alone made of bronze by Waldemar Otto
- the Vegesack market hall from 2007,
- No. 62: a former department store (Hertie) from 1969, after renovation since 2012 town house / local office Vegesack,
Monuments (from west to east)
- Corner of Fährgrund (open space), bronze column as a memorial to Gerhard Rohlfs by Paul Halbhuber , 1961
- At No. 6: The Snail Man , an expansive male figure by Jürgen Knapp, Kalkstein, 1985
- At number 8: ceramic stone,
- At No. 8: Woman's sculpture by Christa Baumgärtel , sandstone, around 1985
- At No. 10: Untitled sculpture by Jürgen Cominotto , Sandstein, 1985
- At no. 12: The whale in Vegesack by Uwe Hässler , bronze, 1980, Stiftung der Sparkasse Bremen
- No. 12–14: The Netzeflicker by Frank Bohlmann, bronze, 1988, Stiftung der Sparkasse Bremen
- No. 12–14: The town crier by Hans-J. Müller , Bronze, 1988, Sparkasse Bremen Foundation
- No. 12–14: On the history of Vegesack by Andreas Frömberg , bronze, 1988, Stiftung der Sparkasse Bremen
- No. 12–14: Relief on the story of Vegesack by Dorothea Muszynski, bronze, 1988, Stiftung der Sparkasse Bremen
- Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße / Sagerstraße: Ingrown time. a sculptural ensemble by Hawoli made of metal, granite and a bollard, 1985
See also
literature
- Wendelin Seebacher (concept): Vegesack . Ed .: Bremische Gesellschaft, NWD-Verlag, Bremerhaven 1990.
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 23 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 3" E