Glockengießerwall

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Glockengießerwall, Scholvienhaus and Kontorhaus Alsterblick

The Glockengießerwall is a street in the district of Hamburg-Altstadt the Mitte district of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Your official street code is G117. The entire course of the street is part of Ring 1 , which surrounds the historic core of the city.

The approximately 550 meter long street runs almost parallel to the western tracks of the Hamburg Central Station and the buildings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle . In the south it meets the Steintordamm / Mönckebergstraße street and turns into the Steintorwall . In the northwest it touches the mouth of the Spitalerstraße crosses over the Ernst-Merck-Straße , continues to Ferdinandstor and goes there in the over the Alster leading Lombardsbrücke over. It falls from its beginning on the back of the Geest, on which the above-ground part of the main station is located, at a height of 14 meters by 6 meters on the banks of the Alster. The Wallring tunnel runs under the southern half of the road to relieve it . Most of the street and all buildings with the address Glockengießerwall belong to the Hamburg-Altstadt district, but the right or eastern side of the street from Steintorwall to Ernst-Merck-Straße belongs to St. Georg . The house numbers range from 1 to 28 and are all on the left or west side of the street.

history

  • The Glockengießerwall with the ramparts on a map from 1884

  • Contemporary gallery and art gallery on Glockengießerwall

  • Portal frieze of the former Maria Magdalenen monastery at Glockengießerwall 1

  • "The River", sculpture by Aristide Maillol

  • Western facade of the main station on Glockengießerwall

The street was named in 1843. Its name refers to the Hamburg gun and bell foundry , which was operated in the immediate vicinity until the second half of the 19th century. In addition, it refers to the Hamburg ramparts , to whose former site the street is one.

Valeska Röver founded a private art school for women in Glockengießerwall 23 in 1891 . Gerda Koppel was one of her students . From 1904 until the end of the thirties she ran the school. In 1938 Gerda Koppel handed over the management of the art school to Gabriele Stock-Schmilinsky and emigrated .

Stumbling blocks in the Glockengießerwall remind of Julia Schwarzwald and Eugen Gowa, who were victims of the National Socialists .

Buildings and cultural monuments

In addition to the buildings of the Kunsthalle, there are also office buildings on the street : the monastery castle designed by Franz Albert Bach , the Scholvienhaus by Lundt & Kallmorgen and the Wallhof created by Rambatz and Jolasse . The consulate of Denmark is also on the road. The bronze sculpture "The River" by Aristide Maillol, located on the traffic island at Georgsplatz / Ernst-Merck-Strasse , is one of the cultural monuments that the Glockengießerwall has .

See also

literature

  • Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg street names. Where they come from and what they mean , Ernst Kabel Verlag GmbH, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-8225-0421-1 .
  • Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell history . Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-929229-41-2 .
  • Hermann Hipp : Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster , DuMont , Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 .

Web links

Commons : Glockengießerwall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statistics Office North: Street and area index of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  2. ↑ Geoportal Hamburg , accessed on January 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ Consulate of Denmark in Hamburg , accessed on January 12, 2020.