Grazer Strasse (Bremerhaven)

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Grazer Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremerhaven
Basic data
city Bremerhaven
district center
Created around 1850 and around 1864
Cross streets Mühlenstrasse, Keilstrasse, Preßburger Strasse, Lloydstrasse , Gasstrasse, Sonnenstrasse, Hannastrasse, Zeppelinstrasse, Bogenstrasse
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 800 meters
Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche , far left at the beginning of Grazer Straße

The Grazerstraße is a central access road in Bremerhaven , middle (South, North). It runs parallel to Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse in a south-north direction from Mühlenstrasse to Bogenstrasse.

It is divided into the sub-areas

  • Mühlenstrasse to Lloydstrasse and
  • Lloydtstrasse to Bogenstrasse.

The cross streets and the connecting streets were named u. a. as Mühlenstraße, Keilstraße (?), Preßburger Straße after the capital of Slovakia Bratislava , Lloydstraße after the shipping company and the shipyard Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), Gasstraße after a former gas works in the north, Sonnenstraße, unnamed place, Hannastraße (?), Zeppelinstraße after the inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917) and Bogenstraße after the large arches that lead it and the former railway line around the quarter; otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Surname

The former Grüne Straße , today Grazer Straße, was named after the capital of Styria . In Alt-Bremerhaven some streets were named after cities of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy ( Prager Strasse , Preßburger Strasse).

development

Residential houses on Lloydstrasse
St. Mary

After the ports were built (from 1827), Bremerhaven slowly expanded around 1850 to the east in the direction of Geeste and to the north. After Leher Heerstraße (from 1865 Mayor-Smidt-Straße ), further longitudinal and cross streets were built around 1850 and Schleusenstraße (today Lloydstraße ) in 1864 . In the longitudinal direction, the Grüne Strasse was continued from around 1850 (today Grazer Strasse) north of Lloydstrasse. The Protestant Mayor Smidt Memorial Church ( Great Church ) was built in 1855. The United Theater was founded around 1854 with a venue on Grazer Strasse. The Catholic St. Mary's Church was built in 1867 . In 1873 the streets received a sewer system.

In 1858 the public high school for boys with seven classes was built on Grünen Strasse at the corner of Keilstrasse . In 1880 it became a secondary school 1st order; In 1882 it became a secondary school combined with a secondary school of the 2nd order. The old-language Bremerhaven grammar school was renamed the Mayor Smidt School, Oberschule for boys in Bremerhaven in 1938 and merged with the Realschule of this double school. The buildings were destroyed in 1944. In 1900 a new building was built at the end of the street on the edge of Lehe (Bogenstraße), which the two schools moved into. After 1945 the former vocational school was here. This later became the house in Graz of the Lloyd Gymnasium.

Doris Bertholdi's daughter school from 1839 moved in 1869/70 under its director, Dr. Anton Koch moved to a new building on the corner of Grünen Strasse and Baumstrasse (today Grazer Strasse). Opposite the Great Church there was a second secondary school for girls founded in 1848 by Mrs. Pump. In 1905, the municipal high school for girls was founded here, with the two private daughter schools being nationalized and merged. In 1910, under director Dr. Alwin Wode graduated from high school. In 1942 the now German secondary school for girls on Grazer Strasse was closed by the National Socialists , the building was destroyed in 1944 and not rebuilt. Since 1910 a Catholic school was built on the street, which was constantly expanded.

The Tivoli Theater was built around 1880 and was mainly used as a cinema from 1923 to 1964.

In World War II, almost all the houses were destroyed. The reconstruction is characterized by the houses from the 1950s and 60s.

traffic

Since 1881 there has been a horse-drawn tram on the nearby Bürger . From 1898 to 1908 it was converted into an electric tram with 5 lines.

In BremerhavenBus' local transport, routes 501, 502, 505, 506, 508, 509 and 511 run on the Bürger in parts or entirely, as well as the ML / NL lines on weekend nights.

Buildings and facilities

Most of the street has three to five storeys.

Notable buildings and facilities

Mühlenstrasse to Lloydstrasse

  • At the beginning of the street: Evangelical, neo - Gothic three-aisled , 80 meter high Mayor Smidt Memorial Church from 1855 based on plans by Simon Loschen, Bremen for the United Protestant Congregation ; Badly damaged in 1944 and rebuilt by the architect Karl Franzius by 1960 .
  • Between Mühlenstraße and Keilstraße: Vier 4-gesch. Residential houses from around 1960 in open row construction
  • No. 15: Catholic, single-nave neo-Gothic hall church St. Mary's Church from 1867 with a transept , bombed out in 1944 and rebuilt in 1952 without a transept
  • No. 15a: Catholic school: In 1910 the school at Langen Straße 106 (today Prager Straße) was set up for 115 pupils, first reconstruction in 1953, new building in 1959 on Grazer Straße
    • 4-tier Catholic secondary school Edith Stein School based on plans by Josef Vollhans, Dortmund; 1974 new building as secondary school, increased in 1999, high school branch since 2000, high school in 2012
    • 2- to 3-tier Stella Maris primary school
  • No. 30 to 42: 4-ply 1960s residential complex
  • No. 52/54: 2- and 3-layered Methodist Church with a small tower
  • Ostecke Grazer Strasse / Lloydstrasse: 3- to 5-storey. Building complex from 1954, today Volkshochschule Bremerhaven, formerly Schillerschule as secondary and middle school
  • West corner Grazer Straße / Llovdstraße: 6-storey. Residential and commercial building from the 1970s

Lloydtstrasse to Bogenstrasse

  • Max-Eyth-Platz 3 / Grazer Straße / Lloydstraße: Vocational school center for different, changing training directions.
  • No. 23 to 29 and Lloydtstrasse No. 18 to 24: 5-gesch. landmarked condominium Lloydstraße 1954-1958 one-storey shopping arcade, designed by Hans Siedentopf for u. a. the municipal housing company Bremerhaven (Stäwog).
  • No. 51 to 55: 3- to 4-layered Building as a theater from around 1880 in the style of the Wilhelminian era with a 5-storey. Corner tower as well as restaurant and beer garden. Since 1923 mainly used as a cinema with 900 or 1124 (1940) seats. Partially destroyed in 1944, reopened in 1949 with 1261 seats and in 1955 supplemented by the Astoria cinema with 497 seats; the cinemas were closed in 1964, the hall was preserved.
  • From 1920 to 1933 the metalworkers' union had its headquarters at the corner of Grazer Strasse and Sonnenstrasse.
  • No. 61: 3- and 4-layered Building from 1900 for the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Schule with inner courtyard and the rotunda on the corner with auditorium and gymnasium; from 1950 the vocational school as a commercial training institute , then again grammar school, from 2004 Lloyd grammar school Bremerhaven (house Graz with around 1000 students) and youth music school Bremerhaven. The Lloyd Gymnasium with around 1700 students (formerly the Pestalozzi School) also has its lessons on Wiener Straße.
  • No. 64 and 66: two 3-tiered preserved residential and commercial buildings in the Wilhelminian style from around 1890/1900

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven route networks (ÖPNV). In: Bremerhaven route networks. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 1530
  3. ^ Monument database of the LfD

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 53.3 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 33.2"  E