Great Reichenstrasse

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Große Reichenstrasse in 1889. Drawing by Johann Theobald Riefesell

The Great Reichenstraße is an approximately 190-meter-long city road in Hamburg-Altstadt with the official code number G271. Its eastern extension is called Kleine Reichenstrasse , key number K237.

Name and history

The name "Reichenstrasse" can be traced back to the 13th century. There are several theories about the origin of the name: One says that the wealthy merchants who could afford the city's first stone houses once lived here. But a Reich family who lived here is also conceivable as namesake. North of Reichenstraße originally ran the Reichenstraße Fleet , which was filled in 1866 to make way for a widening of the road. When the original Reichenstrasse was extended to the east, the old part was given the addition of “large”, the extension “small”.

The street begins in the west as a continuation of the street Neß at the intersection with the street Brodschrangen ( location ) at a height of 4.6  m above sea level. NN , leads as a one-way street to the junction with Rolandsbrücke , crosses Domstraße and ends at the old fish market , corner of Brandstwiete at a height of 5.8  m above sea level. NN , to find its continuation in the Kleine Reichenstrasse in the direction of the Kontorhausviertel .

history

"Rykenstrate" as an island between Nikolaifleet and Speersort, around 1320

Before the construction of Ost-West-Strasse , Reichenstrasse formed an important cross-connection through Hamburg's city center . Until well into the 19th century, it was built on with typical old Hamburg town houses, which combined living and working under one roof. Some architectural fragments from that time are now kept and exhibited in the Museum of Hamburg History ( Haus Große Reichenstrasse 37 , Cranz'sches Haus ).

Today, in addition to a few preserved office buildings from around 1900 ( Afrikahaus , Große Reichenstrasse 27, but also the “Reichenhof” in Kleine Reichenstrasse), modern office buildings such as the Zürichhaus or the Neue Dovenhof dominate .

proof

  1. ^ Statistics Office North: Street and area index of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  2. ↑ Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg street names - Where they come from and what they mean , 6th edition, CEP European Publishing House, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86393-009-7
  3. ^ Christian Hanke: Hamburgs street names tell history , 4th edition, Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-929229-41-7

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