Huettenbergstrasse

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Huettenbergstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Neunkirchen (Saar)
Huettenbergstrasse
View from the Saarpark-Center in southeast direction
Basic data
place Neunkirchen (Saar)
District Downtown
Created before 1797
Newly designed 1899
Hist. Names Am Hüttenberg, Straße des January 13th
Connecting roads Königstrasse, Stummstrasse (northwest) and Oberer Markt and Langenstrichstrasse (southeast)
Cross streets Lower market, Vogelstrasse, Jakobstrasse, Marienstraße
Places Marienplatz
Buildings Evangelical Christ Church , Catholic Church of St. Mary , Eisengießer monument
Technical specifications
Street length 500 m

The Hüttenbergstraße is one of the oldest streets in Neunkirchen . It is part of the main traffic axis and used to be one of the city's most important commercial streets.

Location and course

Hüttenbergstrasse begins near the Stummplatz and the Saarpark-Center shopping center . The road leads from the Protestant Christ Church on the Untere Markt up the mountain to the Upper Market . This makes it one of the city's main arteries. Until the establishment of the pedestrian zone on Stummplatz and the western bypass, it was the main thoroughfare. It connected the streets coming from Neunkirchen main station with the upper market and thus to Scheib and the district of Furpach . With a gradient of more than 11%, it overcomes the considerable difference in altitude from the lower to the upper market.

history

The name of the street is derived from the nearby former Neunkircher ironworks , which was popularly known as a hut . Hüttenbergstrasse was already listed in the Nordheim map from 1797. At that time the street was already built on on both sides. In the 19th century, at the beginning of the Stumm brothers' era , the street next to Bahnhofstrasse developed into the city's main shopping street . Until 1903 the street began at what is now Stummplatz. In 1902 the silent monument was erected there. The lower part up to the Christ Church was separated on April 25, 1904 and renamed Stummstrasse in honor of the late Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg .

The establishment of tracks for the Neunkirchen tram began in 1899, but it was not put into operation until 1907. Two parallel tracks led through what was then (until 1928) the steepest tram route in Europe. In 1911 and 1914 a cement pavement was installed to the left and right of the tram.

During the National Socialist era , the street was renamed Straße des 13. Januar. The name referred to the Saar referendum on January 13, 1935, in which 90.73% of those who voted voted for the Saar area to join the German Reich . The renaming was initiated by the Gauleiter Josef Bürckel , who demanded that all Saarland communities dedicate a street to this historic date. After the Second World War it got its old name back.

On August 14, 1959, there was a serious accident with two dead and eight injured when the tram lost its grip and slid backwards down the mountain into a city bus that was pushed into a furniture store. The tram ran until 1978. With the establishment of the Kaufhof (formerly Levy department store) and the Saarpark Center in the 1980s, the shopping street lost its customers. TV announcer Claudia Doren publicly noted that junk and second-hand shops dominated the streetscape. Since the 1980s, Hüttenbergstrasse has been used as a one-way street in an uphill direction, while traffic is directed downhill via Langenstrichstrasse – Jägerstrasse – Marienstraße. By designating slanted parking spaces (see picture), parking on steep hills was made easier and additional parking space was created. Numerous shops and the largest cinema in town can still be found on the street. The street is part of the traditional route of the Neunkircher Rosenmontagszug.

Architectural monuments

  • Christ Church : the Protestant Christ Church is located on the lower market. The main entrance is at the lower end of Hüttenbergstrasse.
  • "Eisengießer": The fountain sculpture was donated to the city in 1936 by the ironworks. The iron caster is said to represent the workforce of the ironworks. It was made by the sculptor Fritz Claus .
  • Residential and commercial building from 1904, Hüttenbergstrasse 6
  • House from 1875 with extension in 1899, Hüttenbergstrasse 7–13
  • St. Marien : The Catholic parish church in neo-Romanesque style was built in 1884 as a successor to a baroque hall church from 1751 and was built according to plans by the architect Ferdinand Schorbach . The church is on Marienplatz.

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literature

  • Armin Schlicker: Street Lexicon Neunkirchen. Streets, squares and bridges in the past and present . Published by Historischer Verein Stadt Neunkirchen eV Neunkirchen 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-027592-0 . Pp. 194-196

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google Maps
  2. ↑ The Neunkircher tram (with pictures and reports on tram operations on Hüttenberg)
  3. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 14, 1959: Backwards downhill
  4. ↑ saarland-journal.de of September 30, 2014: 135 years Galeria Kaufhof
  5. ↑ Color photographs and description , accessed on January 24, 2014