Main street (Linz)
| Main road | |
|---|---|
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| Basic data | |
| place | Linz |
| District | Urfahr |
| Connecting roads | Nibelungen Bridge , Knabenseminarstrasse |
| Cross streets | Fiedlerstrasse, Friedrichstrasse, Rudolfstrasse, Kaarstrasse, Reindlstrasse, Jägerstrasse, blossomsstrasse, Schmiedegasse, Rosenauerstrasse, Freistädter Strasse |
| Places | Hinsenkampplatz |
| Buildings | Ars Electronica Center , New Town Hall |
| use | |
| User groups | Tram lines 1, 2, 3, 4, bus lines 33, 38, 102 , Pöstlingbergbahn , car traffic , pedestrian traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 600 meters |
The Hauptstraße is a street in the Upper Austrian capital Linz . It runs from the Nibelungen Bridge in the Urfahr district to Freistädter Straße and is Urfahr's central shopping street.
history
Until 1875 the street was called Urfahrgasse. It was mentioned as early as 1586.
Location and characteristics
The approximately 600-meter-long road runs in a north-north-west direction from the Nibelungen Bridge to Freistädter Strasse. In the area between Hinsenkampplatz and the bend (this is the intersection with Kaarstraße) the main street is a one-way street out of town. The street is used from the Nibelungenbrücke to the bend by tram lines 1, 2, 3, 4 and the Pöstlingbergbahn , between Hinsenkampplatz and Freistädterstraße also by bus lines 33, 38 and 102, with two tram and three bus stops along the main street (Rudolfstraße, bend or Knabenseminarstraße, the latter is just a bus stop).
building
Ars Electronica Center
No. 1–5 New Town Hall
Built from 1980 to 1985 by Rupert Falkner .
No. 7–11 Monumental apartment and shop
The building was built by Armin Sturmberger during the Nazi era in 1939 . The massive five-storey building was to lead over to the Urfahran bridgehead construction. Roderich Fick's style concept penetrates the design of the granite wall pillar arcades and the baroque central portal .
No. 12 Café Landgraf
It is a late historical residential and commercial building built by Raimund Jeblinger in 1898 with a larger than life-size statue of the Heart of Jesus made of stone by Max Oberhuber from 1897 on the facade.
No. 37 residential and commercial building
The romantic-secessionist three-storey bay was built between 1911 and 1913 by master builder Ignaz Derndorfer .
No. 38 corner house
The corner house on Reindlstrasse is one of the last old town houses, a two-story residential and commercial building.
No. 54 Lentia City
Modern shopping center owned by PlusCity owner Ernst Kirchmayr .
No. 59 suburban corner house
A simple suburban house from the mid-19th century on the corner of Jägerstrasse.
Web links
- The (too) busy main road offers a surprising amount of quality of life , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , 23 July 2012
- linz.at City history, monuments, main street
Individual evidence
- ↑ linz.at city's history, Linzer street names
- ↑ Lentia City