Herdentorsteinweg

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Herdentorsteinweg
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Basic data
city Bremen
District Station suburb
Created Way in the middle ages,
Newly designed 1847 paving
Cross streets Am Wall , Contrescarpe u. Schillerstr., Hillmannplatz / Loriotplatz , Birkenstrasse , Bahnhofstrasse , Breiten Weg , An der Weide
Buildings Hotel, Siemens high-rise , Sparda-Bank, PSD Bank Nord
use
User groups Tram, cars, bikes, pedestrians
Road design four- to five-lane street, two tram tracks
Technical specifications
Street length 400 meters

The Herdentorsteinweg is a historical street in Bremen-Mitte . The central main street leads in a north-easterly direction from the old town as an extension of Sögestraße from Am Wall in the direction of the main train station to Breiten Weg and Bahnhofsplatz . The street crosses the ramparts .

The cross streets were u. a. named as Am Wall after the Bremer Wallanlagen , Hillmannplatz after the destroyed Hillmann Hotel (built by Johann Heinrich Hillmann), Loriotplatz after the humorist Loriot (Viktor von Bülow), Birkenstraße , Bahnhofstraße , Breitenweg as a street that was already wide in the 19th century On the pasture that led to the Bürgerweide , a cattle pasture as a common area for all Bremen farmers.

history

Surname

In the Middle Ages, only one path led from the Herdentor to the Bürgerweide . The farmers living in the old town drove their herds of cattle, including the pigs (sow = Söge), through Sögestraße and the Herdentor (Heerdenthor) to the pastures.

development

From 1229 a curtain wall was built around the entire old town. The Herdentor or "portam gregum" led through the Bremen city wall to the north, as a route for the herds of cattle. In 1664 the gate was extended by a second gate in the wall. The tower and the remains were demolished in 1804 and 1826.

In 1803 the fortifications were removed and the ramparts were built. At the beginning of the 19th century there were around 30 smaller houses on the way. In 1812/13 the Herdentorsfriedhof was set up in the northeast (location near the anti-colonial monument ) after the French had forbidden further burials in the old town. This cemetery was closed in 1875 due to the urban and railway development.

The Herdentorswallmühle ( mill on the wall ) was built in 1833 and rebuilt after a fire in 1892. It was in operation until 1942. There is a café in the mill.

The stone house vase (also a splendid vase ) made of marble from 1855 can be seen from Herdentorsteinweg in the ramparts. It shows the monastery ox train. In the 17th and 18th centuries an ox was raffled annually for the benefit of the hospital in the Johanniskloster . The vase was designed in 1833 by the sculptor Carl Steinhäuser (1813–1879) and manufactured in Rome in 1855.

In 1847 the Hannoversche Bahnhof was built , and at the same time the paving of the path, which was now called Herdentorsteinweg, took place. With the construction of Bremen Central Station in 1891, traffic increased sharply.

1908: Hotel Hillmann (left), Europe (right)

The Hillmann Hotel was built by Johann Heinrich Hillmann in 1846 on Herdentorsteinweg / corner of Wallanlagen as a luxury hotel and gave the adjacent Hillmannplatz its name. After renovations according to plans by architect Heinrich Müller , it was given a facade in the neoclassical style of the late 19th century. It was one of the finest hotels in Bremen. Next to it was the luxury hotel Europa .

After the Second World War, the rather provisional single-storey Hillmannpassage with 22 shops and the Café Hillmann was built on the site of the Hillmann Hotel, which was destroyed in air raids on Bremen in 1944 . The café was a popular meeting place and a very busy dance hall in the evenings. The café and passage were demolished in 1971. From 1982 to 1985, according to plans by the architects Gerkan, Marg and Partners, a five-storey hotel with red stone views was built on Hillmannplatz as a Marriott Hotel with a small shopping arcade and the gourmet restaurant Bistro Grashoff . The passage was abandoned after 2003. Since late 2008, here is a five-star - Swissôtel with 230 rooms located. In 2013, part of Hillmannplatz in front of Bistro Grashoff was renamed to Herdentorsteinweg, Loriotplatz , as the humorist Loriot often stayed here when he was in Bremen.

traffic

In the 1960s, the Breitenweg was led as a four-lane elevated road over Herdentorsteinweg.

1881 was approved by the Bremer Pferdebahn the Ringbahn North Street Market - - Am Dobben - station - imperial road built. More lines followed. In 1900 the Bremen tram was electrified.

Today in Bremen the lines 4 ( Lilienthal - Arsten ), 6 ( University - Airport ) and 8 ( Huchting - Kulenkampffallee ) run through the street.

Buildings, monuments

Hotel at Hillmannplatz , partial view
Siemens high-rise
Contrescarpe Center

Due to the severe destruction in World War II , no old buildings have been preserved.

Stand on Herdentorsteinweg

  • West side
    • The six- story Hillmann hotel of the Swissôtel chain (see above).
    • The six-storey building complex between Hillmannplatz and Bahnhofstrasse from the 1950s was the location of two cinemas . The communal cinema City 46 in the former City Film Theater has a large cinema with 160 seats and a second with 90 seats. The 1926 Europapalast cinema designed by Joseph Ostwald was destroyed in 1944. The cinema, which reopened in the same place as Europe in the post-war period , was closed at the end of the 1990s, and today there is a drugstore in the premises.
    • Between Bahnhofstrasse and Breitenweg there are eight mostly six-storey commercial buildings with shops and restaurants, as well as the 8-storey on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse. PSD Bank Nord from 2014 based on plans by Max Dudler .
  • East Side

Monuments:

  • Stone house vase from 1855 in the ramparts (see above)
  • Figure 1963 was from 1962; it symbolizes the metropolitan area of ​​Bremen
  • Documenta 2 - From the Museum des Steins from 1988 by Ulrich Rückriem ; Granite stone in front of the hotel on the corner of Herdentorsteinweg and Contrescarpe

See also

literature

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 48.57 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 39.84"  E