Herzogstrasse (Wuppertal)

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Herzogstrasse, before Christmas
Herzogstrasse, pedestrian zone
Herzogstrasse, Commerce & Consumption

The Duke Street is a street in Wuppertal district Elberfeld . Today it belongs to the inner city area of ​​Elberfeld and has been developed as a pedestrian zone . From 1826 it was called Duke 's road and got about 1900 the present name Duke Street. Before the (re) naming it was called Neuer Weg .

location

The street runs from Wall Street in an east-west direction to Kasinostrasse and is around 280 meters long. Von-der-Heydt-Platz is roughly in the middle of Herzogstraße .

history

The name of the street goes back to the French marshal and Duke of Elchingen Michel Ney (1769-1815). During the French occupation of the Duchy of Berg , he was in command of the troops stationed in Elberfeld. In 1796, Ney had a street breakthrough at this point where Carnap's gardens were located. With the “ New Way ” he created the east-west axis, from the Wall to Königsstraße (today Friedrich-Ebert-Straße ).

In the 19th century the street developed into an elegant shopping street. Today there are larger department and fashion stores here. Including the Tietz department store , which Leonhard Tietz opened in 1885 as the first department store in Germany.

Buildings

"Another successful day" Memorial to Else Lasker-Schüler
"Another successful day"
Memorial to Else Lasker-Schüler

At the end of Herzogstrasse at the corner of Kasinostrasse is the Glanzstoff high-rise . The office building is the second tallest building in Wuppertal.

The house at Herzogstrasse No. 29, destroyed in the war in 1943, is where Else Lasker-Schülers (1869–1945) was born. Today there is a business building here, which for a long time housed a bookshop. Lasker-Schüler lived in the house in Herzogstrasse No. 42 for six months after their marriage; today this house is the seat of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft . At the end of Herzogstrasse at the corner of Kasinostrasse is the Else-Lasker-Schüler memorial erected in 1989.

There is also a bronze statue of the Belgian conceptual artist Guillaume Bijl entitled A New Successful Day , which was installed here in 2008.

literature

  • Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8

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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 26 "  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 39.1"  E