Hofaue

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View in western direction at the intersection with Wesendonkstrasse

The Hofaue is an inner-city street in Elberfeld , a district of Wuppertal . At the end of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century it was the center of the Elberfeld textile industry and was known worldwide as the textile trade route. From here, the Bergische textile products were sold all over the world via wholesalers .

Today the Hofaue is important as an artists' quarter due to the large number of artist studios, painting supply stores, galleries and restaurants located here .

topography

The street begins near the Schauspielhaus as a junction of Bundesstraße 7 , which is called Bundesallee here , directly at the confluence with Wupperstraße and leads as a one-way street in a north-westerly direction to Bembergstraße . Here the one-way street changes direction, which can then only be used in an easterly direction, so that both directions of travel flow into Bembergstraße . In the further course it meets the Wesendonkstraße . Here it changes direction at an obtuse angle and now continues in a south-westerly direction. In the further course the City-Arkaden are on the north side of the street, they span the Landesstraße 70 , which is called Morianstraße in this section . The Hofaue continues on the other side of the seven-lane main street and then continues as a pedestrian zone past the City-Arkaden to the inner-city square Alte Freiheit , where the main entrance to the arcades is located.

Surname

The street was given its current name “Hofaue” on April 2, 1901. Earlier names: in the original cadastre 1824/25: Hofaue ; Coutelle 1852: Hofaue and Hofauerstraße ; Address books 1850/58: Hofaue and Kleine Hofaue and from 1864: Hofauerstraße .

history

Originally the area around the Hofaue was a camera property , only with the approval of Garnnahrung in 1527 did the bleachers use the Wupperauen more intensively. The first parcels were leased in 1757 and sold in 1778. The first mansions in the Rococo style were built. The street with the houses in the Bergisch Heimatstil was considered an elegant address in Elberfeld.

The character of the street changed noticeably from an elegant residential street to a commercial street with warehouses and production facilities for textiles. In 1809 the Hofaue was paved as one of the first streets in Elberfeld. It was also the first to be channeled later. At that time, 53 houses were already listed as subject to land lease in the Elberfeld official accounts.

The first Elberfeld theater was built by a stock corporation in 1806 - but it was closed again in 1809 (according to another source in 1811). It was later replaced by a new building and opened in 1844. In 1882 it had to be closed due to the risk of fire. As a result, a new city ​​theater was built on Brausenwerth and opened in 1888.

After the end of the French occupation, the textile trade only really flourished and the Hofaue developed into the main street of the clothing industry and textile trade. Over 200 wholesalers were based here and had warehouses, sales floors and factories built. Friedrich Seyd & Söhne was one of the first companies to settle here in 1864. Other companies followed, such as the textile factory of "von Baum Kommanditgesellschaft", which was founded in 1883. It was one of the first companies to mass-produce men's and women's clothing. The Kolkmannhaus , formerly known as the "Lohmannhaus", was built in 1898 and housed the most important textile trading companies of the time. There were also curtain and clothing factories in the building complex. Friedrich Seyd & Sons' special sales days in Elberfeld were very popular at home and abroad. Up to 15,000 people are said to have been on the street.

During the Second World War , the area was hit hard by the air raids on Wuppertal on the night of June 25, 1943 ; only one building (No. 85) was spared from the bombs. Over 150 companies were hit in 55 minutes, warehouses with a total value of over DM 30 million  were destroyed. The values ​​on buildings, machines and other facilities were many times higher. Despite the reconstruction after the war, the importance of the street could not be continued. The mood had reached a low point, many companies had started their fresh start far from this road. After eight years there were only a few gaps and ruins, 150 companies had resettled by 1950 and achieved an estimated total turnover of around 80 million DM.

The structural change in the textile industry in Germany in the 1970s brought the ultimate end to many companies. The textile factory of the "von Baum Kommandit-Gesellschaft" left the Hofaue in 1965 and moved into a new company headquarters in Vohwinkel, today it operates as a real estate company.

In the second half of the 20th century, the Hofaue was a side street that led away from the center and was unattractive. It developed as Wuppertal's red light district. In the 1990s, the district was continually upgraded again. Young companies and those from the service sector have settled in the old textile warehouses. Cultural institutions and restaurants have also settled here.

Since January 2020 it is planned to organize the Hofaue in a real estate and location community (short: ISG) in order to be able to increase the attractiveness again. The university professor and publisher in the field of architectural theory Johannes Busmann is primarily responsible for the planning .

Buildings on the street

Numerous buildings and facilities are located on this street, nine of them are entered in the List of Monuments of the City of Wuppertal. The property of a further five objects was examined, but the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation (RhAD) rejected the applications.

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Web links

Commons : Hofaue  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Textil im Wuppertal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wuppertal.de  
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Hofaue  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Regional 2006 , accessed April 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.regionale2006.de  
  4. ↑ Theater history Elberfeld ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed April 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuppertaler-buehnen.de
  5. ↑ Baumsche Factory - earlier ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed April 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baumsche-fabrik.de
  6. ↑ Klaus Goebel (Ed.): Historical scenes in Wuppertal, Solingen and Remscheid . Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-87093-043-8
  7. ^ "Hofaue in Germany" . In: Die Zeit , No. 9/1951
  8. ↑ "Hofaue" on standby . In: Die Zeit , No. 35/1946
  9. ↑ von-baum.de, accessed April 2008
  10. ↑ Lothar Leuschen: So that the Hofaue in Wuppertal becomes an attractive address again. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 26.6 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 10.4 ″  E