Hohe Strasse (Wesel)

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high Street
coat of arms
Street in Wesel
high Street
View from the west into Hohe Strasse
Basic data
place Wesel
District Old town; historical: Mathena suburb
Buildings historical: Mathenakirche , post-war town hall
use
User groups Foot traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 358 m

The High Street is a downtown street in Wesel on the Lower Rhine and part of the central city pedestrian zone.

location

Hohe Straße is located in the eastern part of a pedestrian and shopping street that runs through the Wesel city center between the Great Market in front of the Willibrordi Cathedral in the west and the Berliner Tor in the east. The 358-meter-long Hohe Straße ends in the west at the so-called Mathenakreuz, where the pedestrian zone is crossed by the cross-traffic-calmed Kreuzstraße / Korbmacherstraße . The section of the shopping street that adjoins it to the west bears the name Viehor . In the east, Hohe Strasse ends at Berliner Tor. It is separated from the Berliner Tor by the traffic-calmed Wallstrasse, which passes there. In its course there are several streets that merge to the side, some of which are integrated into the pedestrian zone. Coming from the Berliner Tor, the road climbs slightly to the west and near its western end point is the highest point in Wesel city center at around 30 meters above sea level.

Development as a commercial street

Historically, Hohe Straße was not in the old center of the late medieval Hanseatic city , but in the Mathena suburb to the east . At today's corner of Hohe Strasse and Kreuzstrasse, the Mathenakirche was built in the 15th century as a separate parish church for the suburb, which was significantly expanded in the same century. Today's Hohe Straße was considered a good residential area and attracted the Wesel painter Derick Baegert , who lived there from 1496 at the latest. The street, like the parish church, was originally named after Nikolaus von Myra and was thus named St. Nikolaus-Straße . In today's designation is high or high actually for main , the road so called Main Street.

Today's pedestrian zone was an important axis through the city centuries ago and served as a border when dividing the districts of the Catholic parish churches of St. Martini and St. Mary of the Assumption in 1734 . The north side of the Hohe Straße belonged to St. Martini, the south to St. Mary's Assumption. As early as the 19th century, Hohe Strasse was considered the city's “show street”. Before Wesel was de-fortified at the end of the 19th century, it was on the edge of Wesel's old town, which at that time only reached as far as the Berliner Tor. By 1900, Brückstrasse had established itself as the most important shopping street near the cathedral, even if Hohe Strasse also performed this function.

Replica of the course of the Rhine on Hohen Strasse

After severe destruction in the Second World War , the inner city axis was retained as a central business zone in the first post-war plans. In 1947, the entire inner city axis from the cathedral and extending beyond the Berliner Tor to the train station was uniformly renamed Hohe Strasse. In July 1949, however, the other streets were given their original names back. From 1951 the city center axis could again be used continuously by traffic. The Wesel – Rees – Emmerich small railway, which went into operation in the same year, also ran over Hohe Straße until it was closed in 1966. In 1952, the first post-war town hall in Wesel with an associated tower was completed on the former site of the Mathenakirche. Basically, the business center of the city shifted from Brückstrasse to Hohe Strasse in the process of rebuilding. At the eastern beginning of Hohen Strasse, larger department stores were built on both sides. The first was completed in 1951 and has a round facade that faces the Berliner Tor. The second, somewhat smaller "Hansa" department store was opened in September 1954. Previously, four workers were killed in a serious accident caused by construction defects on February 26, 1954. In 1973 a large department store was built on the site of the previous town hall at Mathenakreuz. In the same year, the redesign of the entire inner city axis into a pedestrian zone was initiated with a trial phase and this was finally implemented in 1976. In the late 1980s, the Apollopassage was built on the north side of Hohen Strasse from the former Apollo cinema as a further retail location.

According to a report from 2004, Hohe Straße had the highest pedestrian frequency on the city center axis. In 2006, the “Hansa” building, one of the large department stores, was demolished and replaced by the so-called Berliner Tor Center. In addition to the shopping function, it also became the location of the local radio station Radio KW. At the beginning of the 2010s, the entire pedestrian zone was renovated and redesigned.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Street directory 46483 ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (strassenverzeichnis.deutschlandblick.com)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / strassenverzeichnis.deutschlandblick.com
  2. ↑ Geoportal of the city of Wesel
  3. ↑ Store owners sound the alarm (derwesten.de)
  4. ↑ Anny Tiwisina: The cities of the lowest German Lower Rhine Valley, 1928, p. 33
  5. ^ Parish churches in the city of the late Middle Ages: Politics, Economy and Administration, Edition 177, p. 205
  6. ↑ Derick Baegert (wesel-tourismus.de)
  7. ↑ Streets in Wesel - Letter H (wesel.de)
  8. ↑ Jutta Prieur, Werner Arand: History of the City of Wesel, Volume 2, p. 65
  9. ↑ Wesel - the constricted city ( memento of the original from June 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (kdg-wesel.de)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kdg-wesel.de
  10. ↑ Research on German Landscapes, Volume 201, p. 10
  11. ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 38
  12. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (Ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 17
  13. ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 108
  14. ↑ June 8, 1951 - A tram for Wesel (wesel.de)
  15. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 189
  16. ↑ a b Concept for the development of the inner city of Wesel (wesel.de)
  17. ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 213
  18. ↑ a b February 26, 1954 - The Black Day of Reconstruction in Wesel (wesel.de)
  19. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 189
  20. ↑ a b On the change in the shopping mile (derwesten.de)
  21. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 189
  22. ↑ Wesel: Large station for C & A (rp-online.de)

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 27.2 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 4.2 ″  E