Inner Canal Street
The Innere Kanalstraße is a 4.7 km long ring road on the outer edge of the inner green belt in Cologne , which historically begins on Luxemburger Straße and ends at the ramp to the Zoobrücke on the Rhine .
History of origin
The Innere Kanalstrasse follows the underground course of the sewage collection sewer system for the Cologne suburbs, which were incorporated in April 1888. In most large cities epidemics had given rise to the sewer system , in Cologne it was the expansion of the city by the new town of Cologne from 1881. A modern alluvial sewer system was supposed to drain the old and new town towards the Rhine; it was built between 1886 and 1905. The alluvial canal system was completed in 1891, in 1905 the opening of the first mechanical sewage treatment plant in Cologne-Niehl (Friedrich-Karl-Straße; in operation until 1928), which was the functional completion of the complete urban sewer system. Since then, underground collecting canals have run around the city, over which the "canal roads" were laid.
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The construction of the ring-shaped road, initially called Canal Road, began in 1896, using the above-ground free space of the filled-in canal route. In Greven's address book from 1896, Kanalstrasse in Cologne-Nippes appears as "under construction". In 1907 it reached from Höninger Weg ( Cologne-Zollstock ) to Amsterdamer Straße ( Cologne-Riehl ). In 1923, Fritz Schumacher did not regard the Innere Kanalstrasse as a ring road that enclosed everything, but as a division into four diagonal connections. A further expansion took place from 1928 between Luxemburger Strasse and Aachener Strasse , now called Innere Kanalstrasse, so that it could be distinguished from the Äussere Kanalstrasse, which was started in 1928. Until 1938, the Innere Kanalstrasse ran continuously as a semicircle from Luxemburger Strasse to Riehler Strasse, thereby separating the incorporated suburbs from the city center. During the Nazi era, the Innere Kanalstrasse was divided into several street sections from 1938 and these were renamed ( Lettow-Vorbeck-Strasse , Ludendorffstrasse , Litzmannstrasse , Mackensenstrasse ). The renaming after former German military leaders should raise awareness of Germany's military strength in the population. The section leading along the university was renamed Universitätsstraße . In 1945 it got its current name back, only Universitätsstraße kept its name.
On October 18, 1952, the Innere Kanalstrasse was initially opened to traffic as a two-lane route after the section between Amsterdamer Strasse and Riehler Strasse had also been completed. With the construction of the Zoobrücke, the Innere Kanalstrasse was brought up to the bridge ramp. After the inauguration of the bridge on November 22, 1966, the Innere Kanalstrasse connected Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine with the Cologne motorway ring in the eastern parts of the city.
location
The Innere Kanalstrasse runs in a semicircle in a south-west-north-east direction. It begins on Luxemburger Strasse in the Cologne-Sülz district as Universitätsstrasse (1.9 km long) and runs under the campus of the University of Cologne ( Albertus-Magnus-Platz ). From the intersection with Aachener Straße it is called Innere Kanalstraße. It continues eastwards to the Zoobrücke and crosses the districts of Cologne-Sülz, Cologne-Lindenthal , Cologne-Ehrenfeld , Cologne-Neustadt-Nord and Cologne-Nippes . Via the Zoobrücke you can reach the federal highway 3 in the direction of Frankfurt am Main or Oberhausen and the federal highway 4 in the direction of Olpe or Aachen . The Zoobrücke thus connects the Innere Kanalstrasse with the Cologne motorway ring on the right bank of the Rhine .
Buildings
There are several buildings of the University of Cologne on Universitätsstrasse , namely at No. 16 (University Building No. 331, Kölner Studierendenwerk , AStA ), No. 16a (332, Alte Mensa; 332a, Studiobühne Köln ), No. 16b ( 332b-d, Café and Alumni), No. 22 (111), No. 22a (102), No. 24 (101, "Wiso building"), No. 33 (107, 107a, university library), No. 35 (105, lecture hall building), No. 37 (106, seminar building), No. 41 (103, Philosophikum), No. 43 (151, Law), No. 45 (150), No. 47 (152, private law), No. . 75 (183, Jean Monnet Chair ), No. 77 (184) and Innere Kanalstrasse No. 15 (825, Triforum). The main building and Philosophikum are located on Albertus-Magnus-Platz, which is crossed under. The Japanese Cultural Institute at No. 98 Universitätsstrasse opened on September 2, 1969, and the neighboring Museum of East Asian Art opened on December 2, 1977 (No. 100). The Aachener Weiher adjoining both houses (completed in 1924, 4 hectares of water surface) is the only lake in Cologne's inner green belt . This is followed by the intersections of Aachener Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 55 / Bundesstrasse 264 ), Vogelsanger Strasse and Venloer Strasse (this is where the DITIB Central Mosque Cologne is located ; Venloer Strasse 160).
The 266 meter high " Colonius " television tower , Innere Kanalstrasse No. 100, was inaugurated on June 3, 1981. The neighboring administration building of Deutsche Telekom AG (No. 98) is 75 meters high and was completed in 1973. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been located at Weinsbergstrasse No. 70 / corner of Innere Kanalstrasse since 1972 , where Congstar has had its headquarters since April 2012 after the renovation in 1994 . The 31-storey Hercules high-rise (“Parrot House ”; 102 meters, built by Peter Neufert in 1972 ) can be seen from Innere Kanalstrasse, but is located at Graeffstrasse 1-5. This is followed by the intersection of Subbelrather Straße and the largest mountain of Cologne rubble, Herkulesberg . At the Cologne Gleisdreieck with the accident-prone former Idiotenbrücke , the short Hornstrasse branches off with the Pascha brothel . This is followed by the Neusser Straße intersection ( Bundesstraße 9 ). The Lentpark , which opened on October 1, 2011, can be seen from Innere Kanalstraße, but is located at Lentstraße 30. Nearby is Fort X of the Cologne fortress ring, built in the early 19th century . Then Innere Kanalstrasse crosses Amsterdamer Strasse to join the Zoobrücke as Bundesstrasse 55a at the intersection of Riehler Strasse.
meaning
The Inner Canal Road, now known as Landesstrasse L 100, is now one of the busiest streets in Cologne, which has been expanded to six lanes except for a section of 1.3 km . Only between the connection to the federal motorway 57 and the intersection Merheimer / Krefelder Straße are there two lanes in the north-east direction of travel. At the end of the A 57, the connection to the Innere Kanalstrasse is designed as a motorway triangle . To the northeast of this traffic junction , Innere Kanalstrasse crosses a total of eight bridges of the complex track systems of the so-called Cologne Gleisdreieck at the former Gereon freight station with the Gladbacher Wall depot. The inner canal road serves as a collective tangent for commuter and business traffic as well as for through traffic to the motorways. In some cases, a median separates the lanes from oncoming traffic . The maximum permissible speed on the L 100 is usually 50 to 60 km / h.
Traffic disruption due to burst pipe
On March 2, 2020, a significant burst pipe occurred at the intersection with Krefelder Straße: a 100-year-old drinking water pipeline with a diameter of 40 cm and about 100 years old had burst. The massive leaking water flushed a cavity under the roadway into which it collapsed; Overall, a hole about two meters deep and 20 by 20 meters wide was created. Thanks to the faster closure of the Inner Canal Road, first on one side and then on full, no traffic accidents occurred; however, the closure led to extensive traffic obstructions. After repairs carried out day and night, the road was opened to traffic again on March 6th.
literature
- Konrad Adenauer u. Volker Gröbe, streets and squares in Lindenthal . JP Bachem Verlag Cologne. 1992 ISBN 3-7616-1018-1
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Fred Kaufmann / Dagmar Lutz / Gudrun Schmidt-Esters, Cologne street names: Neustadt and Deutz , 1996, p. 70
- ↑ Fritz Schumacher / Wilhelm Arntz, Cologne - Development Issues of a Large City , 1923, p. 92
- ↑ Marion Werner, From Adolf-Hitler-Platz to Ebertplatz , 2008, p. 26 f.
- ^ Carl Dietmar / Gérald Chaix, Chronik Köln , 1997, p. 449
- ↑ Oliver Görtz: Serious disturbance in the system . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . March 4, 2020, p. 3 .
- ↑ Alexander Holecek: Hot asphalt for the hole . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . March 6, 2020, p. 24 ( ksta.de [accessed on March 6, 2020]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 28.3 ″ E