Königsstrasse (Kassel)
The King Street is the main shopping street in Kassel . The Königsplatz administratively divides the Untere Königsstraße and the Obere Königsstraße , the latter being by far more important.
history
The name of the street goes back to the Hessian Landgrave Friedrich I , who became King of Sweden in 1720 due to his marriage in 1715 to the Swedish princess Ulrika Eleonore . Therefore, the street was paved with Swedish granite , which was there until 1964. On July 8, 1877, Kassel was the third city to receive a steam tram after Paris and Copenhagen . She drove from the Königsstrasse to the Wilhelmshöhe Park . From 1884 there was also a horse-drawn tram (until 1909). The street was transformed into one of the first pedestrian zones in Germany in 1961.
Development
The development of the street has been subject to frequent changes due to its function as the main shopping street. In 1762 the measuring house was built in plastered half-timbering at Königstrasse No. 8 according to plans by Simon Louis du Ry , the son of Charles du Ry . In 1904 it was demolished and the town hall designed by Karl Roth was built in its place . Famous artists built their representative houses and city palaces along the street in the 18th century , including the court sculptor Johann August Nahl , the court plasterer Johann Michael Brühl and the architect Simon Louis du Ry. Between Friedrichsplatz and Königsplatz stood on the southeast side the Palais of the Hessian Estates (from 1813 as the so-called White Palais, residence of the Prince Elector and later Elector Wilhelm II ), the Gohr Palace, built in 1772 (known as Palais Reichenbach from 1821 ) and the Palais Hessen-Rotenburg built from 1767 to 1769 . According to plans by Albrecht Rosengarten , the Kassel synagogue was built in 1839 on Untere Königsstrasse ; it was destroyed in 1938 during the Night of the Pogroms.
Today's streetscape is very heterogeneous , not only because of the losses caused by the devastating air raid on Kassel during the Second World War in October 1943. It ranges from baroque buildings to modern commercial buildings. The post-war modernism typical of Kassel can also be found here. A typical example of this is the Bilka department store designed by Sep Ruf . It is located on the corner of Friedrichsplatz and is known for the preserved and integrated classical portico of the Red Palace . The Hotel Hessenland, designed by Paul Bode in 1953, is at number 2 at the upper end of Königsstrasse . In 1995 the Königs-Galerie shopping center in Kassel was built.
Views
- Historical views, Obere Königsstrasse
Obere Koenigsstrasse 1844
Before 1904, the measuring house. Location of today's town hall
Obere Königsstrasse 1969, view towards Wilhelmshöhe, in the background the State Museum.
Obere Koenigsstraße 1969, corner to the stairs street, view towards Koenigsplatz
- Historical views, lower Königsstrasse
The synagogue on Untere Koenigsstrasse
Lower Koenigsstrasse 1945
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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 53 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 46.5" E