Königstor (Kassel)
The Königstor is a street in Kassel , which is named after one of the former city gates. The name goes back to the Hessian Landgrave Friedrich I , who became King of Sweden in 1720.
history
The old Königstor originally ran from the northwestern city gate, roughly parallel to today's course of Wilhelmshöher Allee, through gardens in the direction of Wahlershausen in today's Wilhelmshöhe district, incorporated in 1906. After the fortress walls were torn down and the expansion to include Oberneustadt planned by Simon Louis du Ry , the late Baroque period was followed by the development of representative offices in historicism. These tied to today's Ständeplatz north of Königsstraße and made it possible beyond the new gate with the onset of industrialization, which was late for Kassel after 1850, towards westward development beyond the station area. The village-like character of the Königstor opposite the "Hohenzollern" - or Aschrottviertel , named after the founder, allowed the residential growth for the civil servants and the bourgeoisie to become the western city, the front west .
Development
The facilities between Wilhelmshöher Tor and Friedrichstrasse in the south and the Köllnisches Tor in the north, which were shaped by the time of the Napoleonic-Westphalian occupation, are formative from the time between the Enlightenment and the formation of the corporate states (Ständehaus) and the later unification of the empire . At the height of Wilhelmshöher Platz (today around Murhardstrasse and former engineering school), the site adjoins the development of the Wilhelminian era , which was often carried out by master builders. Here, jewelry and stucco work through the style elements of eclecticism from all classical epochs in the form of columns, offsets and facade structure, as well as the roof structures and oriels are pronounced for the bourgeois-liberal residential areas of the civil servants and the corporate aristocracy. In addition, elements from Art Nouveau and Art Deco can be recognized.
From 1904 a late classicist building in “Prussian” Baroque was built on the Königstor 31 property and in 1907 it was handed over to the “protection authorities” of the police. During the National Socialist rule between 1933 and 1945, the Secret State Police were housed there, which was responsible for organizing the deportation and persecution in the Nazi state . In the 1950s, the condition of the cells in the building, which was still used by the police, was criticized.
Since the establishment of the police headquarters at the end of the 1990s in the new building at Kassel main station, the building has been used without a fixed meaning, currently as a depot for the museum landscape in Hesse-Kassel .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 47.5 " N , 9 ° 28 ′ 58.5" E