Koenigstrasse (Stuttgart)
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| place | Stuttgart |
| District | center |
| Places | Schlossplatz |
| Buildings | Art building , New Palace , Old Palace , Königsbau , Stuttgart Art Museum , St. Eberhard Catholic Church , Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture |
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| User groups | Foot traffic |
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| Street length | 1.2 km |
The King's Road is Stuttgart's main shopping street. It is 1.2 kilometers long and is one of the busiest shopping streets in Germany.
According to a 2014 census, Königsstraße was the third most frequented shopping street in Germany with 12,795 passers-by per hour. The share of chains is 93 percent. The rents for retail space are up to around 320 euros per square meter.
course
It begins at the south-east entrance and exit of the Hauptbahnhof ( Arnulf-Klett-Platz ) tram stop at the main train station and runs as a pedestrian zone straight in the south-south-west direction to the entrance and exit of the Rotebühlplatz tram stop (city center) , where it turns at right angles to the east-south-east (left) and from there it forms an almost 100-meter-long section of the traffic-calmed inner-city crossbar before it joins Eberhardstrasse at the level of Tübinger Strasse.
history
The upper section of Königstrasse, between Bolzstrasse and Wilhelmsbau, emerged from the Great Ditch, which ran parallel to the city wall of the oldest Stuttgart city center in the high Middle Ages . There were a few buildings there as early as the early 15th century, including the Sick'sche Haus , which was owned by Antonia Visconti in 1403 and probably served as the summer house of a pleasure garden . In the course of the expansion of the city to include the Hospital Church under Count Ulrich the Beloved after 1450, the former moat became a street. The first urban development on the north-western side was also built at that time. Due to the width of the street, the street was still one of the preferred residential areas in Stuttgart in the 16th century, in which there were also buildings for the Württemberg court. The last structural relic of that time is the right part of the building of the New Chancellery , the lower floor of which was built in 1551 by the Württemberg Chancellor Ambrosius Volland .
Duke Friedrich II , king since 1806 , began to transform Stuttgart into the royal residence of his enlarged empire. Under him and his successor Wilhelm I , the city walls were razed and the Königstrasse was redesigned into a boulevard according to plans by Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret and Carl Etzel . At the lower end of Königstrasse was the Königstor , and just a short distance away on the left was the large royal stables. Until 1843, the southeast side of the street, which was still largely used as garden land at the beginning of the 19th century, was built over with buildings.
Until the construction of the new main train station in 1916/17, the Stuttgart train station was located in the immediate vicinity of Schloßplatz , which is still the optical center of Königstraße today. On Schloßplatz there was not only the New Palace (today the seat of ministries) and the Old Palace (today the State Museum of Württemberg ), but also the Old Lusthaus (later the court theater, where the art building was built in 1913 ), the Café Marquardt and the Catholic Church of St. Eberhard , the Königsbau and the Kronprinzenpalais . During the air raids during the Second World War, numerous buildings on Königstrasse were destroyed to their foundations. In the post-war period there were long discussions about the reconstruction of the historic buildings, which led to the fact that some were rebuilt (New Palace), while others were demolished (Kronprinzenpalais).
Königstrasse was open to automobile traffic until the 1960s, but was then redesigned into a pedestrian zone with the significant involvement of the architect Günter Behnisch . During the late 1960s and 1970s, the tram was moved underground, in the course of which, among other things, the Klett passage between the main train station and Königstrasse and the new underground tram stop at Schloßplatz were created. The tram lines through the upper Königstrasse and towards Keplerstrasse were discontinued. The renovation work was completed in the early 1980s.
The remainder of the Kronprinzenpalais, which was damaged in World War II , was located on the western corner of Schloßplatz on the right-hand side of Königstrasse, viewed from bottom to top , before it was torn down and replaced by a section of a street that crossed the city center, the so-called terrace-like street Small Schlossplatz had been built over. This traffic connection was shut down in the 1990s and a temporary staircase to the Kleiner Schloßplatz was built over. By 2005 the Kleine Schloßplatz was demolished and replaced by the art museum .
There were other major renovations on Königstrasse in the years 2004 to 2007: the Stuttgart Stock Exchange was relocated from the Königsbau to a new building at Börsenstrasse 4, while the Königsbau itself was expanded into a business center with a multi-storey shopping mall. In addition, the surfaces of the lower Koenigstrasse were redesigned by 2006 and the upper ones by 2007.
Before the Milaneo opened , between 10,000 and 11,000 people per hour were counted on a Saturday in the lower Königsstrasse. Later the number went back to a four-digit value.
building
About halfway there is, as seen from the train station, on the left the Schloßplatz with the art building , the New Palace and the Old Palace , and on the right the Königsbau and the Stuttgart Art Museum . Up to Schloßplatz it is called "Untere Königstraße", from Schloßplatz "Obere Königstraße". The Catholic Church of St. Eberhard is located in Untere Königstraße on the left . The Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg is located on the Obere Königstrasse on the right . The buildings on Königstrasse are mainly used by retailers.
Koenigstrasse 27
Königstraße 27 is a striking building in the middle of the pedestrian zone in downtown Stuttgart. It consists of the so-called "tower building" and the "town hall wing" which was added between 1957 and 1959. The house was built by the merchant Hermann Tietz and used as a department store from its opening in 1905. Since mid-2015 it has been converted into a modern office and commercial building as part of an extensive revitalization. In the course of this, the rental space will also be redesigned. The former Karstadt house was reopened at the end of 2017 under the name "Königstraße 27". Tenants are u. a. Primark, dm, Vodafone and Lush.
During the Second World War, large parts of the structure fell victim to the Allied bombing. In 1949, the building was rebuilt in its original state and the floor area was expanded to include the new Königstraße 29 building and the floors from the fifth to the seventh floor.
From 1957 to 1959 the extension of the so-called "Town Hall Wing" was planned and carried out. In the course of this, the building received a new underground car park, which extends from the second to the third basement. In addition, three more floors were built as additional retail space. The entrance passage was enlarged in 1960 and dismantled again in 1979 to create a larger sales area. In 1967 the roof of the tower was renewed and the underground car park expanded. From 1992 to 1996 further renovation measures were carried out in the town hall wing: In addition to the construction of the 3rd and 4th floors, the steel glass roof on the ceiling above the fourth floor was planned and implemented. It can be assumed that further alterations were carried out after 1996, but these are no longer recorded or described in detail in the existing structural engineering documents, building law files and as-built plans.
The property, valued as a retail jewel since the 1950s, finally became the property of Signa at the beginning of 2015 and was sold to the investment company Union Investment a year later. As a project developer, Signa is still responsible for the extensive revitalization and modernization work as well as for the redesign of the rental space.
State authorities
A number of state authorities are concentrated on Königstrasse and in its immediate vicinity, namely:
- part of the Ministry of Finance (New Palace, north wing)
- part of the Ministry of Culture (Neues Schloss, south wing and Königstrasse 44 )
- part of the Ministry of Justice (on Schillerplatz , directly adjacent to Königstraße)
- the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (in midnight building , Königstraße 46)
Transport links
From the three underground tram stops at the main train station (Arnulf-Klett-Platz) , Schloßplatz and Rotebühlplatz (city center) , exits lead directly to Königstraße. It is two parallel streets away from the S-Bahn ( suburban train ) stations Hauptbahnhof (deep) and Stadtmitte , but can be reached directly through the underground zones of the Klettpassage and Rotebühlpassage.
Web links
literature
- Uwe Bogen (text); Stefan Bukovsek (photos): The Königstrasse. Where Stuttgart's heart beats. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2006.
- Uwe Bogen (text); Thomas Wagner (photos): Stuttgart. A city changes its face. Erfurt 2012, pages 74–79.
- Harald Schukraft: Stuttgarter Straßen-Geschichte (n) , Stuttgart 1986, pp. 85-101.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sven Hahn, Ingmar Volkmann: Königstrasse defends its top position . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . No. 123 , June 1, 2015, p. 15 ( online under a similar title ).
- ↑ Schukraft 1986, p. 85.
- ↑ Schukraft 1986, p. 90.
- ↑ Schukraft 1986, p. 85.
- ↑ Schukraft 1986, p. 85.
- ↑ Schukraft 1986, p. 89.
- ↑ Martin Haar: The Milaneo is heading for a fabulous year-long balance sheet . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 181 , August 8, 2015, p. 19 ( online ).
- ↑ 1. These are the 15 most popular shopping streets in the country Die Welt on May 12, 2014
- ↑ Union Investment opens the Ex-Karstadt in Stuttgart Thomas Daily on December 5, 2017
- ↑ 3. This is what the former Karstadt should look like in future Stuttgarter Zeitung on January 27, 2016
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 48 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 47 ″ E