Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade

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Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '17.2 "  N , 8 ° 38' 15.5"  E

The Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade is a boulevard in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and the first address in the center of the city. The 1760 meter long street runs between the Kurpark , which borders the promenade to the northeast, and Louisenstrasse, which runs parallel to the southwest, as the city's main shopping area. The street name used in no other place is unique in Germany .

location

The street begins in the northwest at the corner of Haingasse and Gymnasiumstrasse and forms the continuation of Höhestrasse , so to speak, which ends at this point . It ends at the street Am Schützbrett (as well as at the transition to Haberweg ) in the Gonzenheim district and continues through the Kirchgasse there in the same direction.

history

The street was built in the 1830s on the site of a simple dirt road and was opened as a municipal promenade in 1834 . Although the first houses were built around 1840 (such as Villa Trapp, located at number 6), the structured development of the street did not begin until the Kurhaus opened in 1843.

From 1857 on, a distinction was made between the Upper Promenade (between Haingasse and Schwedenpfad ) and the Lower Promenade (between Ludwigstrasse and Augusta-Allee ). Since 1889, when the monuments to Emperor Friedrich III on the neighboring Schmuckplatz . and his wife Victoria Kaiserin Friedrich were erected, the street bears its current name.

In the second half of the 19th century, additional buildings were built on some properties in addition to the existing villas, some of which were used as studios by Homburg photographers. For example, the annex building number 61a, which the court photographer Thomas Heinrich Voigt had the renowned Homburg architect Louis Jacobi built in 1885 after purchasing the property at number 61 .

Some outbuildings were also used to accommodate spa guests, for whom two large hotels were primarily available on site: Hotel Minerva, which existed until the 1960s and now houses the Wicker Clinic , under number 47 , and under numbers 69 to 75 the Ritters Park Hotel , which existed until the 1980s and is now the Steigenberger Hotel . Both hotels hosted numerous high-ranking personalities from home and abroad, including Elvis Presley (at the beginning of October 1958 as a guest at the Ritters Park Hotel).

Known residents

In addition to the aforementioned painter and court photographer Thomas Heinrich Voigt (1838–1896), who lived on the property at number 61, the Frankfurt politician and diplomat Wilhelm von Meister (1863–1935) resided in the Villa Meister named after him at number 105. As early as the late 1830s, the doctor Eduard Christian Trapp (1804-1854), to whom Bad Homburg owes its status as a spa town , had a villa built at today's number 6.

In 1951 a family called Schubring moved into their home in house number 74. The then eight-year-old son was known years later under the pseudonym Ted Herold as the "German Elvis" and received in 1958 when his idol spent a night in the Ritter's Park Hotel across the street and then Strolled through Bad Homburg, the opportunity to meet Presley personally. Both singers met in the nearby Louisenstrasse in the Pellegrin ice cream parlor, which is still in operation today.

Monument protection

A large number of buildings on the promenade are listed buildings . See list of cultural monuments in Bad Homburg # K .

Web links

Commons : Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade at strassenweb.de (accessed on May 24, 2017).
  2. ↑ Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe at strassen-in-deutschland.de (accessed on May 24, 2017).
  3. ^ Villa Trapp, Bad Homburg (accessed on May 24, 2017).
  4. ^ Gerta Walsh: Big names in Bad Homburg - A walk through the streets of the spa town . Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 14 / ISBN 3-7973-0674-1
  5. ^ Cultural monuments in Hesse: Bad Homburg, Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 61 and 61a .
  6. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 47, main building. Bad Homburg digital building book. (As of May 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 69-75 (from 1909 Ritter's Park-Hotel). Bad Homburg digital building book. (As of May 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ↑ Elvis Presley: Ritters Park Hotel, Bad Homburg, Germany: First weekend of October 1958 (English; illustrated article).
  9. ^ Villa Meister, Bad Homburg, Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 105 .
  10. ↑ Cultural monuments in Hesse: Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 6 (accessed on May 24, 2017).
  11. ↑ The German Elvis turns 70 (article from September 8, 2012)
  12. ↑ Elvis in Germany October 1, 58 - March 2, 1960
  13. ↑ Pellegrin ice cream parlor on Facebook .