Kaiserstrasse (Düsseldorf)
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| West side of Kaiserstrasse with residential high-rise buildings and the Sternstrasse tram stop, 2015 | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Dusseldorf |
| District | Pempelfort |
| Connecting roads | Fischerstrasse, Hofgartenstrasse |
| Cross streets | Nordstrasse , Scheibenstrasse, Arnoldstrasse, Kapellstrasse, Inselstrasse, Sternstrasse, Sterngasse, Rosenstrasse, Gartenstrasse, Maximilian-Weyhe-Allee, Jägerhofstrasse |
| Buildings | Former Klarissenkloster , Hofgarten , Nordstrasse underground station , house of the retail trade association |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Road design | Tram runs in the middle of the street |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | around 600 m |
The Kaiser Street is a 600 m long EU urban street in the Düsseldorf district of Pempelfort , City's District 1 . It extends from the Hofgärtnerhaus on Jägerhofstrasse in the south to Nordstrasse in the north.
history
Your name - to French Rue de l'Empereur - was the road to the imperial title of Napoleon Bonaparte . He had been “Emperor of the French” from 1804, “Protector of the Rhine Confederation ” from 1806 and from 1809 for the minor Grand Duke Napoléon Louis Bonaparte , his nephew, regent of the Grand Duchy of Berg , when he was on November 2, 1811 on a state visit to the “Zum Luftballon ”was received with military honors by a reception committee of the Bergisch capital Düsseldorf and by an honor guard . The place of the imperial reception marks the north end of the Kaiserstraße at the confluence of the Ratinger Chaussee, today's Nordstraße.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, today's Kaiserstraße was a country road surrounded by open spaces and gardens of a field mark , which led traffic from the Hofgärtnerhaus, built in 1770, north to Ratinger Chaussee. In the first half of the 19th century, Kaiserstrasse, along with Inselstrasse and Jägerhofstrasse, developed into a preferred building site for classicist residential buildings for the upper class and the nobility , after the Hofgarten was redesigned under the garden architect Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe and extended considerably to the north and west the Rhine had been widened. A further development spurt began in the second half of the 19th century. The basis for this development was the city expansion plan of 1854, which created an alignment network of streets in the corner between Kaiserstraße and Jägerhofstraße for block development with urban residential buildings. The Sacred Heart Monastery originates from this phase , a monastery inhabited by Poor Clares until 2000 with a neo-Romanesque monastery church. The monastery and church was built by the architecture self-taught and Franciscan brother Paschalis Gratze between 1861 and 1866. Due to the proximity to the historicist new building of the art academy and the society house of the artists' association Malkasten , this area also developed into a coveted residential area for painters from the Düsseldorf school . The palatial residential building at Kaiserstraße 48 , which Albert Poensgen , former co-owner of the Düsseldorfer Röhren- und Eisenwalzwerke AG , had the renowned Berlin architects Kayser & Großheim built in 1904, is evidence of the high status of Kaiserstraße as an upper-class residential address . Where the building of the “Finanzamt Düsseldorf-Altstadt” is today (built in the late 1950s), the houses with the numbers 52, 53, 54 and 55, their owners, stood between Gartenstrasse and Jägerhofstrasse at the beginning of the 20th century the government councilor Eduard Tigges , whose mother Louise, the widow George Pastor and widow of Ernst Schiess, née Bodenstein , were.
In 1939 Kaiserstraße was renamed after the diplomat Ernst Eduard vom Rath . The Nazi propaganda used his death as an occasion for the November pogroms and a state funeral at Düsseldorf's North Cemetery the previous year . During the Second World War , the buildings on Kaiserstrasse suffered severe damage from air raids . Nonetheless, the development on old alignment lines existed until the 1960s, before it had to give way to a road widening by 12.5 m on the west side. In the style of post-war modernism , high-rise residential buildings were built there in a staggered arrangement from the 1960s, which are connected to one another by a shop area on the ground floor and a four-story block set back from the street. On the east side of the street, apart from a high-rise apartment building, the old scale and the traditional perimeter block development were preserved. An example of this reconstruction is the house of the retail trade association , which was built in 1952 according to plans by the architect Helmut Hentrich . On the east side of the street, in the residential and commercial building at Kaiserstraße 22, the art dealers Jean-Pierre Wilhelm and Manfred de la Motte established their Galerie 22 in 1957 , which through important performances by the Fluxus movement and exhibitions of American Pop Art in the art history of the young Federal Republic received. In 1963, diagonally across the street at Kaiserstraße 31a, the visual artists Konrad Lueg , Manfred Kuttner , Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter used the bar of a former butcher's shop to stage the first exhibition of German Pop Art, known as the "Demonstrative Exhibition".
In the 1950s and 1960s, under its director Friedrich Tamms, Dusseldorf's car-friendly city and traffic planning responded to the onset of mass motorization with the construction of Berliner Allee and the construction of the Millipede high street . As a northern extension of this north-south axis of the city center, Kaiserstraße thus also developed into a thoroughfare for motorized individual transport. This was also the reason for its widening and for the demolition of old buildings on the west side. Since 1960, the Dreischeibenhaus , a landmark of the " economic miracle ", has risen to the south as a focal point . In the 1970s and 1980s were in the street of the city center tunnel of the main line 1 of the light rail Dusseldorf and the nordstraße built. The U 78 and U 79 lines run in it. Trams still run above ground and stop at the Sternstraße stop.
Since the 1990s, Kaiserstraße has established itself as a cluster for bridal fashion.
Web links
- Photo from the 1960s with a view of Kaiserstraße to the south, the Dreischeibenhaus in the background , website in the portal bilderbuch-duesseldorf.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Ottomar Moeller: The building history of Düsseldorf . In: Geschichtsverein Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): History of the city of Düsseldorf. Festschrift for the 600th anniversary . Verlag von C. Kraus, Düsseldorf 1888, p. 381 ( digitized version )
- ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt : Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf , Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 89
- ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt, pp. 97, 103
- ↑ Kaiserstraße 52 to 55, owner , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1922, p. 229
- ↑ Hans-Peter Görgen: Düsseldorf and National Socialism . L. Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1968, p. 198
- ↑ Günter Herzog: At the very beginning . Article in the portal artcontent.de , accessed on March 19, 2016