Kalenwall

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Kalenwall
coat of arms
Street in Braunschweig
Kalenwall
Villa Amsberg
at the transition from Kalenwall to Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz
Basic data
place Braunschweig
District Downtown
Connecting roads Bruchtorwall, Gieselerwall
Cross streets Gieseler
Places Europaplatz , Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport

The Kalenwall is a street in the city ​​center of Braunschweig .

location

The Kalenwall was created in connection with the Wallpromenade and is now part of the new City-Ring and is located northwest of the old train station and west of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz. The Europaplatz , the Gieseler , the Gieselerwall , the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz and the Bruchtorwall branch off from Kalenwall .

The Kalenwall runs north of the western flood ditch of the Oker and south of the former course of the city wall. There were fish ponds in this area from the Middle Ages until around 1860. The Kalenwall was previously separated from the Bruchtorwall by an Oker arm, in the west it ended at the Gieseler, through which the Gieselerwall could be reached via a bridge over the western flood ditch.

Naming

The Kalenwall was initially called "Am Bahnhofe" from October 23, 1890 and was named in 1893 after an old, influential Braunschweig family, the Kale family. It is also possible that the name was derived from the “Kahler Wall”, a detached bastion of the Braunschweig city fortifications that was located at this point until the early 19th century .

During a visit by Hermann Göring to Braunschweig on November 6, 1937, the Kalenwall was renamed together with the Bruchtorwall in "Adolf-Hitler-Wall". In 1950 both streets officially got their previous names back.

Air raid protection system

Back of the bunker

Between 1940 and 1941, instead of half-timbered houses, the Kalenwall bunker (at that time the “Am Bahnhof” bunker) was built. This received two round towers and should be clad. After the war, the bunker was used as a delousing center in Braunschweig, then as an emergency shelter for refugees and later rebuilt. On October 17, 1958, the Lido Film Theater opened here, the name of which still adorns the building today.

Web links

Commons : Kalenwall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 1: Inner City. Elm-Verlag, Cremlingen 1995, p. 174.
  2. ^ Carl Wilhelm Sack : The fortification of the city of Braunschweig. In: Historical Association for Lower Saxony (Hrsg.): Archives of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1848, p. 6.
  3. ↑ a b City Chronicle Braunschweig on braunschweig.de, accessed on October 15, 2013.
  4. ↑ Line chronicle - old and new street names on braunschweig.bahninfo.de, accessed on October 15, 2013.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '34.3 "  N , 10 ° 31' 3.9"  E