Kennedydamm
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| Basic data | |
| place | Dusseldorf |
| District | Golzheim |
| Created | until 1958 |
| Connecting roads | Uerdinger Strasse, Johannstrasse ( Lastring ), Danziger Strasse, Roßstrasse, Kaiserswerther Strasse , Homberger Strasse, Fischerstrasse |
| Cross streets | Schwannstrasse, Hans-Böckler-Strasse, Georg-Glock-Strasse |
| Buildings | Sternhaus , Sky Office |
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| User groups | Car traffic ( Bundesstraße 1 ), pedestrian traffic and bicycle traffic on separate green strips |
| Road design | multi-lane urban motorway ( motorized road ) with middle and flanking green strips |
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| Street length | 780 m |
Kennedydamm is the name of a section of Bundesstraße 1 and a relief center in Düsseldorf . The main street , which is similar in appearance to a city motorway , connects the center of the city with its northern districts. From the 1960s onwards, new development areas with large, solitary buildings were built on both sides , mainly for services and administration . Significant high-rise buildings mark the office location . The street was named after the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy .
location
The Kennedydamm crosses the Golzheim district and connects the Fischerstrasse / Homberger Strasse / Kaiserswerther Strasse junction in the south with the Uerdinger Strasse / Danziger Strasse / Johannstrasse / Roßstrasse junction on the Lastring in the north.
history
Friedrich Tamms , who has been responsible for the reconstruction and urban development of the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1948, always paid special attention to north-south traffic, "which is due to the particularly strong forces flowing through the geographical conditions in the close economic association of the Rhine Valley" . On the planning tasks of Düsseldorf, which are listed in the catalog for “I. Planning exhibition ”were presented in the Ehrenhof in Düsseldorf in 1949, he therefore counted the construction of a“ parallel street ”to Königsallee in an area in the city center particularly affected by air raids , namely Berliner Allee , which was built from 1954 and connected via Hofgartenstraße to Kaiserstraße , which runs northwards . So that the Kaiserstraße could cope with the increased car traffic, it was widened by a good 12 meters, whereby the historical buildings on its west side had to give way to new commercial and residential buildings in the style of post-war modernism . Further north, the planning goals formulated by Tamms in 1949 envisaged that Kaiserstrasse should be connected to Kaiserswerther Strasse by an extension of Fischerstrasse. The node created there should also serve to direct traffic via Homberger Straße to Cecilienallee and thus to the traffic axis on the banks of the Rhine, which Tamms understood as “revitalizing the Rhine front”. Tamms had Kennedydamm, which was built until 1958, connected to this junction. Its route had been considered for development purposes since the 1900s, but at that time for streets of a city district based on the scheme of a garden city . Tamms presented the planning for the construction of Kennedydamm in May 1954 as part of the planning of a seven-kilometer-long expressway that was largely free of construction and intersections, which in turn was part of a traffic planning in connection with the planned construction of the Theodor Heuss Bridge was. In the north of Kennedydamm, Tamms envisaged - as a prototype of the millipede built from 1961 on the Hofgarten - an elevated road bridging the load ring on pillars, over which he led the traffic in continuation of the north-south axis without crossing to the Danziger Straße, which was also planned in this course. The function of these roads was seen in particular to bring about a better connection to Düsseldorf Airport .
The ambitious traffic planning , which was inspired by the idea of the car-friendly city , was combined with a land-use plan that provided for building areas for tertiary uses on both sides of Kennedydamm, on a previously rural allotment area called "In der Lohe", based on the CIAM idea of functional separation . As early as 1949, the city of Düsseldorf had already brought up these spacious areas as a possible location for a North Rhine-Westphalian government district . The construction areas planned around 1960 were to form a relief center towards the city center according to the principle of decentralized concentration . The urban planning concept for this center was based on the model of the structured and loosened city, a solitary development loosened up by green areas with individual point or disk-shaped high-rise locations in a grid that controls the building orientation . Large hotel and administrative buildings as well as the building ensemble of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences on Georg-Glock-Straße were soon built on the building sites regulated in this way . The Sternhaus was built around 1970 as an urban dominant feature at the south end of Kennedydamm . Another landmark was the Sky-Office building on a pedestrian bridge that crosses Kennedydamm between Hans-Böckler-Straße and Karl-Arnold-Platz . Various buildings in the western part of the office location, together with areas on Cecilienallee and Kaiserwerther Strasse, today belong to a trade fair and wholesale cluster for the textile and clothing industry , where retailers order collections from a large catchment area .
With the construction of trunk line 1 , which began in 1973, and the inner city tunnel released in 1988 , the western and southern areas of the Kennedydamm site were connected to the Düsseldorf light rail system . In the 2017 local public transport plan, the city of Düsseldorf plans to convert the Kennedydamm station, which is currently above ground, into a Kennedydamm underground station by building a Kennedydamm tunnel .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Wolfgang Draesel: Dusseldorf. Brief reports on the structure and urban development of the state capital . Düsseldorf 1967, p. 5
- ↑ Werner Durth : Düsseldorf: Demonstration of modernity . In: Klaus von Beyme , Werner Durth, Niels Gutschow , Winfried Nerdinger , Thomas Topfstedt (eds.): New cities from ruins. German post-war urban development . Pestel-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7913-1164-6 , p. 244
- ^ Friedrich Tamms : Planning Tasks in Düsseldorf (1949) . In: Friedrich Tamms: Of people, cities and bridges . Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-430-19004-5 , p. 48
- ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt : Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf . 9th edition, Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 218
- ^ Marianne Rodenstein , Harald Bodenschatz (ed.): High-rise buildings in Germany. Future or ruin of the cities? Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-1701-6274-7 , p. 144
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 51 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 18.9 ″ E