Kisseleffstrasse
The Kisseleffstrasse is an approximately 820-meter-long street in the center of Bad Homburg . Along with Șoseaua Kiseleff in Bucharest , it is the only street with this name in Europe . While the street in the Romanian capital is named after the Russian Count Pavel Kisseleff , who led the Russian military administration in Romania from 1829 to 1834, Bad Homburger Straße is named after his wife Sophie Stanislowna Kiselewa, daughter of the Polish magnate Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki . Since the early 1840s she spent a not inconsiderable part of her life in Bad Homburg and as early as 1843 she owned four country houses on the avenue after the Brunnen , as the section of Kisseleffstrasse north of the promenade was called until 1900.
location
Kisseleffstraße runs between Paul-Ehrlich-Weg or Weinbergsweg in the north and Schöne Aussicht in the south. Its longest section cuts through the Bad Homburg Kurpark in the northern area before it merges into the built-up urban area at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade boulevard . In a southerly direction, it then crosses the no less important Louisenstrasse before it ends at Schöne Aussicht . In the Bad Homburg Kurpark, it leads past the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Bad and the casino , which is located on the Brunnenallee that branches off .
The namesake
The casino, which opened in 1841, played a major role in finding a name for Kisseleffstrasse. Because her namesake Sophie Kiselewa was addicted to gambling and often spent days in the casino. There she gambled away huge sums of money on the one hand, but on the other hand also participated in its profits through the shares she acquired in the casino.
Sophie Kiselewa also found her way into literature through her “omnipresent” presence in the casino. So it obviously served as a model for the Russian writer Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski , who visited Bad Homburg three times and in his novel The Gambler describes a Russian countess obsessed with gambling who is carried in an armchair to the roulette table. For the Homburg local researcher Gerta Walsh, it is obvious that Sophie Kiselewa served as a model for this description and that Dostoyevsky met her on his first visit to Homburg in 1863.
The writer Egon Caesar Conte Corti , who comes from an old Lombard noble family, describes her in his book The Magician of Homburg and Monte Carlo as sick “and bent with age”. At the time, she was barely over 40 years old.
The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson , who stayed with his parents in Homburg for four weeks at the age of eleven, also met Sophie Kiselewa, who left a lasting negative impression on the later author of Treasure Island : “The worst thing I saw was was the old countess. She was very old and frail and had an angry face. Night after night, day after day, the old countess came to the gaming tables, her chair was reserved for her and there she played. I heard she had left everything: husband, family, character for the sake of this poor pleasure. ”(At that time the countess was 57 years old).
history
During Countess Kiselewa's lifetime, the oldest section of the street, which connects Louisenstrasse with the promenade, was given its current name in 1857. The southernmost section followed in 1892 from Louisenstraße to Schönen Aussicht, before the street received its current length in 1900, when the section north of the promenade leading through the Homburg Kurpark (the previous avenue after the fountain ) was also included in Kisseleffstraße.
At that time, the current buildings numbered 1 and 3 were located on the street.
According to the monument topography of the city of Bad Homburg, building number 1 was built in 1841 for the Russian Countess Sophie Kisseleff, who probably never lived in the villa herself.
Building number 3, erected around 1844, served as a hotel in its early days. One of his first guests was the Russian writer Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol , who moved into his accommodation there from May 19 to June 5, 1845, before moving to the neighboring Hotel Russischer Hof (today's Louisen-Arkaden ) (until June 22 ). From July 12th to August 8th, 1862, the Stevensons stayed at the hotel with their then eleven-year-old son Robert , who later became the author of Treasure Island .
The Hotel Russischer Hof , located on Louisenstrasse, was expanded in 1868 to Kisseleffstrasse (today's number 6).
Building number 7, built in 1857 and trading as Hotel Bristol between 1893 and 1914 , and Hotel Villa Kisseleff , located at number 19 , which was built around 1842 as one of the private residence houses of the Russian Countess Sophie Kisseleff, offered further overnight accommodation for guests .
House no. 12 belonged at times to the court photographer Thomas Heinrich Voigt and was used as a so-called “Jewish house” during the Third Reich .
From 1947 onwards, Villa Hansa (house number 21) was the seat of the special office for money and credit , which prepared the currency reform in 1948 .
Monument protection
A large number of buildings on the promenade are listed buildings . See list of cultural monuments in Bad Homburg # K .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kisseleffstraße at strassenweb.de (accessed on June 16, 2017)
- ↑ a b c d e Gerta Walsh: Big names in Bad Homburg - A walk through the streets of the spa town. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, pp. 20f, ISBN 3-7973-0674-1
- ^ Gerta Walsh: Bad Homburg facades - stories about famous houses in the spa town. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 49f, ISBN 3-7973-0817-5
- ↑ Young Bertha looking for a bride in the spa ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (article from September 5, 2012)
- ↑ On the topic: High gentlemen laid their heads here ( Memento from May 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (Article from February 15, 2012)
- ^ Gerta Walsh: Bad Homburg facades - stories about famous houses in the spa town . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, p. 47ff, ISBN 3-7973-0817-5
- ↑ Anke Hillebrecht: House in Kisseleffstrasse brought out of its slumber ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (article from September 24, 2013)
- ↑ Hotel Russischer Hof (Hotel de Russie, Hotel Augusta, Gustav-Weigand-Stiftung, Louisen-Arkaden), Louisenstrasse 80-82. Places of treatment. (As of June 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ Kisseleffstrasse 7, main building. Bad Homburg digital building book. (As of June 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ Website of the Hotel Villa Kisseleff (accessed June 16, 2017)
- ^ Kisseleffstrasse 12, main building. Bad Homburg digital building book. (As of May 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Harro Kieser, Jewish Memorials in Bad Homburg , p. 14 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Villa Hansa in Lagis
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 37.3 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 21.3" E