Klever Strasse (Düsseldorf)
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| Basic data | |
| place | Dusseldorf |
| District | Pempelfort , Golzheim , Derendorf |
| Connecting roads | Cecilienallee , Jülicher Strasse |
| Cross streets | Emmericher Strasse, Kurt-Baurichter-Strasse, Fischerstrasse, Kaiserswerther Strasse , Schwerinstrasse, Kolpingplatz , Mauerstrasse , Collenbachstrasse, Roßstrasse |
| Buildings | Higher Regional Court , Golzheimer Friedhof , Kreuzkirche |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , car traffic ( L 455 ), public transport |
| Road design | Boulevard with a double row of trees |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 780 m |
The Kleverstraße is a local intra- regional road in Dusseldorf , District 1 ( L 455 ). The border between the districts of Pempelfort and Golzheim runs along the road axis . The street connects Jülicher Straße in Derendorf with Cecilienallee on the Rhine .
function
Klever Strasse functions as an inner-city main traffic route and a ring road . It was supposed to relieve the load on Nordstraße , whose function had shifted from a main thoroughfare towards a shopping and business street at the beginning of the 20th century.
designation
In its name, which was awarded on March 28, 1893, in the period of historicism , the street commemorates the Counts of Kleve and the descendants of Duke Adolf II in the Kleve family line in the Brandenburg region, as well as a historical territory in the Lower Rhine region, which in certain phases of the City history were ruled from Düsseldorf as the capital : the Duchy of Kleve as part of the United Duchies of Jülich-Kleve-Berg and as part of the Grand Duchy of Kleve and Berg . It is not without reason that the continuation of Klever Strasse is Jülicher Strasse, which refers to the Duchy of Jülich , which is temporarily connected to Kleve . A parallel street is the Pfalzstraße, which makes references to the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg and the Electoral Palatinate , which were also ruled from Düsseldorf for a time. In their spatial proximity, the streets are also reminiscent of the momentous Jülich-Klevian succession dispute , as a result of which, the Treaty of Kleve , the houses of Hohenzollern-Brandenburg-Prussia and Wittelsbach-Palatinate-Neuburg brought their power interests in the Rhineland and Westphalia to a balance. The dispute and its outcome were of outstanding historical importance insofar as they allowed Prussia , its politics and culture to gain a foothold in western Germany for many centuries. Urban planning and the architecture of Klever Strasse still bear witness to this today.
history
Klever Straße was built between the 1890s and the First World War in the shape of a wide boulevard . 1899 opened Dusseldorf-Duisburg narrow-gauge railway line rail public transport on the route Dusseldorf-Kaiserswerth and crossed on the Kaiserswertherstrasse the Clever Road . Clever Strasse between Kaiserswerther Strasse and Jülicher Strasse was already built at the time of the 1902 Düsseldorf Industrial and Commercial Exhibition , which had completely redesigned the banks of the Rhine north of the old town , but it was not until 1904/1905 that it was extended through the Golzheimer Friedhof to today's Rheinpark Golzheim tackled. The planning was closely related to the dynamic growth of the city, which at that time saw itself on the point of becoming a city of millions by 1930 . As part of a city exhibition for Rhineland, Westphalia and neighboring areas , the Düsseldorf-born Berlin architect Bruno Schmitz and the Berlin civil engineer Otto Blum received the first prize in a competition for an ambitious overall development plan in 1912 , which already provided for eight Rhine bridges on which the East-West traffic in Düsseldorf should be handled. The reorganization plan Düsseldorf 1949 , which the traffic and city planner Friedrich Tamms had developed for the reconstruction and the car-friendly redesign of the state capital, provided for the expansion of Klever Strasse more for regional traffic and it to the west over the Rheinpark Golzheim and over the Rhine to extend to Niederkassel and Hansaallee. However, because it became clear that the Oberkasseler Bridge and the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke could take on traffic, and also because of the pressure that the public criticism of the Düsseldorf Architects' Association mobilized against this plan, this controversial project was dropped. On July 2, 2017, Klever Strasse was on stage 2 of the 104th Tour de France .
Development and street design
A double row of ash trees on a wide strip of vegetation forms the axis of the street as a central avenue . On Whit Monday 2014 she was badly affected by the gale force of the low pressure area Ela ; some trees fell and many had their crowns so badly damaged that they had to be felled.
The closed development on the flanks is characterized by bourgeois, multi-storey residential buildings of Art Nouveau and reform architecture , which were called multi-storey buildings when they were built. These house types are mostly designed with the gables and bay windows typical of that time. As products of an organized real estate industry, they reflected on the economic situation and the urban lifestyle of a growing middle class . In the section between Schwerinstraße and Kaiserswerther Straße , eaves-standing apartment buildings made of red brick in the New Building style are also characteristic. Multi-family houses in the architecture of the time after the Second World War are rather isolated. Office and administrative buildings appear in the section between Fischerstrasse and Cecilienallee , especially the administrative buildings on the back of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . The judicial building on the corner of Kurt-Baurichter-Straße forms a point de vue as a high-rise building and an urban dominant for Klever Straße looking west.
In a northerly and southerly direction, mostly branching off at right angles, Kaiserswerther Strasse , Schwerinstrasse and Mauerstrasse as side streets open up the adjoining, closed, old building quarters from Klever Strasse . Klever Strasse and Fischerstrasse in the west and Roßstrasse, Moltkestrasse, Collenbachstrasse and Jülicher Strasse in the east form large intersection points with a beacon.
In a section in the middle between these points, the street space of Klever Strasse in the area of Kolpingplatz widens to the south to a right-angled square lined with swamp and red oaks. This urban space, designed by Heinrich Hillebrecht between 1902 and 1904 as a Wilhelminian jewelry square and redesigned by Walter von Engelhardt in 1913, was originally called Clever Platz and was later renamed after the theologian Adolph Kolping . After the Second World War, the jewelry square was redesigned into a modern playground. A few years ago, the area inside the double row of trees that frames the square was built with an underground car park (neighborhood car park ) ; then the playground was modernized and partially redesigned. The Rhenish farmers' market takes place on Kolpingplatz on Wednesdays and Saturdays along Mauerstraße and Pfalzstraße .
The most impressive building on Klever Strasse is the Kreuzkirche . This Protestant church was built in the neo-Romanesque style , roughly at the same time as Klever Strasse, and forms its eastern prelude. The church with the imposing copper-clad towers is visible as a landmark at many points in the urban area, acts as the main point of view from the west on Klever Straße and dominates the urban space on the street star at its feet, where the districts of Pempelfort, Golzheim and Derendorf meet. There is not only a view of the Kreuzkirche, but also of the Holy Trinity (Jülicher Straße), the Holy Spirit (Moltkestraße) and the Herz Jesu (Roßstraße). At the west end of Klever Strasse, two neo-baroque judicial buildings form a kind of portal situation to Cecilienallee, to Rheinpark Golzheim and thus to the landscape on the Rhine, namely the building of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court and the palace of its president, today the branch of a bank.
Shortly before the Rheinpark Golzheim and the confluence there with the Cecilienallee, Klever Straße runs right through an artificial incision in the Golzheimer Friedhof . Due to the road cut, the historically significant and therefore listed cemetery is divided into a southern part in Pempelfort and a northern part in Golzheim. Originally, the cemetery, which was built on a sandbank at the beginning of the 19th century , formed a unit here, but it was sacrificed in 1905 in favor of the development of the northern districts of Düsseldorf. With the Golzheimer Friedhofsbrücke project , the association Der Golzheimer Friedhof shall live has set itself the goal of reconnecting the cemetery areas on the main axis of the gardens by means of an 85 m long pedestrian bridge . A design by the architect Jochen Boskamp, who is proposing a steel structure made of four supporting tubes based on the model of the bridge over the Düsseldorf harbor entrance, is already available.
In accordance with the traffic function, Klever Straße has two lanes for motor vehicles in each direction. Bicycle lanes were set up in summer 2019. The sidewalks are rather narrow for a boulevard, especially on the north side. Parking lanes are largely arranged on the outside for stationary traffic. In the street section between Cecilienallee and Fischerstraße, the strip between the lanes is designed as a parking space. Robinia have been planted here instead of ash trees. Klever Strasse is entirely in the environmental zone of the city of Düsseldorf .
Transportation
The Düsseldorf Stadtbahn maintains the Victoriaplatz / Klever Strasse underground station on Klever Strasse . The lines U78 (Düsseldorf Hbf - Merkur Spiel-Arena / Messe Nord) and U79 (Duisburg-Meiderich Bf - Universität Ost / Botanischer Garten) run in a north-south direction as part of their main route 1 . The northern subway station exits on Klever Strasse are on both sides of Fischerstrasse. The Fischerstrasse can be crossed under the passage between the underground station exits on both sides. In addition, the bus line 722 (Eller, Vennhauser Allee - Messe / Congresscenter) of the Rheinbahn runs on Klever Strasse ; there is a stop on both sides of the street at the level of Kolpingplatz.
Specialty
On the Pempelfort side of Klever Strasse, on the corner of Kaiserswerther Strasse, is the medical and residential building at Klever Strasse 29, designed by Wilhelm Mohr in the 1920s, where the famous film director Wim Wenders was born and spent the first years of his childhood.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Clemens von Looz-Corswarem: The Golzheimer Friedhof zu Düsseldorf . In: Rheinische Friedhöfe. Special issues of the communications of the West German Society for Family Studies , issue 5; Reprinted in: Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV ; No. 55; Cologne 1990
- ↑ Otto Schmitz: The Golzheimer Friedhof. A stroll through the old cemetery in Düsseldorf ; Page A 5/38; Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-333-5
- ↑ The Golzheimer Friedhof , article by the garden department of the state capital Düsseldorf in the portal duesseldorf.de , accessed on January 25, 2013
- ^ Paul Mahlberg : The urban development result of a competition to obtain a development plan for Greater Düsseldorf . In: Kunstgewerbeblatt . Volume 24 (1913), pp. 64–67, illustration on p. 65 ( digitized version )
- ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt; Little history of the city of Düsseldorf, Triltsch Verlag Düsseldorf, 9th edition, 1983, p. 144
- ↑ a b Friedrich Tamms : Of people, cities and bridges . Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-430-19004-5 , p. 63
- ↑ See the illustrations in Werner Durth : Deutsche Architekten. Biographical entanglements 1900–1970 . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-04579-5 , p. 352 f.
- ^ City Museum Düsseldorf; Düsseldorfer Gartenlust, exhibition catalog, Düsseldorf, 1987, pp. 199–200
- ^ Christine Zacharias: Pedestrian bridge for the Golzheim cemetery . Article from November 5, 2013 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on April 18, 2014
- ↑ Architects ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de (Stephanie Schäfers: Vom Werkbund zum Vierjahresplan . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-3045-1 ), accessed on March 8, 2014
- ↑ Website for the biographical film From one who moved out - Wim Wenders' early years (2007) with a depiction of the house where Wim Wenders was born, accessed on September 25, 2013
- ↑ Wim Wenders is looking for an apartment in Düsseldorf . Article from December 14, 2012 in the portal wz-newsline.de , accessed on September 25, 2013
- ↑ Holger Lodahl, Dagmar Haas-Pilwat: Wim Wenders celebrates with his 500 friends . Article from April 18, 2015 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on September 3, 2015
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 26.5 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 38.3" E