Kornstrasse (Bremen)

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Kornstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Basic data
city Bremen
district Neustadt
Created in the 19th century
Newly designed around 2000
Cross streets Hegelstr ., Kantstr ., Hermannstr., Wulfhoopstr., Lehndtedterstr., Meyerstr., Geschworenenweg , Sedanstr. , Waterloostr ., Kolberger Str., Graudenzer Str., Möckernstr ., Tauroggener Str., Nettelbeckstr ., Gneisenaustr ., Yorckstr ., Roßbachstr ., Gellertstr ., Claudiusstr ., Brinkumer Str., Neanderstr ., Kirchweg , Wähmannstr., Kleiststr ., Käthe-Popall -Str., Tieckstr ., Willigstr., Volkmannstr., Schlegelstr ., Im Grünen Winkel, Rosenpfad, At the Five Gables, Stiller Weg, Stenumer Str., Buntentorsteinweg , Vohnenstr., Huckelriede , Nollendorfer Str., Niedersachsendamm ,
Buildings St. Jakobi Church , School on Kornstrasse , Zionskirche , Herz-Jesu-Kirche
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 2400 meters
Zion Church from 1957
School on Kornstrasse
St. Jakobi
Herz-Jesu-Kirche 1937 by Dominikus Böhm

The Kornstraße is a historical street in a northwest-southeast direction in Bremen in the district of Neustadt , district Buntentor . It leads from Friedrich-Ebert-Straße / Lahnstraße to Neuenlander Straße . The district of Buntentor is accessed by the three parallel streets Buntentorsteinweg , Kornstraße and Gastfeldstraße .

The Kornstraße is divided into the three large sections

  • Friedrich-Ebert-Straße to Kirchweg ,
  • Kirchweg to Buntentorsteinweg and
  • Buntentorsteinweg to Niedersachsendamm / Neuenlander Straße.

Cross streets : The cross streets were u. a. named after philosophers ( Philosophenviertel ), poets, theologians (Gustav Volkmann, 1842–1917, Neander), generals, slaughterhouses (Roßbach), politicians, building contractors (Meyer, Willig, Wulfhoop), property owners (Hermann, Vohnen, Wähmann), places and Districts and field names (Lehnstedt = Lehnstätt); see also the linked names.

Kornstraße is the street with the highest house number in Bremen (No. 648).

history

Surname

The Kornstraße was named after a field name in an area that was well suited for growing grain.

development

After 1870, many citizens moved to Bremen. From 1871 to 1890, the population in Bremen grew from 82,900 to 125,684. The city had to designate new building land and the Neustadt on the left bank of the Weser was one of the rapidly growing districts in Bremen. The Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen decided on February 10, 1873 to build a new access road. The western part of the street was built on first. The cross streets were built around the same time at the beginning of the 1870s. This was followed by the construction of further cross streets from the mid-1870s up to Kirchweg, which had been in existence since 1865 . The neo-Gothic St. Jakobi (Bremen-Neustadt) was built here in 1876 .
The street population came from the simple and middle classes. It was not until 1980/90 that social structures began to change significantly.

The first Zionskirche was built in 1893/94 as a branch church of St. Pauli on Kornstrasse.
The school on Kornstrasse was not built until 1913/14 to 1916 due to the increase in the number of residents in Neustadt from around 28,000 to around 41,000 between 1889 and 1905.

The section of road east of Kirchweg did not develop until later. The northern area, initially accessed from Buntentorsteinweg, was settled from 1870 to 1890 by often simple row house settlements for working-class families. A number of companies have settled on the south side.
In 1936/37 the catholic Herz Jesu-Kirche was built in this street section at No. 371 according to plans by Dominikus Böhm (Cologne) and in 1964 it was extended by two gables according to plans by Ganswindt. In 2009 it was converted into a retirement home.

In 1920 the Friedrich Germann sugar confectionery factory was founded on Kornstrasse and produced the real Bremen Babbeler , a candy cane.

During the Second World War , the Buntentor district suffered only a few building losses from bombs. The Zionskirche and the surrounding area were destroyed in 1942/1944. In 1957 the Zionskirche could be rebuilt at the same location.

traffic

In the area where the Buntentorsteinweg and Huckelriede converge, Kornstraße touches the Bremen tram line 4 (Lilienthal - Mitte - Arsten). Since 1884, a horse-drawn tram led to Arsterdamm , which was electrified around 1900, in 1939 as line 4 connected Horn to Arsterdamm, from 1967 to 1998 line 1 was added, which led to Arsten since 1973. Since 1998 only line 4 has passed here.

Buildings and facilities

On the street there are mostly two- to three-story, some four-story and a few single-story buildings. Many buildings are residential and commercial and date from the end of the 19th century. The many corner pubs that existed in the 1970s were striking. There are no monuments and fountains on this street - in this underprivileged district - not even today.

Under the protection of historical monuments in Bremen are:

Other buildings worth mentioning:

  • No. 24: 4-sch. Residential and commercial building from the 1920s with a clinker brick facade
  • No. 45: 3-sch. Residential house, gabled house from around 1900
  • No. 48: 2-sch. Residential and commercial building from around 1900
  • No. 55/57: 3-ply House from around 1900 in the Wilhelminian style
  • No. 59: 2-sch. Baroque house from around 1890
  • No. 73: 3-sch. Residential and commercial building from around 1900 in the Wilhelminian style
  • No. 123: 3-sch. Gabled house with mansard roof from around 1900
  • No. 81: 3-sch. Brick residential complex from 2017 according to plans by Eilert Wilcks , Hamburg
  • No. 141: 3-sch. Residential and commercial building with a gable elevation
  • No. 151: 4-sch. Office building of the Sparkasse Bremen from 1951 based on plans by Heinrich Wilhelm Behrens .
  • No. 187: 2-sch. Gabled house with stepped gable, formerly a solar pharmacy
  • No. 189: 3-sch. Corner house from around 1890
  • No. 209: 2-sch. Isenberg educational home named after Beta Isenberg and Paul Isenberg from 1914 based on plans by August Abbehusen ; Conversion from 1921 according to plans by Otto Blendermann .
  • No. 217: 1-gesch. Ge-Be-In funeral home
  • No. 255: 1-gesch. former car dealership until 2016; Planned building area for apartments and businesses
  • No. 291: 1-sch. Tandler hardening shop
  • No. 371: 2-sch. New construction of the nursing home in the Caritas district center St. Michael from 2009 by converting the former Sacred Heart Church according to plans by Ulrich Tilgner and Thomas Grotz
  • No. 383: 3-sch. Caritas -Altenzentrum St. Michael from 1977 according to plans by Veit Heckrott with red stone facade ; BDA Prize 1974, outline 2013.
  • No. 387: Bunker from around 1940 with mural Idyll and Violence from 1981 by Rolf Thiele

See also

literature

  • Eberhard Syring: Bremen and its buildings - 1950 - 1979 . Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944552-30-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weser-Kurier dated February 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ Aschenbeck and Holstein: Houses of the Big City. The architects Behrens and Neumark in Bremen 1899–1957 . 1997, pp. 75-89.
  3. ↑ Bremen and its buildings 1900–1951 .
  4. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 153

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 37.62 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 24.48"  E