Kurt-Schumacher-Allee (Bremen)

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Kurt-Schumacher-Allee
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Basic data
city Bremen
district Vahr
Created around 1955
Cross streets Julius-Brecht-Allee , In der Vahr , Henri-Dunant -Str. Emil-Sommer- Str., Wilhelm-Leuschner- Str., Eduard-Bernstein- Str., Karl-Kautzky- Str., Mayor- Reuter- Str., Carl-Goerdeler- Str., Geschwister-Scholl- Str. and Stauffenbergstr .
Buildings Aalto high-rise , St. Hedwig Church , Vahr community center
use
User groups Tram, cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design four-lane road, two central tracks
Technical specifications
Street length 1500 meters

The Kurt-Schumacher-Allee is a street in Bremen in the district of Vahr , district Neue Vahr southeast. It leads in an east-west direction from Julius-Brecht-Allee to Geschwister-Scholl-Straße / Stauffenbergstraße

It is divided into the sub-areas:

  • Julius-Brecht-Allee to Berliner Freiheit and
  • Berliner Freiheit to Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse.

The cross streets were u. a. named after social democratic politicians and theorists and personalities of the resistance against National Socialism in the German Reich ; otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Surname

rimless

The street was named after the lawyer, social democrat and first SPD federal chairman, Dr. Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952).

He was imprisoned by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945. From 1945 he rebuilt the SPD. In the first years of the Federal Republic he was Konrad Adenauer's great opponent .

development

Aalto skyscraper
Kurt-Schumacher-Allee and Berliner Freiheit
Civic Center Vahr
No. 62: St. Hedwig

In the Vahr, known as Flur Vare or Vora (= furrow) around 1167, over 14,000 new apartments were built for around 34,000 residents between 1955 and 1962 after the Second World War . The center of the new development was the district of Neue Vahr Südost, which in 1975 had around 9,300 inhabitants. The Gewoba was the largest developers of these social housing. The district center on Berliner Freiheit from around 1960 is the central focal point of the Vahr.

traffic

The street is the central main street in this part of the city.

The Bremen tram has been running on Kurt-Schumacher-Allee with tram line 1 since 1967. Today it runs the route Huchting - Am Brill - Hauptbahnhof - Dobben - Vahr - Osterholz - Tenever - Weserpark - Mahndorf station . At night it's called N1. Originally it drove from Arsterdamm to Blockdiek in 1967 and was extended three times out of town: 1968 to Osterholz, 2012 to Nusshorn and 2013 to Mahndorf train station. In the other direction it was extended in 1973 from Arsterdamm to Arsten , and since 1998 it has been going to Huchting.

In local transport in Bremen , bus lines 21 ( Sebaldsbrück (Mercedes-Benz) - Vahr - University ) and 29 ( Kattenturm - Hemelingen - Sebaldsbrück - Berliner Freiheit - Gustav-Radbruch-Straße) run on Kurt-Schumacher-Allee .

Buildings and facilities

On the street there are mostly four-storey buildings and a few high-rise buildings, most of which are residential buildings and in the central area on Berliner Freiheit there are two to four storeys. Commercial buildings.

Architectural monuments (for description see building)

  • Aalto high-rise from 1961 under monument protection since 1995
  • St. Hedwig Church , parish and community center and youth center from 1964 and kindergarten from 1972 under monument protection since 2000

Notable buildings and facilities

  • No. 1: 4-sch. Vahr residential complex from 1982 based on plans by Kurt Schmidt
  • No. 2 / In der Vahr 76: 2- / 3-gesch. Building of the Bremen Police (police headquarters Bremen) in a former barracks and 3-protected. New buildings
  • No. 2: 2-sch. Business and medical center
  • No. 5: 1- / 2-sch. Indoor swimming pool Vitalbad Vahr
  • No. 5A: 4-gesch. Nursing home Heinrich-Albertz -Haus of the AWO
  • No. 9/13: 14-gesch. High-rise residential building with a row of shops based on plans by Günther Hafemann and Max Säum
  • No. 23: 2-sch. Commercial building with the Wilhelm Leuschner pharmacy
  • No. 29-66: 4-sch. Residential buildings
  • Berliner Freiheit , district center from around 1960 with shops, the weekly market and the Herbert-Ritze-Bad . From 2001, sections of the shops were demolished and a shopping center was built by 2003.
    • No. 1E: 5-gesch. Commercial building with Sparkasse Bremen and pharmacy; behind it a large parking garage
    • No. 9: 21-gesch. Aalto high-rise as a 65-meter-high residential high-rise with 189 apartments from 1959/61 based on plans by Alvar Aalto , Finland ( BDA Prize Bremen 1974) as a memorable landmark.
    • No. 9C: Social center on Lake Vahr and AWO service center Vahr
    • No. 10: 2-sch. Vahr community center as a Bremen community center from 1977 based on plans by Werner Glade
    • No. 10: Seat of SC Vahr-Blockdiek , sports club from 1891
    • No. 11: 2-sch. Shopping center from 2003 with around 65 shops on 18,600 m²
    • Park with the Vahrer See
  • No. 22-54: 4-gesch. Residential buildings
  • No. 65: 2-sch. Oberschule on Kurt-Schumacher-Allee with 4-storey. Extension from 2016 based on plans by the Schulze Pampus working group and the Gestering Knipping de Vries planning group (Bremen BDA Prize 2018).
    • Mothers Center-Vahr
  • No. 71: 14-gesch. Residential high-rise
  • No. 73-97: 4-gesch. Residential buildings as “snakes” based on plans by Günther Hafemann and Max Säum
  • No. 62: St. Hedwig Catholic Church from 1964 based on plans by Theo Burlage and Bernd Nierbuer
    • Kindergarten from 1972 based on plans by Karl-Heinz Bruns

Monuments, plaques

  • Berlin freedom:
    • Sandstone relief life individually and free from 1987 by Heinrich Brumm and Miroslav from the sculpture workshop of the prison in Bremen
    • Bronze sculpture from 1987: I would love to be your teddy bear by Thomas Recker
    • Object as a roof attachment with a kinetic diamond from 1990 by Tomitaro Nachi on the roof of the post office
    • Bronze sculpture The Reclining Woman by Seff Weidl
  • No. 5: In motion: water, light and painting through 45 light boxes from 2003 by Jimmi D. Paesler

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 129
  2. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 334
  3. ↑ Excellent architecture . In: Weser-Kurier of November 18, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 21 ″  E