Long Street (Braunschweig)

Long street
Street in Braunschweig
Long road seen from the Radeklint
Basic data
place	Braunschweig
District	Neustadt
Hist. Names	longa platea
Connecting roads	to the west: Celler Strasse; to the east: Küchenstrasse
Cross streets	to the north: Alte Waage, Neuer Weg; to the south: Güldenstraße , Gördelingerstraße , Meinhardshof
Buildings	Petri Church
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport

The Long Road in the city of Braunschweig connects the easternmost cuisine road with lying to the west Radeklint . It is part of the new city ​​ring . The street, formerly characterized by half - timbered houses , lost its original character due to the destruction during the Second World War and subsequent redesigns.

history

Petrikirche on Long Street

The Lange Straße, which runs in the soft area of ​​the Neustadt , is called longa platea in 1320 . The narrow and almost dead straight street was the longest street in Neustadt with a length of about 330 m. For many centuries, poorer sections of the population lived in Langen Strasse, which found its expression in an old Braunschweig nursery rhyme - here in one of several similar versions:

"Lange Straße, Klint and Werder,

Everyone beware of that.

Nickelnkulk isn't better either,

because man-eaters live there. "

In the early 1930s, was the long road, the later NSDAP - Gauleiter Hartmann Lauterbacher called "reddest Street Brunswick," used as a staging ground Nazi riot troops to provoke the communist-dominated workforce.

In 1937 and 1938, the houses at Lange Strasse 36 - 40 were demolished in order to set up a children's playground on the site. This was inaugurated in 1939 together with the bronze figure of the "broom man". This symbolizes the first phase of the renovation of the old town, which was completed this year.

The half-timbered buildings on Langen Strasse were destroyed during the Second World War. In the post-war period, this was converted into a significantly widened traffic lane in the sense of a “ car-friendly city ”. On November 14, 1987, the new tram line from Hagenmarkt to Radeklint, which divides Lange Strasse, opened.

On June 18, 2005, during an NPD rally in downtown Braunschweig, the train of NPD supporters was supposed to be stopped by a sit-in by counter-demonstrators on Langen Straße. As a result of stones and bottles being thrown by strangers, the police used water cannons. In subsequent court proceedings it was decided that the use of water cannons as well as the encirclement of uninvolved passers-by on the Hagenmarkt was illegal.

Development

Historic buildings

At the western end, near the St. Petri church courtyard, there was Braunschweig's oldest beguinage , which was donated in 1290 by the blacksmith Johann von Monstede. Originally up to twelve single women lived here in an order-like community, who performed their daily prayers in a small neighboring chapel. The institution, which originally belonged to the parish of St. Andreas , came to the parish of St. Petri in 1330 after a long dispute. The number of female residents in the 16th century was between 13 and 15 women and between 1711 and 1734 between 16 and 21 people. After the destruction during the Second World War, the beguinage was closed in 1954.

At the eastern end of Langen Strasse, on the corner of Alte Waage , stood the half-timbered Ghellerburg house built in 1435 . It was destroyed during World War II.

One of the most famous half-timbered buildings in Braunschweig was the so-called Nagelsche Haus, Lange Strasse No. 9, built in 1536, described by Karl Steinacker as the oldest and richest house in the fan ornament group . The house was destroyed in World War II.

On the half-timbered house at Lange Straße No. 5 there was the inscription: alle dinc vorgeit goddes word helps in eternity.

The public library was located between Langen Strasse and Hintern Brüdern from 1928 until the move to Braunschweig Castle in 2007 . The building was sold by the city to an investor in 2010 and was demolished.

Today's development

On May 23, 1971 the extension of the company CW Böttger, Grüner Löwe , was opened. Between 1983 and 1985, the new building complex “Grüner Löwe” was built between the streets Hintern Brüdern and Lange Straße by the Obi hardware store chain . The home improvement store opened on February 27, 1985.

At the end of the 1990s, the construction of a large cinema at Langen Strasse 60 was planned. On July 8, 1997, the city council of Braunschweig decided on the design of the Omniplex film theater company. The large construction site has been used by city archaeologists for excavations since November 1997, which by the "Open Excavation Day" on May 17, 1998 yielded around 2000 finds. The Cinemaxx Braunschweig was the first multiplex cinema in the region to open in 2000. From July 1, 2010, the cinema will operate under the new operator Hans-Joachim Flebbe as “C1 Cinema”.

literature

• Johannes Angel: Long Street . In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann and Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5
• Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories, Volume 1: Innenstadt , Cremlingen 1995, ISBN 3-92706-011-9
• Karsten Kablitz: The Braunschweiger Neustadt in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period Archaeological investigations on Weberstrasse and Langen Strasse 1997 to 1999. Part 1: Text. Part 2: Articles, catalogs and tables , VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2005

Web links

Commons : Lange Straße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of St. Petri

Individual evidence

1. ^ Higher regional court also decides: Braunschweiger Kessel illegal , Braunschweiger Zeitung, October 27, 2006
2. ^ Karl Steinacker: The city of Braunschweig , Stuttgart 1924; New edition: Archiv Verlag Braunschweig, 2006, p. 135.
3. ↑ Famous art places: No. 31 - Braunschweig
4. ^ The demolition of the old library has begun , Braunschweiger Zeitung, January 9, 2011

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '  N , 10 ° 31'  E