Limbecker Strasse
| Limbecker Strasse | |
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| Limbecker Strasse, looking west | |
| Basic data | |
| place | eat |
| District | City center |
| Cross streets | Black Horn, III. Hagen, Kunzelstrasse, Kastanienallee, Lindenallee, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse |
| Buildings | Limbecker Platz (shopping center) |
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| User groups | Foot traffic |
| Road design | Pedestrian zone |
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| Street length | 0.35 km |
The Limbecker Strasse is a central shopping street in Essen city center . In 1927 it was the first street in Germany to be redesigned to become a traffic-free shopping street.
Location and traffic
The Limbecker Straße starts running in an east-west direction at the market and leads about 350 meters straight down to Limbecker Platz .
Limbecker Straße once had cobblestones for horse-drawn vehicles and the first cars. There were sidewalks on both sides. On October 14, 1927, the civil engineering department south of the city of Essen issued a permanent ban on vehicles of any kind.
history
The Limbecker Straße is part of the entire 500 meter long, east-west running street from the former Steeler to Limbecker Tor , which was part of the Hellweg trading route . The Hellweg crossed the Strata Coloniensis running in north-south direction - part of this is now the street of Viehofer and Kettwiger Strasse - one of the five old streets from the early Middle Ages that connected Cologne with the surrounding area. Near the intersection of these two once important trade routes, Altfrid founded the Essen women's monastery around 850 , the beginning of today's city of Essen.
Limbecker Straße, which first appeared in written sources in 1323 as platea Lynnebeke and was called Lyndenbekerstrat and Lyndenbeker Straße in the 16th century, was named after Lindenbecke , or later Limbecke (Becke for Bach). It was a stream that used to flow through a pond at what is now Limbecker Platz. In the west of the city of Essen, which was once surrounded by city walls and moats, this river operated several mills near the Limbecker Tor (Porta Lindenbeke), first mentioned in 1323, and partially fed the moat. Since all city views at that time show Essen from the east, no image material is known of the west of the four Essen city gates. It was also eponymous for the most populous district at the time to the east.
In the Middle Ages, the area around the former Limbecker Tor was well below the current terrain level, which was raised by landfills. In 2008, parts of the Hellweg were found during the excavation for the construction of today's shopping center .
In the area of the former city gate, which is estimated to have been laid down around 1820, a triumphal arch was built in Limbecker Strasse in 1877. The reason was the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm I on September 2, 1877 in Essen. At the top of the arch was a flag with the Essen city coat of arms. The inscription was crooked in the arch: What a turn through God's guidance ; who wrote Wilhelm I after the Battle of Sedan on September 2, 1870 the then Memorial Sedan Day .
The settlement of retail shops and department stores in Limbecker Straße began at the beginning of the 20th century, so that Essen's reputation as a shopping city emerged from this.
The running through the Limbecker Tor Limbecker road passed before the Second World War and west of the door even further, to this part of 1933 during the Nazi era was renamed Thomae road, after Gottfried Thomae, a 1,928 killed by collisions with Communists Nazis. There, in the first half of the 19th century, before today's roundabout, Rheinische Strasse turned northeast to the Essen-Nord train station, which had opened as the Rheinischer Bahnhof. At the next street corner Segerothstrasse turned directly off Limbecker Strasse. Finally Limbecker Strasse ended in the west at the intersection with Altendorfer Strasse, i.e. at the entrance to the Krupp cast steel factory . Several old streets in the Essen inner city area no longer exist after the Second World War as they did before, as around 90 percent of the city center was in ruins.
Archway in Limbecker Straße in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I in September 1877, behind it the Lindenallee turns right.
Corner of Limbecker Straße / III. Hagen around 1905: Althoff department store
Corner of Limbecker Straße / III. Hagen 2015: Schuhhaus Grüterich
right: former Althoff department store from 1912 shortly before it was demolished in 2008
course
The Limbecker Straße ran through the former Limbecker Tor, which then and now leads eastwards to the Marktberg with the Marktkirche on the Flachsmarkt. On both sides of the street there are now retail stores along its entire 350-meter-long course. The house numbers start in the inner city center in the east.
In 1912 a department store owned by the Dülmen merchant Theodor Althoff was opened on the corner of Limbecker Strasse and Grabenstrasse (today Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse). At that time it was considered one of the largest department stores in Germany. After the house was destroyed in the war, the department store , which has now belonged to Karstadt since 1920 , was reopened in June 1954. In 2008 it was finally demolished in favor of today's shopping center. Opposite the Althoff department store on Limbecker Strasse there was the Sinn fashion store before 1910, which was bombed in 1943. At the beginning of the 1960s there was a new Sinn fashion house at this point. The Quelle department store was built in the early 1970s and later housed SinnLeffers again until it had to give way to the new shopping center in 2008.
At the beginning of the 20th century, from the intersection of Friedrich-Ebert Straße to the east, the deer pharmacy was on the right before the confluence with Lindenallee. Opposite, in front of the mouth of Kastanienallee, where the Deichmann company from Essen had built a new shoe store since 2007 , was the Gutmann siblings' hat shop in the 1930s. After the war, this was the home of Scheeper's household goods.
In the further course to the east there were still around 1910 partly old, slate-clad half-timbered houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, which, like newer houses, housed smaller shops at that time. Even today there is a continuous retail outlet along this street. On the corner of the III. Hagen, where the Samson shoe store had been since 1932 and the Grüterich shoe store until 2016, Theodor Althoff built his first department store in Essen in 1903. The Sportscheck department store, which was closed in 2016, was located further up on the corner of Schwarze Horn Street, which belonged to Hagen II before the war . Before that, the Cramer & Meermann clothing store was located here until 1997 . It was rebuilt after the war and reopened in early June 1951. Around 1900 there was another house with the Heinrich Mischell linen business. On the opposite corner, where the Görtz shoe store is located today, was previously a Kepa department store . Around 1900 there was the Freudenberg commercial building on this corner, which was later replaced in a new building by the consumer association "Eintracht".
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the City of Essen, Tourism ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved November 19, 2014
- ^ Official file note from the city of Essen in the city archive today
- ↑ Monika Fehse: Food. History of a city . Ed .: Ulrich Borsdorf. Peter Pomp Verlag, Bottrop, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89355-236-7 , p. 179, 180 .
- ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
- ↑ a b Hugo Rieth: Essen in old views, Volume 2 . 7th edition. Zaltbommel, Netherlands 1991, ISBN 978-90-288-3097-4 .
- ^ Historical Association for the City and Abbey of Essen e. V .: Limbecker Strasse - Essen department stores ; Retrieved November 19, 2014
- ↑ Essen Week , Issue No. 3, June 2 to 9, 1951
- ^ Hugo Rieth: Essen in old views, Volume 1 . 3. Edition. Zaltbommel, Netherlands 1978.
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '27.3 " N , 7 ° 0' 36.8" E