Lister mile
The Lister Meile is a shopping street in Hanover . It was established in the 1970s and is around 1,600 m long today, its middle third is pedestrian-friendly and the north-eastern third is a pedestrian zone . The street is in the districts of Mitte , Oststadt and List .
location
About a quarter of the Lister Meile is in the Mitte district, half in the Oststadt and a quarter in the eponymous district of List. It begins in the Mitte district on Ernst-August-Platz , crosses under the railway line near the west portal of the main train station , then Raschplatzhochstraße and runs from there in a north-easterly direction. It passes the Weissekreuzplatz and leads close to the Welfenplatz . It ends at Lister Platz in the List district. From a large-scale perspective, it ties in with the pedestrian zone coming from the city and forms its continuation. This has created a continuous pedestrian area right through the center of Hanover, which connects the Leineufer in the south over the Bahnhofstrasse with Lister Platz in the northeast over a length of around 2500 m .
The Lister Meile is a popular shopping street. Street shops from vegetable and flower dealers, trees, reddish pavement, showcases and, in summer, flowing fountains all contribute to this. In the south-west of the Lister Meile, the Weißkreuzplatz with the pavilion and numerous bars is particularly popular with nightlife. The side streets are popular residential areas in which many young families have settled in Wilhelminian style old buildings since the 1970s. The proximity to the Eilenriede offers opportunities for local recreation. At the eastern end of the Lister Meile the Podbielskistraße begins , here some Art Nouveau facades have been preserved east of the Lister Platz.
Until around 2003, the smallest pub in Hanover was located on the Lister Meile with around 10 m² in the form of the Zum Fässchen beer restaurant . Since then, there is a cafe coffee grinder housed.
history
prehistory
Today's Lister Meile was originally part of the highway from Hanover to Celle. Since 1775 it has been called Alte Celler Poststraße , from 1845 between Lister Platz and Wedekindstraße Celler Straße and on towards Alte Celler Heerstraße station . As an arterial road from the city center, it was always heavily frequented.
From 1880 a horse-drawn tram ran from the city center to Lister Platz, which was replaced by an electrified tram in 1887 .
In the time of National Socialism there were also persecutions against residents in Celler Strasse . Stumbling blocks were later set in her memory , including 8 stumbling blocks in front of the (today's) building Lister Meile 77/79 and in front of the house Lister Meile 83 for Kurt Willkomm .
Many buildings on the street were destroyed by the air raids on Hanover during World War II, such as the Leibniz School on Weissekreuzplatz in 1943 . At the current location of the pavilion was the court prison, which was demolished in the 1960s and in which, among others, the communist labor leader Ernst Thälmann was imprisoned during the National Socialist era.
Creation of the Lister Mile
As a "reorganization behind the train station to Lister Platz", the Lister Meile was created in the 1970s according to the plans of the later city building councilor Hanns Adrian . The construction of the underground line A along Celler Straße and its continuation, the Alte Celler Heerstraße , made the above-ground redesign necessary. The pedestrian zone should also connect the east city to the city, because this district was always behind the train station and cut off from the center. The need for a change in urban planning and traffic engineering also resulted from the high traffic load in this most densely populated residential area in Hanover. Until the 1950s, long-distance traffic between Hamburg and Frankfurt ( Bundesstrasse 3 ) ran via Lister Platz. The redesign with the general ban on car traffic calmed the adjoining urban areas considerably.
After construction began in 1970, the first 750 m long section between Hamburger Allee and Wedekindstrasse was inaugurated with a street festival on November 16, 1972. The “Meile” was completely finished on November 18, 1975. The new street name was found in a competition that the “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung” had advertised among its readers.
About 50% of the new street was built as a pedestrian zone, and the remaining part of the street was calmed down. The entire length of the tram was laid underground as a light rail line . Initially there was considerable resistance to the redesign from residents and business people, who founded a citizens' initiative (Association of U-Bahn Residents) . The protests fell silent after the favorable development, and in retrospect the Lister Meile has made a significant contribution to the fact that the urban areas around it have developed into coveted residential and business districts close to the city center.
In 1999 the last remnant of the street name Alte Celler Heerstraße , which led from Ernst-August-Platz to Raschplatz , was canceled “and included in the Lister Meile”.
Light rail
Since the spring of 1976 the lines of the light rail line A have been running under the Lister Meile . The Sedanstraße / Lister Meile and Lister Platz underground stations are in the street area .
The Üstra was 1995, the station Sedanstraße as Graffiti Spray Art Work. Four young graffiti artists from Hanover and three established sprayers from New York worked on around 1,500 square meters of wall space with 3,000 spray cans. The art project was named "Hannover – New York Express".
During the period of the 2015 to 2019 local transport plan , part of the D tram will be expanded as part of the Ten-Seventeen project . In 2017 it was moved from Ernst-August-Platz to the Lister Meile. The light rail line ends after a few hundred meters on the Lister Meile immediately before the junction with Hamburger Allee at the Hauptbahnhof / ZOB stop, which was newly built in 2017 . Near the northern entrance to the new elevated platform, an additional elevator and a staircase were to lead down from the street level to the distribution level of the Raschplatz , in order to create short, barrier-free transfer connections with the Hauptbahnhof underground station , which is located on the Stadtbahn line A under Raschplatz . However, the elevator was not built (see Hannover Stadtbahn #Barrier-free expansion ).
Events
- Weekly market on Thursday
- Lister Miles Festival on a weekend in June
- Christmas market during Advent.
literature
- Hanns Adrian, Gerhard Bünemann: A street changes its face. Hanover 1972.
Web links
- Website of Aktion Lister Meile e. V.
- Körting fountain at hannover.de
- Interactive 360 ° panorama photo of the Lister Meile
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
- ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names - changes since 1997. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 54 (2000?), Pp. 177-189; here: p. 177.
- ↑ The schedule for the construction of the D line is available , article in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 30, 2013
- ↑ e-government.hannover-stadt.de
- ↑ Project TEN SEVENTEEN. (No longer available online.) December 12, 2017, archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on January 26, 2018 . 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.
- ↑ eVIT_net - the project server for eVIT projects on the Internet. Printed Resolution No. 1313 (III), Printed Resolution No. 0383/2014. (No longer available online.) In: evit-net.de. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 18, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: SPD calls for a new elevator at Raschplatz. Retrieved January 26, 2018 (German).
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 15 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 57 ″ E