Magdeburger Allee
The Magdeburger Allee is a main road in the north of the Thuringian capital of Erfurt . It begins at the valley junction and leads over 2500 meters north to Henry-Pels-Platz through the districts of Johannesvorstadt , Andreasvorstadt and Ilversgehofen .
Location in urban space
The start of Magdeburger Allee is the Talknoten, an intersection from which Johannesstrasse leads inwards and Magdeburger Allee outwards. The city ring also crosses here . In the area of the Talknotens the outer Johannestor used to be, which separated the old town from the Johannesvorstadt. The approximately 35 meter wide Magdeburger Allee leads north, past the administrative complex of the Stadtwerke , a depot for the Erfurt tram and the Luther Churchto the intersection with Eislebener Straße and Papiermühlenweg. On this first section it is the border between the Andreasvorstadt in the west and the Johannesvorstadt in the east. North of the intersection, both sides of the street belong to Ilversgehofen. The area behind the eastern row of houses on Magdeburger Allee was undeveloped on the next section to Ilversgehofener Platz until the 1960s and served as a military site. At that time, the first prefabricated building area in Erfurt was built there, Johannesplatz with five residential high-rise buildings and numerous lower prefab buildings.
The Ilversgehofener Platz is a green area directly on Magdeburger Allee. It is the center of the Ilversgehofen district, although the old village church is further west on Nikolausstrasse. At Ilversgehofener Platz, Mittelhäuser Straße branches off from Magdeburger Allee to Mittelhausen in the northwest and Salinenstraße to the saltworks settlement to the northeast. Magdeburger Allee leaves Ilversgehofener Platz in a northerly direction as a road closed to traffic, on which only trams run. The reason for this is the bridge over the tram line, built in 1992, over the Nordhausen – Erfurt railway line , whose foundations are on Magdeburger Allee. North of the railway line, it continues to Henry-Pels-Platz, where it joins with Hugo-John-Strasse, which is also coming from the south, and then branches off onto Stotternheimer Strasse and Schwerborner Strasse. At Henry-Pels-Platz there is a tram turning loop with P + R parks.
history
The street of Magdeburger Allee was mainly built between the defoliation of Erfurt in 1873 and the First World War. Since it is located in the industrial north of Erfurt, it was a traditional working-class residential area. Trams have been running on Magdeburger Allee since the Erfurt tram was founded in 1883.
In the name history, a distinction must be made between the Erfurt part and the Ilversgehofener part. The Erfurt part existed as a continuation of Johannesstraße and was named Magdeburger Straße in 1884 (after the provincial capital of Magdeburg at the time ). The Ilversgehofener part was initially just called Hauptstraße . After the community became a district of Erfurt in 1911, Hauptstrasse was renamed Poststrasse in 1912 . In 1933 the parts were merged and renamed Horst-Wessel-Straße after Horst Wessel . In 1945 it was first renamed the Street of Good Hope and a little later into Weißenseer Allee (after Weißensee ). After the founding of the GDR, the name Stalinallee was chosen in 1950 , which became Karl-Marx- Allee in 1961 and finally in 1990, following on from the old name Magdeburger Allee . This is the eighth name of the street.
Since the 1920s, Magdeburger Allee has developed into the economic and cultural center of northern Erfurt. In 1921 the Luther Community was founded, with the Luther Church at Magdeburger Allee 34, completed in 1926, with its own church building. In 1922, the courtyard building of the house at Magdeburger Allee 136 was converted into a union building for the factory workers' association . In 1928 the Union Cinema was built on Ilversgehofender Platz, Magdeburger Allee 144–146, at the corner of Stollbergstrasse. Since 1992, the community of interests of local traders, Das Beste im Norden eV, has organized the Magdeburger Allee Festival every year in June.
meaning
Magdeburger Allee once served all traffic from Erfurt to the north, in particular to Stotternheim and Sömmerda and further on towards Sangerhausen – Magdeburg, but also to Mittelhausen and Schwerborn. Today only the traffic to Mittelhausen leads over the street, the traffic in the direction of Sömmerda is led east over the Eugen-Richter-Strasse. The road is also important for public transport. Stadtbahn lines 1 and 5 run along Magdeburger Allee, where the Lutherkirche , Wendenstraße , Ilversgehofener Platz , Salinenstraße and Grubenstraße stops are located. The Erfurt Nord train station with rail connections to Nordhausen and Bad Langensalza / Kassel is also located directly on Magdeburger Allee.
Occasionally Magdeburger Allee is referred to as the “longest shopping street in Thuringia”, which is due to the fact that most of the houses have small shops. In addition to basic supplies close to home such as bakers, butchers and hairdressers, second-hand shops in particular are often to be found. In recent years, cultural life has gradually developed on Magdeburger Allee. The main street character of the green avenue, the cultural offerings of the Evangelical Luther Church, the trendy bar ILVERS Café and the nearby Heiligenmühle as well as the cultural, educational and social facilities in the street, the good accessibility with the local public transport and the cheap rents all contribute.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 35 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 32 ″ E