Mauerstrasse (Düsseldorf)
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| View from Mauerstraße to the building of the State Office for Information and Technology, in the foreground the Fountain Five Bronze Arches (1981) by Elmar Hillebrand | |
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| place | Dusseldorf |
| District | Pempelfort , Golzheim |
| Created | October 31, 1876 |
| Hist. Names | Litzmannstrasse |
| Connecting roads | Nordstrasse , Rolandstrasse |
| Cross streets | Pfalzstrasse, Klever Strasse , Seydlitzstrasse, Zietenstrasse , Bankstrasse, Lützowstrasse |
| Places | Paul-Spiegel-Platz, Kolpingplatz |
| Numbering system | Orientation numbering |
| Buildings | New Düsseldorf Synagogue |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
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| Street length | 690 m |
The Mauerstraße in the Düsseldorf districts PEMPELFORT and Golzheim is a road in a popular residential area, the closed perimeter block is marked on a rectangular street grid by multi-storey apartment blocks from the first half of the 20th century. Mauerstraße connects Rolandstraße in the north with Nordstraße in the south. Its northern end is aligned with the Roland School . At the north end of Mauerstraße there was also the former main state archive in Düsseldorf , in which the holdings of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne will be temporarily stored from summer 2014 . At the corner of Zieten and Mauerstraße, the street opens up to a small square named after Paul Spiegel , where the New Synagogue is located. At the corner of Bankstrasse and Mauerstrasse, on the grounds of the State Office for Information and Technology, there is a semi-public, plane tree-lined park with an ornamental fountain with plant and animal motifs on five bronze arches that give the fountain its name, designed in 1981 by the sculptor Elmar Hillebrand . At the level of the central axis of Klever Straße , Mauerstraße crosses the border between the districts of Pempelfort and Golzheim. To the south of Klever Strasse, Mauerstrasse is bordered by Kolpingplatz , a playground and green space with an underground car park, on the edges of which the Rheinische Bauernmarkt , a market with food and flowers from the region, is held on Wednesdays and Saturdays .
Naming and history
Together with the neighboring Löwenstrasse and Ankerstrasse (today Schwerinstrasse), the name Mauerstrasse refers to a variant of the Düsseldorf city arms from the 19th century, which showed a wall crown above the Bergischer Löwen with the anchor . In heraldry , the crown of the wall stands as a symbol for the free, urban bourgeoisie . The street was inaugurated on October 31, 1876 and expanded in 1891. For a long time the Uhlan barracks of the Westphalian Uhlan Regiment No. 5 lay between the northern end of Mauerstrasse and Roßstrasse . In the mid-1920s, numerous urban apartments were built on Mauerstrasse. During the time of National Socialism , the street was renamed Litzmannstraße to commemorate the general and NSDAP member Karl Litzmann . The traditional pub Im Laternchen was located at Mauerstraße 22 . Here Hape Kerkeling shot the video for his Horst Schlämmer song Gisela .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Purpar: art city Dusseldorf. Objects and monuments in the cityscape. Grupello Verlag, 2nd edition, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-89978-044-4 , p. 139
- ^ Hermann Kleinfeld: Dusseldorf's streets and their names. Grupello, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-928234-36-6 , p. 232.
- ^ Peter Hüttenberger: Düsseldorf in the Weimar Republic. In: Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf, History from the Origins to the 20th Century Volume 3 . Patmos, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34221-X , p. 392.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 32.2 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 43.1" E