Metzer Strasse (Bremerhaven)

Metzer Strasse, west side

The Metzer Straße in Bremerhaven is a short connecting road in Geestemünde .

history

With the new central station, the Deutsche Ring, the southern part of what would later become Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, was created. It was never actually a “ring”, rather an incomplete ring road . The lower arch of the inverted C ends as a residential street with trees on both sides. The natural and much more popular extension was and is Metzer Strasse. It leads to the cross street An der Mühle , which connects Georgstraße (formerly Bundesstraße 6 ) with Schiffdorferdamm and Schiffdorf . On the eastern side, Metzer Straße was a two-lane street until the 1960s. It was also used by the trolleybuses to Schiffdorferdamm. The western half was an unpaved park area with old trees.

The two high-rise buildings and the block between them are part of the church block that was built by the Evangelical Lutheran Association in the early 1950s. In the smaller skyscraper were a fashion store (later a real estate office) and a small bakery, the first branch of the Engelbrecht town bakery. In the row of shops there was a kiosk (Jimmy Knie), a radio and television shop (Koplin), a hairdresser (Papke), a flower shop (Schröder), a fishmonger (Sturz), a drugstore, a driving school, a fruit and vegetable dealer ( Schokolowski) and a candy store. The east side was already being built on in the 1920s by the Bremerhaven housing cooperative. There only one shoemaker ran his workshop in the corner house at the south end.

Vossstrasse

Social housing on Vossstrasse

In the southern extension of Metzer Strasse, Vossstrasse leads to Geestemünde-Süd . Long existing as a garden path, it was considered a residential street in 1936 and named after Johann Heinrich Voss . It was continuously built and expanded from 1955 to 1965. At the Hamburger Strasse intersection, it becomes Am Oberhamm.

See also

• Friedrich-Ebert-Straße (Bremerhaven) #Development
• retail trade
• Geestemünde # memory
• Tram Bremerhaven # Further development

literature

• Herbert Körtge: The street names of the seaside town of Bremerhaven , 3rd edition Heimatbund, Bremerhaven 1992.