Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade
The Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade is a shopping promenade in downtown Hanover , in the Mitte district . The entire length of the passage is largely open to the top and in the underground area it is opened with breakthroughs and stairs up to the train station and the pedestrian zone at ground level, so that the tunnel character has largely been avoided. There are many, mostly small, shops as well as fashion and snack bars along the approximately 650-meter-long shopping arcade . It was built in the 1970s when the underground light rail system was being built and was originally called Passerelle until it was renamed in 2002 in honor of the artist Niki de Saint Phalle .
course
The promenade runs on the minus 1 level below street level and extends from the Kröpcke under the main train station to the Lister Tor high-rise building on Raschplatz , where it merges into the Lister Meile pedestrian zone at normal street level. Between Kröpcke and the main train station, it runs within Bahnhofstrasse , which is at normal street level and is designed as a pedestrian zone. The Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade thus runs in the urban development axis from the center of the city at Kröpcke to Raschplatz. In this way, it forms part of the pedestrian zone coming from the city and leading to the Lister Meile. This has created a continuous pedestrian area in downtown Hanover, which connects the Leineufer in the south with Lister Platz in the northeast over a length of around 2,500 meters .
In the area between Kröpcke and the main station, originally Passerelle A, there is shop after shop along the entire length. There is a uniform architecture with glass and steel elements. Here, three level bridges above the promenade connect both sides of Bahnhofstrasse, divide the opening to the sky into four sections and serve as access to the stairs down to the promenade. Between another opening in Ernst-August-Platz and the open Raschplatz there are only a few stair holes apart from one opening at the transition from the train station to the subway station . There are also a large number of shops in this underground area under the train station in the original area of Passerelle B.
Access to the train station, the lower-lying tram and the usual street level are provided by stairs and escalators . For passers-by who are unable to use them, two elevators lead to the train station and elevators in the area of Raschplatz lead to the tram below and to the usual street level. In addition to an elevator to the end of Bahnhofstrasse at the last open section in front of Ernst-August-Platz and various stairs along the entire course of the promenade, as well as the possibility of changing levels in larger shops, escalators and elevators also lead to the ground-level pedestrian zone at the other end , or to the tracks and levels of the Kröpcke subway station . All lines of the Hanover Stadtbahn stop at at least one of the underground stations Kröpcke and Hauptbahnhof, or above ground at Ernst-August-Platz, and all lines of the Hanover S-Bahn stop - in addition to other rail traffic - at the Hauptbahnhof. The central bus station on the other side of the Lister Meile northwest of Raschplatz and other bus stops are naturally in the above-ground area of the promenade.
idea
The pioneering thinker of the passerelle was Hanns Adrian , Hanover’s city planning officer, who had already drafted an idea sketch in 1966 that came very close to the later execution. He developed the idea of initially connecting the two tram stations Kröpcke and Hauptbahnhof on a lower level. This also made it possible to overcome the railroad barrier (underground) in order to better connect the Oststadt district behind the station with the city center for pedestrians.
Emergence
The pedestrian and shopping mile, originally known as the passerelle , was created when the underground tram was built in the 1970s, as was the adjoining Lister Mile . First the tram tunnel was built between 1971 and 1975 using the cut-and-cover method at a depth of up to 10 meters. Afterwards, the pedestrian area open to the top with shops was set up in the excavation pit above it as a minus 1 level.
business
In 1999 the real estate company Hannover Region Grundstücksgesellschaft (HRG) acquired the passerelle as an investor. In 2001, a section was fundamentally redesigned and renamed in 2002 when it reopened in honor of the artist and Hanoverian honorary citizen Niki de Saint Phalle . The redesign contributed to a significant increase in the attractiveness of the shopping city of Hanover. Critics complained about the renovation measure that only two thirds of the route between the Kröpcke and the main train station had been renewed, but the remaining part in the area of the Raschplatz still made a neglected impression, especially due to the city pigeons nesting there . In the years 2004 to 2006, the line under the Ernst August Memorial and the main train station was modernized. By September 2010, Raschplatz was redesigned up to Berliner Allee and by July 2011 the pedestrian tunnel leading under Berliner Allee in front of the Lister Tor high-rise building was simply renewed. The renovation of the Kröpcke Center at the end of the promenade towards the center should give it a uniform, all-round renewed look. In the course of the work that began in early 2009, the broad access level (level −1) to the Kröpcke subway station , the so-called "Kröpcke-Loch", was closed by pulling the facade of the Kröpcke Center forward.
The promenade is centrally located in the center of Hanover and is one of the street areas with the densest pedestrian traffic. The flow of visitors and pedestrians can also be traced back to the connection between the shopping area and the main train station above it, which, as a regional and supraregional traffic junction, is visited by up to 250,000 passers-by every day.
Web links
- Official site of the promenade
- The promenade at www.hannover.de
- Website of the operating company HRG with photos and information on the Passerelle Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade renovation project
- Interactive 360 ° panorama photo of the Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niki de Saint Phalle-Promenade on hannover-online.de, accessed on April 23, 2020.
- ↑ The new Raschplatz in Hanover is ready . Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 16, 2010. Accessed August 31, 2012.
- ↑ The Raschplatz tunnel will be opened at the weekend . Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , July 26, 2011. Retrieved on August 31, 2012.
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 31.6 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 22.8" E