Nordallee (Trier)

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North avenue
Theodor-Heuss-Allee, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee
coat of arms
Street in Trier
North avenue
Nordallee opposite the Porta Nigra
Basic data
place trier
District center
Connecting roads Bahnhofstrasse , Lindenstrasse , Ausoniusstrasse
Cross streets At the Theodor-Heuss-Allee:

At the Nordallee:

At Friedrich-Ebert-Allee:

Places Porta-Nigra-Platz , Platz am Balduinbrunnen
Buildings Headquarters of the Sparkasse Trier , hospital of the Merciful Brothers

The North Avenue is a road on the outskirts of Trier Old Town . Historically, the Theodor-Heuss-Allee and the Friedrich-Ebert-Allee also count towards the street, which is why they are dealt with in this article. It is the boulevard of Trier.

course

The Theodor-Heuss-Allee / Nordallee / Friedrich-Ebert-Allee runs from the intersection at Balduinbrunnen near the main station via Porta-Nigra-Platz to the intersection of Ausoniusstrasse / Bruchhausenstrasse. Today the road consists of three sections:

  • The eastern section between Porta-Nigra-Platz and Balduinplatz is officially called Theodor-Heuss-Allee and is a one-way street . The Christophstraße runs parallel to this , which is also a one-way street.
  • The middle section is still called Nordallee today and can be used in both directions.
  • The westernmost section is officially called Friedrich-Ebert-Allee and is also a one-way street . Lindenstrasse runs parallel to this , which is also a one-way street.

The single-lane sections are traveled in an east-west direction; the parallel streets in the opposite direction, ergo in west-east direction.

history

The name "Nordallee" is a location name, because the street runs in the north of the city. It was laid out in 1777 as a walnut avenue. In 1857, the city wall's moat, which ran parallel to the street, was removed. The basic concept of today's facilities goes back to the year 1860 and partly covers the facilities of the city moat and city wall. Historically, the north avenue connected the old shooting trench (today a green area at the intersection of Lindenstrasse / Friedrich-Ebert-Allee) on the north-western edge of the city wall with the main station or the north-eastern edge of the city wall.

During the time of National Socialism , the western part of the street and Bahnhofstrasse , today Theodor-Heuss-Allee and Bahnhofstrasse, were renamed Adolf-Hitler-Strasse . In the course of denazification , the street was given its old name again.

In 1964 the eastern section between Porta-Nigra-Platz and the main train station was officially renamed in 1964 after the first German Federal President Theodor Heuss , an honorary citizen of Trier.

1925–1933 and since 1945 the historically westernmost section of the street is named Friedrich-Ebert-Allee after the first German Reich President Friedrich Ebert .

Buildings in the street

In Nordallee and Theodor-Heuss-Allee there are some important cultural monuments. It is also part of the monument zone Theodor-Heuss-Allee 7–22, Bahnhofstrasse 23–26 . Most of the buildings date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and are in the style of historicism or art nouveau .

A detailed list of the cultural monuments in Nordallee can be found here or for the section mentioned in Theodor-Heuss-Allee here . Some outstanding buildings are described in more detail below.

Theodor-Heuss-Allee

Sparkasse Trier, formerly Kreissparkasse Trier-Saarburg, in the Theodor-Heuss-Allee 1

Streetscape formative especially erected in the 1970s, building the Trier is Kreissparkasse today Sparkasse Trier, Theodor-Heuss-Allee 1. In front of the building is a bronze monument with a "swineherd with pigs" by Hanns Scherl from Wittlich from the year 1979.

In addition, two other historic buildings stand out in the Theodor-Heuss-Allee:

House Theodor-Heuss-Allee 13

Theodor-Heuss-Allee 13

This is a two-story house built by August Massing in 1878 as a capital investment. An original colored tiled floor - probably from Villeroy & Boch - has been preserved in the hallway . The intermediate door to the stairwell is designed with curved glass cutouts in typical Art Nouveau elements. The front garden is also well preserved, including the fencing with rusticated pillars; the wrought iron grille was renewed in 1987. It is one of the best examples of Wilhelminian style building on Trier's Alleenring.

House Theodor-Heuss-Allee 18

Theodor-Heuss-Allee 18 in its current condition
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 18 before the renovation in 2018

This is a house built by Johann Kühn in 1880, to which a shop was added in 1933 on the acute-angled property at the confluence of Göbenstraße according to plans by the architects Brand and Mertes. In 1956, this corner shop was extended by a second floor, projecting over the ground floor, according to plans by the Trier architect Willi Haufs. While the ground floor is largely dissolved into large windows, the outer skin of the upper floor is completely glazed with windows that are tilted outwards at 10 °; three panes are connected by thin profiles. The result is a sequence of ten facade elements that implement the curve in a polygonal manner. During the day, the glazing enables optimum light incidence for the exhibition and sales area; in the dark, however, it becomes the light-modeled object that attracts attention. The design of the corner building with its slightly transparent, almost “disembodied” construction follows the ideals of building in the 1950s.

North avenue

Hospital on Nordallee Trier

Church of the "Merciful Brothers of Maria-Hilf" (Nordallee 1)

In the Nordallee, the order complex including the hospital of the “Barmherzigen Brüder von Maria-Hilf” - in Trier popularly known as the Brothers Hospital for short - in Nordallee 1 stands out. The order, founded in Koblenz, came to Trier for the first time in 1853 and has been at its current location on Nordallee since 1887. A monastery was also built together with the hospital. On September 1, 1890, the monastery church called Herz-Jesu-Kirche is consecrated. Consecration of the Church (patronage: Heart of Jesus). After the air raids on Trier in World War II, only a little of the old building remained, including the church, which is now a listed building. Therefore, a new hospital building was built from 1963 to 1968, which was expanded in 1979. In 2010 a new large helipad was inaugurated.

The so-called “Fountain of Life”, a bronze fountain, is also located on the premises of the Brothers Hospital.

At the Brothers Hospital there is also an impressive bus stop in terms of the design of the weather protection roof. In the western part of Nordallee there are also the remains of the medieval city wall of Trier, which continue in Friedrich-Ebert-Allee.

Trier Nordallee remains of the city wall

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee

Green area between Friedrich-Ebert-Allee and Franz-Ludwig-Straße

Only house 3/4 in Friedrich-Ebert-Allee is worth mentioning. This is a stately double house in the neo-renaissance style from 1895 by the architect Eberhard Lamberty. The Toni-Chorus-Halle, the home hall of the PST, is located at the Ausoniusstrasse intersection.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Emil Zenz: Street names of the city of Trier: their sense and their meaning . Ed .: Culture Office of the City of Trier. Trier 1961, DNB  455807825 .
  2. ^ Earl F. Ziemke: The US Army in the Occupation of Germany 1944-1946 . Center of Military History United States Army, Washington, DC 1975, LCCN  75-619027 , p. 261 (English, army.mil [PDF] The picture shows how the street sign in front of the Hotel Monopol (Bahnhofsplatz 7, today Hotel Vinum) is exchanged).
  3. ↑ a b Patrick Ostermann (arrangement): City of Trier. Old town. (=  Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 17.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-171-8 .
  4. ↑ Got a pig? In: volksfreund.de. July 21, 2005, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Entry on residential building (Theodor-Heuss-Allee 13) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Entry on House Theodor-Heuss-Allee 18 in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ Entry on Barmherzige Brüder von Maria Hilf in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ Helicopter landing pad of the brothers' hospital sanctified. In: 5vier.de. October 25, 2010, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  9. ^ Entry on the Brothers Hospital - Fountain of Life in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 11, 2016.
  10. ^ Toni Chorus Hall. Post sports club Trier e. V., accessed on September 7, 2015 (map and directions).

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 39 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 29.9"  E