Nordstrasse (Düsseldorf)

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North street
Ratinger Chaussee
coat of arms
Street in Düsseldorf
North street
View from the Dreieck tram stop to the southwest into the intersection of Nordstraße / Goebenstraße / Mauerstraße
Basic data
place Dusseldorf
District Pempelfort
Hist. Names Ratinger Chaussee
Cross streets Collenbachstrasse, Blücherstrasse, Mauerstrasse , Goebenstrasse, Parkstrasse, Schwerinstrasse, Duisburger Strasse, Kaiserswerther Strasse , Venloer Strasse, Nordcaree, Kaiserstrasse , Fischerstrasse
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport (subway, tram, bus)
Technical specifications
Street length approx. 700 m
Construction and leveling plan for the expansion of the city of Düsseldorf , 1854: Nordstrasse, which has hardly been built up, is mapped at the bottom left.

The North Street , formerly Ratingen Chaussee , the main shopping street in Düsseldorf district PEMPELFORT , Stadtbezirk 1 . It stretches for around 700 meters from Kaiserstrasse and Fischerstrasse in the southwest to Collenbachstrasse and Blücherstrasse in the northeast, where it continues through Münsterstrasse in the direction of the Derendorf district .

history

Nordstrasse has always been part of the highway from Düsseldorf to the north and northeast, especially to Ratingen , Wesel and Münster . At today's corner of Nordstrasse and Fischerstrasse stood the “Zum Luftballon” tavern, which got its name from a nearby open-air area that aviation pioneers used at the beginning of the 19th century for the ascent of hot air balloons . On November 2, 1811, Emperor Napoleon I , at that time also regent of the Grand Duchy of Berg , was solemnly received by an escort in front of this building and escorted to the Bergische state capital Düsseldorf. The Kaiserstraße that begins here still bears his title today .

Where the Collenbachstrasse joins at the northeast end of Nordstrasse, not far from today's Dreieck tram stop , was the Collenbach'sche Gut , a simple country house with an English garden, which Elisa von Ahlefeldt and her lover, the poet Carl Leberecht Immermann , lived in in the 1830s and was a meeting place for artists. This country house, which for example the couple Heinrich von Sybel , the Düsseldorf painters Carl Friedrich Lessing , Theodor Hildebrandt , Heinrich Mücke and Eduard Steinbrück , the sculptor Christian Friedrich Tieck , the writers Ferdinand Freiligrath , Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter , Karl Schnaase , Friedrich von Uechtritz , Christian Dietrich Grabbe , Michael Beer and Johann Peter Eckermann as well as the musicians Julius Rietz , Norbert Burgmüller and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , was part of a field mark that stretched along what was then Ratinger Chaussee . The writer Ludmilla Assing described the property as follows:

“ A large garden surrounding it was gracefully planted by Elisa; soon an abundance of roses unfolded their splendor in it, all the beds were bordered with them, and they bloom most beautifully under the poet's window. Two busts, depicting Plato and Aristotle , shimmered through the shady bushes. A tall hawthorn hedge, which Immermann later immortalized in a love scene in his “ Merlin ”, shone in fragrant flowers. "

The building and leveling plan of 1854, which mapped the expansion of the city beyond the historic center of Düsseldorf, including the early development of Pempelfort in the middle of the 19th century, recorded the first, but only sporadic, roadside development for Nordstraße. The painter Erik Bodom lived in one of these buildings, at Nordstrasse 39, in the 1870s . The painter Gustav Adolf Koettgen died in house number 100 in 1882 . A few steps further on, at Nordstrasse 116, there was a Protestant “Mägdeherberge” in the buildings and on areas of the former Collenbach'schen Gut in the second half of the 19th century. It was called Martha-Stift and was opened in 1863 as a training and further education facility of the Inner Mission for unmarried female domestic staff (" maids "). In 1903 the Collenbach'sche Gut was demolished in order to develop the area in terms of urban development.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Nordstraße was finally completely urbanized and completely built up. With the rapid growth of the surrounding districts, it took on the function of a shopping and business street in addition to transport tasks. Imposing business premises and department stores gave it an urban , big-city look early on . During this time, it experienced a certain degree of traffic relief from the construction of Klever Strasse , which diverted traffic radially. The area where the Kaiserswerther Strasse joins was of particular importance for local traffic to the north . Here, on October 31, 1899, the Düsseldorf-Duisburg small railroad began operating . At the beginning of the First World War , houses on Nordstrasse were temporarily confiscated in order to be able to billet soldiers from the eight replacement regiments stationed for the deployed regiments. The Second World War also caused considerable damage to Nordstrasse through air raids . In the course of the reconstruction and with the widespread prosperity that resulted from the " economic miracle ", Nordstrasse developed into a modern main shopping street, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. Contributing to this was the establishment of one-way rules and other restrictions on car traffic that reduce through traffic. However, the road was not converted into a pedestrian zone .

In November 1981 the tax investigator Klaus Förster came across a cash book in a locker in the former Dresdner Bank branch on Nordstrasse, in which cash payments to all parties represented in the German Bundestag were recorded. This discovery led to the uncovering of the Flick affair and gave rise to public disputes over covert party donations , which went down in the history of the Bonn Republic . An investigator metaphorically characterized the site on Nordstrasse as the “Pharaohs grave”.

Main shopping street

Corner of Nordstrasse / Duisburger Strasse

Nordstrasse is only approx. 1 km away from the old town and city ​​center districts as well as the shopping and service offerings concentrated there. Nevertheless, together with its cross streets, as a so-called “B-Center”, it forms a supply area of ​​the second-highest level, in whose catchment area, in addition to Pempelfort, districts of the Derendorf and Golzheim districts are located. The range and depth of the 197 shops (2012) create a “convenient local supply situation”. A “very good mix of branches” with a total sales area of ​​over 13,000 m² is rounded off by numerous restaurants and service providers, which make Nordstraße a popular shopping location for customers from other parts of the city, especially as it is easy to use both by local public transport and by car can be achieved. A Rhenish farmers' market on Wednesdays and Saturdays on Kolpingplatz , a little to the north, complements the local supply options on Nordstrasse with regionally produced foods and flowers. The advertising community “Nördliche Innenstadt” eV takes care of the concerns of the traders on Nordstrasse and its side streets

Transportation

At the southwest end of Nordstrasse is the Nordstrasse underground station , which is served by the U78 and U79 lines. Above ground there is a possibility to change to tram lines 701 and 705. At the northeast end of Nordstraße is the Dreieck tram stop , where tram lines 701, 705 and 707 stop. The Venloer Straße stop is in the middle section of Nordstraße . The tram lines 701, 705, 707 and the bus line 722 stop there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Nolden: Düsseldorf-Derendorf . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 978-3-89702-404-5 , p. 59 ( online )
  2. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt : Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf , Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 89.
  3. ^ Collenbachs Gut (wood engraving from 1858) , website in the portal duesseldorf.de , accessed on February 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ 1832 (entry on the Düsseldorf timeline): Immermann founds the theater association (illustration of the so-called "Immermann Circle" on Collenbach's estate, around 1830) , website in the duesseldorf.de portal , accessed on February 9, 2014.
  5. ^ Edmund Spohr : Düsseldorf. City and fortress . Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1979, p. 222.
  6. ↑ Quoted from: Irene Markowitz , Anja Zimmermann: Karl Leberecht Immermann and the Collenbach'sche Gut . In: Wieland König (Ed.): Düsseldorfer Gartenlust . Catalog of the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf for the exhibition of the same name from May 2 to October 11, 1987, Düsseldorf 1987, p. 50.
  7. ^ A. Kollmann: Servants Police for the Rhine Province , Schrobsdorff, Düsseldorf 1891, p. 59
  8. ↑ Ulrich Brzosa: 100 years Caritas association for the city of Dusseldorf. The history of Caritas in Düsseldorf from the beginning to the present . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2004, p. 164.
  9. ↑ Peter Hasubek: "In this world ... I can hardly wish for better conditions ..." . In: Gerhard Kurz (ed.): Düsseldorfer in the German intellectual history . Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-590-30244-5 , p. 299.
  10. ^ Rainer Nolden: Düsseldorf-Derendorf . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 978-3-89702-404-5 , p. 57.
  11. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt: Small history of the city of Düsseldorf , Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 147.
  12. ^ Harald Frater, Thomas LH Schmidt: The Düsseldorf Atlas. History and present of the state capital on the map . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2006, p. 129.
  13. ↑ That idiot made a confession . Article from January 30, 1984 in the portal spiegel.de (Der Spiegel, 5/1984), accessed on February 19, 2014.
  14. ↑ The appearance of the white vests . Article from November 28, 1983 in the portal spiegel.de (Der Spiegel, 48/1983), accessed on February 19, 2014.
  15. ↑ CSU: We'll be louder and louder . Article from July 2, 1984 in the portal spiegel.de (Der Spiegel, 27/1984), accessed on February 19, 2014.
  16. ↑ Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ed.): Pedestrian frequency count in Düsseldorf district centers. An inventory of the IHK Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf, March 2012, p. 20 f.
  17. ↑ Nicole Lange: Shopping in Düsseldorf: Districts offer a wide range of shops . Article from May 26, 2013 in the portal rp-online.de (Rheinische Post), accessed on February 19, 2014.
  18. ↑ Advertising and interest groups in the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , File in PDF, accessed on the duesseldorf.ihk.de portal on March 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duesseldorf.ihk.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 49.7 ″  E