Oberstrasse (Düren)

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Former villa of the manufacturer Eugen Hoesch

The Oberstraße in the district town of Düren ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) is an old inner-city street . It crosses the street Bonner Straße / Stürtzstraße , the federal highway 264 .

The street begins at the market and ends at the confluence of Nideggener Straße / Friedrichstraße / Zülpicher Straße .

There are the following listed buildings in Oberstraße :

The street An der Gerstenmühle joins as a cul-de-sac . During the Second World War there was a collection camp for Jews from Düren and the surrounding area. They were deported from here to the concentration camps .

history

As early as 748 there must have been a path from the Königspfalz to the Erbforsthof. At the intersection with Bonner Strasse there was a city ​​gate , the Obertor . It was a flat-roofed semicircular tower, next to it a gate passage. The gate tower on the city side was more of a half-timbered residential building. The upper gate was laid down in 1822.

The town church, the Martin church and later Anna church stood on Oberstrasse. It was completely destroyed in the air raid on November 16, 1944 . The successor building is today's Anna Church .

Thomas Josef Heimbach was born in Oberstraße 22 . A memorial plaque on the house, which was built on the site of the destroyed birthplace, commemorates him .

From 1908 to 1944 the tram of the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB) ran on Oberstrasse. The single-track route led from Markt to Niederau and on to Kreuzau . There were stops on Bonner Strasse and Friedrichplatz, the latter with a siding. There was also a siding just before the market square. After the Second World War, the line was not rebuilt.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH (ed.): 75 years of Dürener Kreisbahn ; Düren 1983, p. 14

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '54.7 "  N , 6 ° 29' 8.2"  E