Brady passage
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 21' E
| Brady passage | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 10. |
| quarter | Porte-Saint-Denis , Porte-Saint-Martin |
| Beginning | 43, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin |
| The End | 46, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis |
| morphology | |
| length | 216 m |
| width | 3.5 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1828 |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 1261 |
.jpg)
The Passage Brady is a covered shopping arcade from the 19th century in the 10th arrondissement of Paris . The Passage Brady is since 7 March 2002 worth protecting Monument ( monument historique ).
location
The Passage Brady is between 46, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis and 33 Boulevard de Strasbourg , in a mixed residential and commercial area outside the former city walls, which were demolished in the 17th century and in its place the Grands Boulevards were created . Château d'Eau is the nearest metro station on line 4 that crosses Paris from south to north. The proximity to the large boulevards favored the construction of the passage.
Name origin
The passage was named after the name of its builder, Monsieur Brady, who ran his business on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, exactly where the entrance to the passage is today.
history
It was inaugurated on April 15, 1828 and its eastern part, which reached as far as the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin , was destroyed in 1854 when under Napoleon III. and the Prefect Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the Boulevard de Strasbourg , a major axis from Châtelet to Gare de l'Est , was created. Originally there were around 100 shops in the passage and apartments above the shops. The vaulted cellars served as storage rooms and workshops for craftsmen. Other passages are nearby: Passage du Prado (10th arrondissement), Passage du Caire ( 2nd arrondissement ), Passage Bourg-l'Abbé (2nd arrondissement) and Passage du Grand-Cerf (2nd arrondissement).
Current condition
The quarter now has a high proportion of immigrants and in the passage, which has not been renovated for a long time and is therefore very shabby, there are almost exclusively Pakistani and Indian shops and restaurants, which have many tables in the passage. The glass roof is leaking and only poorly repaired; the floor, torn open many times, only has remnants of its original plaster. At the two entrances there are damaged and incomplete mosaics with the name of the passage on the floor . Owned by a community of owners that did not carry out any renovation work, the passage deteriorated more and more for years. Renovation work has been taking place since July 2013, aimed at improving the condition of the passage.
literature
- Jean-Claude Delorme / Anne-Marie Dubois: Passages couverts parisiens . Parigrams, Paris 2002 (1st edition Paris 1996), ISBN 2-84096-264-0 .
- Bertrand Lemoine : Les passages couvertes en France . Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-905118-21-0 .
In the movie
Roman Polański has a scene from his film Frantic (1987) set here.
Web links
- Passage Brady Description as Monument historique in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)