Philippsruher Allee

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Philippsruher Allee - at the end of the axis the Philippsruhe Castle , on the right the tower of the Friedenskirche

The Philippsruher Allee is a baroque Avenue axis , the historic town of Hanau in the state of Hesse in the west straight to the castle Philippsruhe combines and simultaneously connect to Maintal and Frankfurt manufactures.

history

The Philippsruher Allee was laid out from 1716. In addition to its traffic function, it was also laid out as part of the palace ensemble: It leads over approx. 1.5 km directly to the central projections of the palace and thus emphasizes the main axis of the palace complex in a baroque manner. The palace and avenue bear the name of Count Philipp Reinhard von Hanau-Münzenberg .

In order to be able to take this course, the route of the avenue cut tangentially the right bank of the Main , which flows here in a wide left curve and washed out the bank area. The road therefore had to be laid on a dam that narrowed the river at this point. The dam also acted, albeit limited, as flood protection for the area behind and prevented further erosion there . This interference in the river led to protests from the Kurmainz opposite the county of Hanau here on the other bank of the river . This delayed the construction work. The avenue could only be opened in 1767 under the government of Hereditary Prince Wilhelm IX./I. to be completed by Hessen-Kassel.

Course and buildings

The Philippsruher Allee starts at the Kanaltorplatz and aims to the west, directly at the central projections of the Philippsruhe Palace, about 1.5 km away . Today it first crosses under the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line . In 1854, when the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway was extended to the Bavarian border and on to Aschaffenburg , it was still a level crossing . Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I (Hessen-Kassel) , always looking for money, expected the bank Bernus du Fay, which was financing the expansion of the railway in the direction of Aschaffenburg, to pay bribes in the amount of money, arguing that this would disrupt the avenue leading to his castle of 100,000 thalers . His leading minister, Ludwig Hassenpflug , then offered to resign, but the elector refused to resign.

In the 1960s, the level crossing was replaced by an underpass. The Hanau West stop is now on the crossing bridge . In the further course the avenue crosses the Heller bridge and then with two bridges the flood ditches of the Kinzig . The latter are cultural monuments .

Heller Bridge

The most important bridge in the course of the avenue is the Hellerbrücke , a passage for the Kinzig, which, after crossing under the street, flows into the Main a few meters later. The Hellerbrücke takes its name from a bridge toll that was previously levied there. The historic three-arched structure was demolished in 1992 to widen the roadway and replaced by a modern, if pleasantly clad, concrete structure.

Water tower

Water tower

The historicist , 42-meter-high water tower in pseudo-Tuscan style, a building clad with colored, mainly yellow bricks, is now functionless and without any interior equipment. It was built around 1878 when the Landgrave of Hesse was awarded the Philippsruhe Palace after the settlement between the House of Hesse and Prussia and upgraded it to meet the standard of living required at the time. For the park of Philippsruhe Palace, the water tower generated the necessary water pressure for the fountain. It was used until the Second World War , as there were concerns about whether the castle's pipeline network would have withstood the higher water pressure of the city's water network. The water tower is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act and part of the Route of Industrial Culture Rhine-Main .

Olof Palme House

Today's Olof-Palme-Haus, formerly: Westerfeldsche Villa, goes back to an estate at the gates of the city of Hanau, while the building stock that still exists today is partly from the time after the Thirty Years' War . In 1857 it was acquired by Georg Christ, a merchant who emigrated to America, got rich there and returned to Hanau. He had it converted into a house with a covered veranda in front, which exudes a touch of a southern villa.

The property is assigned to Pfarrer-Hufnagel-Straße in the land registry. In terms of its orientation, however, it belongs to Philippsruher Allee. Today it is used as a meeting place and bears the name Olof-Palme-Haus .

Friedenskirche

In its further course, the avenue reaches the former village of Kesselstadt, which was incorporated into Hanau in 1907 . Its historic center was close to the Main, as was its neo-Gothic , Protestant Church of Peace , see there .

Other cultural monuments

  • A historicist villa in neo -Gothic and neo-Renaissance style , the "Villa Louisita", is located on the property at Philippsruher Allee 26. It was built in 1875 for August Limbert, a banker who emigrated to America, got rich there and returned to Hanau, and the following two Expanded several times over the decades by extensions.
  • The building of the former Geibel School with a tower for drying the hoses of the Kesselstadt volunteer fire brigade and a "garage" for the hearse dates back to 1905. Today, a Waldorf kindergarten is located there . The historicist building is set back a little from Philippsruher Allee.
  • Historic Gasthaus Zum Schwanen , a half-timbered building with 10 window axes and a ground floor made of sandstone masonry, built in 1788, is located at Philippsruher Allee 50 and is still operated as a restaurant today. The swan was the heraldic animal of the County of Hanau .

meaning

Hanau West train station at the eastern end of Philippsruher Allee

Philippsruher Allee is now an inner-city street between Hanau and Kesselstadt . In its further course, after bypassing the Philippsruhe Castle - it is then already called Landstrasse - it offers a connection to Maintal and Frankfurt.

The avenue was first rebuilt in the 1990s and then redesigned again, provided with flower borders and upgraded overall as part of the Hessian State Garden Show in Hanau in 2002.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Ham: Ludwig Hassenpflug: statesman and lawyer between revolution and reaction. A political biography = studies on historical research in modern times 50. Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-8300-2764-5 , pp. 385f.
  2. ↑ City of Hanau: Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. Hanau I . = Local route guide 10. Frankfurt 2006.
  3. ↑ Krumm, p. 497.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 46.1 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 1.5 ″  E