Friedrich-Ebert-Platz (Nuremberg)

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The Friedrich-Ebert-Platz is a traffic junction in Nuremberg . It is named after the first Reich President of the Weimar Republic , Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925).

location

The square is located at the confluence of Kirchenweg, Rückertstraße, Archivstraße and Schweppermannstraße in Bucher Straße in the gardens of Nuremberg behind the fortress . It has an approximately triangular basic shape.

history

View to the west, Art Nouveau house between the junction of Kirchenweg and Rückertstraße, in front of it an exit structure to the subway station.

Since there was a group of seven crosses and a column of torture at this location, the area has been called “Among the seven crosses” since the Middle Ages. Between 1817 and 1821 Georg Zacharias Platner had a public park built in the English style here, which was connected to his private garden to the south and was named Platnersanlage after its founder . The largest area of ​​this green area stretched between Bucher Strasse in the west, Kobergerstrasse in the north, Pilotystrasse in the east and Pirckheimerstrasse in the south.

West of Bucher Strasse was a triangular area that is roughly congruent with today's Friedrich-Ebert-Platz, part of the park. In 1885 a monument was erected for Platner, which is no longer preserved today. A large part of the green areas fell victim to urban development over the course of time.

The square on an important access road from the north has a sub-central function for the districts of St. Johannis (west of it) and gardens hdV (or Nordstadt, east of it). In local public transport, it functions as a node. The tram lines used to cross in the north-south direction (Bucher Straße) and in the east-west direction (Pirckheimer Straße / Kirchenweg). In addition, the overland bus routes to Erlangen began and ended here from the 1930s to 1960s. The branch in the Kirchenweg has been dismantled and is no longer passable. The east-west relationship was resumed at the end of 2011 when the U 3 underground line was extended.

In 1954, the square in honor of the first Reich President of the Weimar Republic in was Friedrich-Ebert -Platz renamed. A plaque commemorates Platner in Bucher Strasse, where the house where he was born, and the Platnersanlage restaurant on the north side of the square. Since the early 1960s, the green areas of the square have been gradually reduced in size in favor of road traffic, so that in the end only residual green areas were left.

In the course of the underground construction , the surface of the square was completely redesigned. The redesign has met with broad criticism because of the still small amount of green space and the voluminous underground entrances and other sub-architectures (for more information, see the article on Friedrich-Ebert-Platz underground station ).

traffic

Friedrich-Ebert-Platz is on Bucher Strasse, which, as B 4 / Erlanger Strasse, connects Nuremberg city center with Erlangen .

The square is served by tram line  4, bus line  34 and, since December 10, 2011, by underground line U3. The tram line 9, which had previously also crossed there, was closed when the subway started operating despite considerable public protests. The junction through Kirchenweg, which was formerly used by lines 4 and 14, was cut off in the course of the construction of the underground and is no longer accessible.

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich-Ebert-Platz (Nuremberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article "The" seven crosses "at Friedrich-Ebert-Platz" at http://www.suehnekreuz.de/, accessed on January 29, 2010
  2. ↑ "Horribly adolescent" in Nürnberger Stadtanzeiger from April 20, 2011
  3. ↑ Joachim Thiel: "The unsuccessful redesign of Friedrich-Ebert-Platz - a wasted opportunity for Sankt Johannis and gardens hdV" in the bulletin of the Bürgererverein St. Johannis 69/2011, there pp. 27-29.
  4. ↑ "... inside hui, outside ugh" (comment) in Nürnberger Stadtanzeiger from September 1, 2010
  5. ↑ "'Monstrous Access' in front of the Art Nouveau House" in the Nürnberger Stadtanzeiger from April 16, 2009

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '45.4 "  N , 11 ° 4' 15.9"  E