Portsmouth Square

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Portsmouth Square
City coat of arms of the city of Duisburg.svg
Place in Duisburg
Portsmouth Square
Basic data
place Duisburg
District Dellviertel
Created 1934
Newly designed 2016
Confluent streets Mercatorstrasse, Friedrich-Wilhelmstrasse, Harry-Epstein-Platz, Wuhanstrasse
use
User groups Foot traffic
Technical specifications
Square area approx. 12,000 m²
building-costs approx. 8 million euros

The Portsmouth Square is a 12,000 square meter space in Duisburg . It is the forecourt of Duisburg Central Station and named after the English twin city of Portsmouth .

history

The station forecourt was built between 1931 and 1934 as part of the new construction of Duisburg Central Station. When the new train station went into operation, the trams coming from Düsseldorf and the south of the city were given a new underground terminus in front of the train station and below the current square. Stairs led the passengers to the station entrance.

On April 24, 1955, the city began construction of the first German city ​​motorway , which, after its completion in May 1957, led under the station plate. The tram was moved to Mercatorstrasse, which runs parallel to the forecourt.

In memory of one of the first German- British town twinning , the square was given its current name in 1982.

In the course of the widening of the federal highway 59 , the city ​​highway called the north-south road for a long time after its construction , the square got its current size: the expanded highway was covered in autumn 2010 with a 3000 m² station plate.

In 2013, the redesign of the square was discussed in the Charrette process . The station forecourt is to get a facelift by September 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.radioduisburg.de/interaktiv/strassennamen.html Radio Duisburg - street names series, accessed on June 18, 2016
  2. ^ The Duisburg tram, Sutton Verlag, Erfurt, 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/thema/bahnhofsplatte-duisburg Der Westen - Bahnhofsplatte Duisburg, accessed on June 18, 2016
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bahnhofsplatz Duisburg - Citizens design their Bahnhofsplatz, accessed on June 18, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duisburg.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 48 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 22.8"  E