Mira prospectus (Kaliningrad)

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Mira prospectus
coat of arms
Street in Kaliningrad
Mira prospectus
Mira prospectus
Basic data
place Kaliningrad
Created 1950
Hist. Names Hansaring, Hufenallee, Hammerweg
Cross streets ul. Kutuzova, ul. Tschapajewa, Kaschtanowaja Alleja, ul. Serhanta Koloskowa
Places pl. Pobedy
use
User groups Motor traffic , pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic
Road design 1950

The Prospekt Mira ( German : Prospect of Peace, Russian Проспект Мира ) is one of seven prospectuses and a four-lane street in Kaliningrad . It is about 5 km long.

history

The prospectus was to emerge in the 1950s as a homogeneous Stalinist parade street, which is why it was originally called Stalingradski prospect ( Russian Сталинградский проспект ). The city architect Dmitri Nawalichin elevated this splendid boulevard to the city's first-rate building task and designed the buildings there in the style of socialist classicism. After the Stalinist era , the avenue was renamed Prospekt Mira (Prospect of Peace).

course

The Prospect was actually the main street in Kaliningrad during the late Stalinist years. The street is based on the former Hufenallee and Hammerweg in Mittelhufen . It was outside the city wall north of Hufen and Amalienau and west of Vorderhufen .

The prospectus was created from the amalgamation of the Königsberger Hansaring from the district and regional court on Steindamm to the Neues Schauspielhaus with Hufenallee and Hammerweg. It leads from "Victory Square" to the west and ends at Khimitscheskaja ul. ( Russian Химическая ул. ).

Development

The above-average width of the street is a splendid boulevard, which is lined with high apartment blocks (up to five floors). The facades show ancient architectural details in many places, borrowed from the Doric or Ionic order. In addition to columns, ornamental gables with architraves and ornamented friezes should be mentioned.

building

House No. 33

The acute-angled corner house No. 33 on the corner of Soologitscheskaja uliza (Зоологическая ул., German Zoological Street) has five floors. The top floor consists of arcades. The facade shows two-storey colossal pilasters that support an entablature. Obelisks adorn the arcades. It was built according to plans by the architect Vladimir Atanov . In 1949 the house on Kaliningradskaya Pravda was still called "one of the greatest houses on Stalingrad Prospect". The building was later criticized by Nikita Sapriwodin. In an article in Kaliningradskaya Pravda of November 27, 1955, Sapriwodin described the Kaliningrad architect Atanov as a "colonnade-curlicue-architect":

“Criticism of the superfluous: Not rejecting the classic legacy - a colonnade and porticos, behind which the fourth floor of house No. 33 on Stalingrad Prospect is completely buried, he has gone his own way in architecture and has a divinely creative idea for the city dedicated - has put puny obelisks on the cornices of the house, which, with their cemetery look, evoke thoughts of the finiteness of earthly existence. "

Movie theater No. 41–43

The row of buildings no. 41–43 together with the adjoining Zarya (Заря, Eng. Dawn) movie theater should have a facade with columns and pilasters. However, this design was only implemented on the cinema building. The cinema building on the corner of uliza Kosmonawta Leonowa (ул. Космонавта Леонова, German Kosmonaut-Leonow-Straße) was built from the ruins of the Königsberg movie theater Scala .

  • Movie theater Zarya

  • Movie theater Zarya

  • Movie theater Zarya

House number 51

House no. 51 is "one of the most striking houses in Kaliningrad from this era to this day". The three storey house has two risalite sides . These have very wide pilasters at the corners , which encompass a high and narrow arched window. There are small obelisks on the pilasters . The shape and shape of the pilasters together with the arched windows are reminiscent of an ancient triumphal arch.

House number 87

The former Fishermen's Palace of Culture (today the Kaliningrad Oblast Music Theater) forms two narrow side wings towards the roadside. The three-storey facade is dominated by two colonnades made of Doric columns.

literature

  • Markus Podehl: Architektura Kaliningrada - How Kaliningrad became from Königsberg. (=  Materials on the art, culture and history of East Central Europe . Volume 1 ). Herder Institute, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87969-375-7 .
  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg: Architecture from German times. In the appendix: The Kneiphof . Booklet VII. The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .

Web links

Commons : Prospect Mira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise indicated, the section follows the work of Podehl, pp. 138–165: Am Stalingrader Prospect .
  2. ↑ Podehl, p. 129.
  3. ↑ Köster, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Podehl, p. 181.
  5. ↑ Podehl, p. 150, fig. 158, 160
  6. ↑ Podehl, p. 181.
  7. ↑ Podehl, p. 147, fig. 156, fig. 155–157.
  8. ↑ Podehl, p. 152f.
  9. ↑ Podehl, p. 141, fig. 150.
  10. ↑ Podehl, pp. 132-135.

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 22.4 "  N , 20 ° 27 ′ 36.6"  E