Quai Branly
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 18' E
| Quai Branly | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 7th , 15th |
| quarter | Gros-Caillou Grenelle |
| Beginning | Pont de l'Alma and Place de la Résistance |
| The End | Place des Martyrs-Juifs-du-Vélodrome-d'Hiver |
| morphology | |
| length | 1360 m |
| width | 16 to 61 m |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 1265 |
The Quai Branly [ kɛbrɑ̃'li ] is a street on the banks of the Seine in the 7th and 15th arrondissements of the French capital Paris . It is part of the Quais de Paris on the left bank of the river, the Rive gauche . Among other things, the Eiffel Tower is located on it .
location
The Quai Branly is 1360 m long and 61 m wide. It leads on the left bank of the Seine from the Place de la Résistance at the Pont de l'Alma bridge, first in a westerly, then south-westerly direction to the Place des Martyrs Juifs du Vélodrome d'Hiver at the Pont de Bir-Hakeim bridge . Two more bridges branch off from it between these endpoints, namely the Passerelle Debilly pedestrian bridge and the Pont d'Iéna road bridge connecting the Eiffel Tower with the Jardins du Trocadéro park . Most of the street is in the 7th arrondissement ; only the westernmost piece from the confluence with Avenue de Suffren belongs to the 15th arrondissement .
In the east (upstream) the Quai Branly is continued through the Quai d'Orsay , in the west through the Quai de Grenelle .
Buildings
In addition to the dominating Eiffel Tower , there are a number of other important buildings on Quai Branly . In particular, the Musée du quai Branly has been located there since the beginning of the 21st century , a museum for non-European art established by President Jacques Chirac .
At the eastern end of Quai Branly , Russia, under its President Vladimir Putin, had the monumental Trinity Cathedral built in Paris from 2013 to 2016 after the Russian state bought the property from France during Nicolas Sarkozy's tenure as French President. The Météo-France weather service had previously been located at the site . The striking sacred structure with five gold-plated onion domes and the complex of four buildings to which it belongs and which also houses a Russian Orthodox cultural center are considered to be a symbol of Russia's claim to power in Europe and in particular over the Christian Orthodox religious minority in France and are therefore politically controversial .
Between the cathedral and the Musée du quai Branly , like the Orthodox cathedral, in close proximity to the Pont de l'Alma , is the Palais de l'Alma , built in 1861 .
The now purely underground station Champ de Mars – Tour Eiffel is located under the Quai Branly between the Eiffel Tower and Bir-Hakeim Bridge. At the time of its greatest expansion at the beginning of the 20th century , the track areas of the station were much more extensive, and tracks crossed under the Quai Branly at about the level of today's Rue Jean Rey . This was only created in 1937 after the station was dismantled.
At the western end of the Quai Branly, opposite the Pont de Bir-Hakeim , the Japanese cultural center Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris has been located since 1997 at the confluence of the Rue de la Fédération with the Quai (since 1999 Place de Kyoto ) .
History and naming
The eastern section of today's Quai Branly between Pont de l'Alma and Pont d'Iéna was created by decree of March 11, 1808, the one between Avenue de Suffren (west of Pont d'Iéna ) and Pont de Bir-Hakeim was designed late 19th century, when the world Expo 1900 the station Champ de Mars was greatly enlarged.
The street bears its current name by resolution of January 30, 1941. It is named after the physicist Édouard Branly (1844–1940), one of the pioneers of radio technology . Before it was named after Branly, the street had been part of the Quai d'Orsay .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Quai Branly. City of Paris ( Mairie de Paris ), accessed on July 22, 2018 (French, information on the location, length, history and naming of the street).
- ↑ Michaela Wiegel: Saint Vladimir on the Seine. In: faz.net . October 11, 2016, accessed July 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Palais de l'Alma in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Rue Jean Rey. City of Paris ( Mairie de Paris ), accessed on July 22, 2018 (French, information on the location, length, history and naming of the street).
- ^ Place de Kyoto. City of Paris ( Mairie de Paris ), accessed on July 27, 2018 (French, information on the location, length, history and naming of the square).
- ↑ Historique de la MCJP. In: mcjp.fr. Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris , accessed on July 22, 2018 (French).