Raschplatzhochstrasse
The Raschplatzhochstraße in Hanover , also called Raschplatz-Hochstraße and Raschplatzhochbrücke , is an elevated road in the course of the so-called " Raschplatz - Tangente " and the inner city ring of the Lower Saxony state capital. The bridge for automobile traffic on the border of the Oststadt and Mitte districts connects Berliner Allee with Hamburger Allee and relieves traffic, especially at the intersection with Lister Meile .
description
The 17 meter wide reinforced concrete structure is 520 meters long and consists of two 110 meter long ramps and a 410 meter long bridge structure. Two lanes lead over the bridge in each direction, with around 30,000 vehicles (in 2004) in 24 hours, it is a part of the inner city ring that is heavily used in terms of traffic.
The elevated road was built in 1968 and 1969 and opened to traffic on July 30, 1970. Around the year 2000, discussions arose as to whether the bridge should be demolished. Instead of demolishing it for around 13 million euros, the city of Hanover had the bridge renovated between 2014 and 2015 for 3.5 million euros.
At the crossing of the Lister Meile, under the elevated road on a larger traffic island, there has been a construction trailer since 1988 , in which the Christian Addiction Aid New Land operates a contact café as a low-threshold contact point for drug addicts , the homeless and the needy. In 1995 three containers were added.
Arts
In 1991, the sculptor Andreas von Weizsäcker exhibited his sculpture Hangover under Hochstraße , which was initially only exhibited for a limited period and later on permanently. There are three car bodies hanging upside down and wrapped in paper. According to the city's cultural office, the sculpture looks like an ironic memorial to the concept of the car-friendly city that was implemented in Hanover.
In the run-up to the renovation of the dreary gray bridge structure carried out in 2014 and 2015 , the pop-art artist Andora opened his proposals to the city for a color redesign of the Raschplatzhochstraße with citizen participation into a colorful work of art in public space . The plans were not implemented due to security concerns and additional costs.
In 2021, the 10-day Theaterformen festival took place on Hochstrasse in conjunction with a city laboratory on climate justice . Due to the events, the road was closed to traffic for three weeks, which caused displeasure among motorists due to the resulting traffic jams.
Hangover sculpture from 1991 by the sculptor Andreas von Weizsäcker under the Hochstraße
Unrealized design by the artist Andora for the color redesign of the Raschplatzhochstrasse together with the VW Tower and the Lister Tor high-rise
Stage of the Theaterformen festival on Raschplatzhochstrasse, 2021
See also
literature
- Aufbaugemeinschaft Hannover eV (Ed.): Hannover-Oststadt - "the Raschplatztangente ". Contributions to the construction planning of the capital Hanover , edited by Konstanty Gutschow, Hanover: Madsack , 1951 (51 pages, with illustrations and graphic representations )
- Andora: Building a bridge for Hanover , presentation folder of the possible art bridge (approx. 20 pages) in a folder with clamp binder, [o. O., o. D.] last updated on October 10, 2014
Web links
- The art object. The Raschplatzhochstraße at hannover.de
- Günter Karsch: Ideas for the Raschplatz-Hochstraße , picture gallery with edited photos on the website of the Neue Presse (NP)
- Gunnar Gerold: Raschplatz-Hochstraße in Hanover at the end? in the NP of October 21, 2009
- Zoran Pantic: Hanover's OB candidate for Hochstraße in the NP from March 25, 2013;
- Zoran Pantic: Is Andora's Colorful Raschplatz Bridge Coming? in the NP of March 27, 2013
- The renovation of the Raschplatz-Hochstraße is getting closer and closer in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung ( HAZ ) on April 26, 2013
- Andreas Schinkel: Will the Raschplatz-Hochstraße be artistically illuminated soon? in the HAZ on May 20, 2013
- Christian Bohnenkamp: Redevelopment / Raschplatz-Hochstraße: The city shows its colors in the NP from May 28, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Eva Benz-Rababah : Raschplatz , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 514
- ↑ n.v . : The art object / Die Raschplatzhochstraße on the hannover.de page [undated], last accessed on July 12, 2021
- ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Raschplatz , in: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 185f. u.ö.
- ↑ Compare also one of the maps offered via the geographic coordinates in the top right corner of this article
- ↑ Printed matter No. 0551/2013: Renovation of the Raschplatzhochstraße near the city of Hanover from March 4, 2013
- ↑ Information printed matter No. 0676/2004: Demolition of the Raschplatz-Hochstraße near the city of Hanover from March 18, 2004
- ↑ Gunnar Menkens: "Kontaktcafé" moves a few meters further in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 11, 2018
- ↑ Veronika Thomas: The living room of the scene in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 22, 2013 (pdf)
- ↑ a b Zoran Pantic: Raschplatz-Hochstraße as an art bridge ? in the NP of March 25, 2013
- ↑ Volker Wiedersheim: Andora wants to mobilize Hanoverians in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 26, 2015
- ↑ Festival director on the closure of the Raschplatzbrücke: “I don't do this to provoke” in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from July 4, 2021
- ↑ This is how the city laboratory of theater forms will be published in Neue Presse from July 5, 2021
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 45.8 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 37 ″ E