Alley of lawn
| Alley of lawn Fürstenallee
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| Basic data | |
| place | Kassel, Ahnatal, Calden |
| District | Kassel: Bad Wilhelmshöhe , Kirchditmold , Harleshausen Ahnatal: Heckershausen , Weimar Calden: Wilhelmsthal |
| Created | 1797 |
| Newly designed | 2011 (in sections) |
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| User groups | Motor traffic , public transport , bicycle traffic , pedestrian traffic |
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| Street length | 8.2 km |
The Rasenallee is an approximately 8.2 km long main road in the urban district of Kassel and in the municipalities of Ahnatal and Calden in northern Hesse ( Germany ) in the Kassel district . It is a section of the national road 3217 and is mostly straight.
The road was laid out in 1797 for Landgrave Wilhelm IX. and aristocratic riders as a link between Wilhelmshöhe Castle (Kassel) and Wilhelmsthal Castle (Calden). Until well into the 20th century, this historical connection was called “Fürstenallee”.
course
The lawn avenue, which is part of the L 3217, begins ( ⊙ ) on the eastern flank of the Hohen Habichtswald , in the Habichtswald Nature Park and on the border of the western Kassel districts of Bad Wilhelmshöhe in the south and Kirchditmold in the north. At the beginning of road in the curve at the end of the from the direction of the mountain park height standing lock Wilhelm height coming, winding extending and Wilhelm Allee via conductive tulips Allee branches to about 273 m above sea level. NHN Höhe the Nussallee to the east, which passes the Waldschule Kassel near the Rasenallee. The Bergparkweg Eichenallee branches off to the west at an altitude of 293 m . On some maps, this is the beginning of the lawn avenue.
From there, the lawn avenue leads in sections to the Habichtswald Nature Park or partly on its eastern border to the north. On the first 800 m it forms part of the border of wooded areas of the districts of Kirchditmold in the east and Harleshausen in the west and crosses a 315.2 m high point. From the small road bridge ( 302 m ) over the Geilebach tributary Todenhäuser Graben (Angersbach) , the road runs through the Harleshausen area. A little after crossing ( 292.6 m ) the Ahnatalstraße , it crosses the upper course of the Ahne tributary Geilebach near the source and shortly afterwards crosses ( 291.6 m ) in the forest near the Firnskuppe ( 313.9 m ) the federal highway 251 (Wolfhager Straße) ).
Then the lawn avenue changes from Kasseler to the Ahnatal area. Shortly afterwards it crosses under the Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar ( 239 m ) railway line , where it finally leaves the Habichtswald Nature Park. Thereafter, the merging district roads 30 (Heckershäuser Strasse) cross in the west and 31 (Hauptstrasse) in the east, which connect the Ahnatal districts of Weimar (west of the avenue) and Heckershausen (east of the avenue). Then the Rasenallee crosses the Ahne - at its lowest street point at about 224 m - and a little north of this Fulda tributary a small connecting road (Magdeburger Straße – Bruchstraße), which connects the two Ahnataler districts.
Shortly after the end of a winding section of the Rasenallee and its change from Ahnataler to Caldener area, its highest point of the road is located in the forest area west of the Staufenberg ( 361.2 m ), which belongs to the avenue near Vellmar, at about 323 m .
The lawn avenue ends ( ⊙ ) east of the Wilhelmsthal Castle Hotel at the southern edge of the Wilhelmsthal Castle Park . At the junction there, the L 3217, which bends roughly at a right angle and which is called Buchenallee there, continues eastwards to the federal highways B 7 and B 83 and thus in the direction of Espenau , to Kreisstraße 46, which passes the castle hotel and castle park with castle to the nearby Caldener Kernort runs.
history
Avenue for aristocratic riders
The lawn avenue was built in 1797 for Landgrave Wilhelm IX. and aristocratic riders as part of the connection between Wilhelmshöhe Castle and Wilhelmsthal Castle.
In December 1949, five lumberjacks from the Kellerwald approached with chainsaws and axes and turned the lawn avenue into a bare second-order country road. Up until then, and for more than 100 years, over 300 poplars had shaped the landscape above Harleshausen. The proud giant trees served the thieving magpies , which had already become a nuisance, as a nesting place and the residents as natural lightning rods during thunderstorms. In fact, one poplar after another fell victim to lightning and storms. Clear cutting did the rotten rest . The poplars originated from the time of the elector, when the avenue was a lawn in many places. Light carriages in summer and sleighs in winter drove through fields and forests, through valleys and over heights.
In an address book from 1919, the lawn avenue is referred to as part of what is now the Kassel district of Oberzwehren, which leads to the Fürstenallee leading to Wilhelmsthal. This did not start at the end of Tuplenallee, but further west at the Dönche . New plantings followed in March 1950 - this time sycamore . It was only after the lawn had long since been replaced by asphalt that the name Rasenallee officially prevailed over the name Fürstenallee in the early 1970s.
Long private route
Although the lawn was replaced by gravel and gravel in the 19th century and later by asphalt, the lawn avenue was still closed to motor vehicles and thus to the common people until after the First World War. The prohibition signs on the trees originated from the days when Kaiser Wilhelm II used to ride his horse from Wilhelmshöhe Palace to Wilhelmsthal Palace in the summer on horseback.
And even those who drive motorized along the route that was expanded in the 1960s and freed from some sharp bends can enjoy princely panoramic views of Kassel. In autumn 2011 the lawn avenue was extensively renovated together with the tulip avenue.
Youth home on Rasenallee
The Rasenallee has not only experienced aristocratic riders, it has also experienced a small revolution: in 1978, girls moved into the youth hostel of the city of Kassel, which was built in 1950 for homeless and parentless apprentices on Rasenallee. Girls and boys under one roof, under which apprentices should be educated to be “capable men full of character”. In 1995 the young people were distributed to other institutions in the city. The house on Rasenallee currently houses the Kassel Montessori School.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c Topographic map Stadtatlas Kassel ( M. = 1: 10,000), Ed .: Stadt Kassel, Vermessung und Geoinformation, 2009
- ↑ Topographic map: Kassel - Official city map ( M. = 1: 20,000), publisher : Stadt Kassel, Vermessung und Geoinformation, 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 10.6 " N , 9 ° 24 ′ 58.6" E