Rickmersstrasse

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Rickmersstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremerhaven
Basic data
city Bremerhaven
district Lehe (Bremerhaven)
Newly designed 1897, 1952
Cross streets Stormstr., Jahnstr., Fritz-Reuter-Str., Potsdamer Str., Goethestr., Körnerstr., Van-Heukelum-Str., Pestalozzistraße , Am Eck, Möwenstr., Seestr., Muschelstr., Hansastr., Franziusstr.
Buildings Cinema Aladin
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 1300 meters
Cinema Aladin
Customs office Rotersand
Red sand barracks , today havenhostel
Neighboring residential complex Spar- und Bauverein Lehe

The Rickmersstraße is a historical street in Bremerhaven , district Lehe . It runs as a commercial street in an east-west direction from Hafenstrasse to Barkhausenstrasse / Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse .

The cross streets and connecting streets were named Stormstraße after the writer and poet Theodor Storm , Jahnstraße after the gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , Fritz-Reuter-Straße after the poet and writer Fritz Reuter , Potsdamer Straße, Goethestraße after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Körnerstraße after the Poet Theodor Körner , Van-Heukelum-Straße after the Lord Mayor of Bremerhaven and Bremen Senator Gerhard van Heukelum (SPD), Pestalozzistraße after the pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , Am Eck, Möwen-, See- und Muschelstraße after sea motifs, Hansastraße after the Hanseatic League , where Bremen has been since the 12th century, Franziusstraße after the hydraulic engineer Ludwig Franzius and Barkhausenstraße after the Bremen mayor Carl Georg Barkhausen (1848–1917); otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Rickmersstraße was named after the Bremen shipping family ( Rickmer Clasen Rickmers , Andreas Rickmers , Wilhelm Rickmers , Paul Rickmers , Robert Rickmers ) and their Rickmers shipping company . Previously it was partly called Zollstrasse because of the customs station there.

development

In 1827, with the founding of Bremerhaven, Lehes ascent began. The core of Lehe was from around 1880 at the junction of Hafenstrasse / Rickmersstrasse. Hafenstrasse and Rickmersstrasse were expanded in 1887 and 1897, respectively. Since the road led to the imperial ports , there were many pubs and restaurants with a harbor ambience as well as the red light district here and on the side streets. The legendary jazz club Chico's Place , named after its owner, which opened in 1958 , had no chance of survival during the renovations in the street; after a long period of vacancy, the building had to give way to a new building.

After the Second World War , the city center was largely destroyed and the business, leisure and entertainment center of Bremerhaven was in Hafenstrasse and Rickmersstrasse. There were six to seven cinemas here in the 1950s and 1960s. The Aladin cinema was built in 1956. Today the street has become much quieter.

traffic

There has been a horse-drawn tram in Lehe since 1881 . From 1898 to 1908 it was converted into an electric tram company with up to five lines.
In 1952 the expansion of Rickmersstrasse was completed. From 1960 to 1982 the tram ran with lines 2 ( Geestemünde - Bus depot Langen) and 3 (Hauptbahnhof - Rotersand - Rickmersstraße - Lehe train station ) through Lange Straße and Nordstraße; the latter only until 1964.

Today (2018) the bus lines 502 ( Grünhöfe - Hauptbahnhof - Stadtmitte - Lehe - Leherheide West), 505 ( Wulsdorf - Hauptbahnhof - Rotersand - Stadtmitte - Langen - Debstedt ), 506 (Wulsdorf - Hauptbahnhof - Stadtmitte - Rotersand - Langen) and 511 (express bus: Leherheide Ost - Rotersand - Stadtmitte - Wulsdorf, Bohmsiel) of the BremerhavenBus of the Bremerhaven AG (VGB) transport company.

Buildings and facilities

There are mainly three to five-story buildings on the street.

Architectural monuments

  • No. 11/13: 1- and 2-layered Cinema Aladin built from 1955 to 1956 according to plans by Heinz Feuerhack for the film salesman Günter Hansel. The upper floor with the cinema appears with the curvature of the projection screen as a windowless bay window from the facade. The former inner passage was arranged at right angles to the course of Rickmersstrasse and its shop windows.
  • Franziusstraße No. 1 / corner of Rickmersstraße: 2-storey, representative, red-stone-sighted customs office Rotersand from 1936 with a semicircular formation of a bay window and large imperial eagle made of ceramic according to plans by Nils Aschenbeck and Dirk J. Peters, as the main entrance to the Kaiserhafen in connection with the alignment built for the 1936 Olympic Games .
  • Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße No. 217 / corner Rickmersstraße: 4-gesch. and 5-sch. Plastered barracks Roter Sand with a two-storey vestibule built for the Bremen police according to plans by Hans Ohnesorge , Gustav Ulrich and the Bremen Building Department . From the 1950s location of the German Navy and since 2010 havenhostel Bremerhaven with over 200 beds.
  • Fritz-Reuter-Straße No. 42 to 61, Bütteler Straße, Batteriestraße and Potsdamer Straße: 4- to 5-storey, brick-built residential complexes with 122 apartments from 1927 to 1929 according to plans by Ernst Cappelmann in the style of conservative modernism in the interwar period for u. a. established the non-profit savings and construction association Lehe .

Notable buildings

  • No. 1 / corner of Hafenstraße: 3-storey. Department store, formerly Merkur department store of Horten AG .
  • No. 2A: 2-sch. Störtebecker restaurant.
  • No. 4: 2-sch. Residential and restaurant house.
  • No. 24/26: 3-ply Turn-of-the-century residential and commercial building.
  • No. 27: 4-sch. Turn-of-the-century residential and commercial building.
  • No. 30: 3-sch. Turn-of-the-century residential and commercial building.
  • No. 35: 5-sch. Turn-of-the-century residential and commercial building with Art Nouveau elements and a restaurant.
  • No. 62: 3-sch. Turn-of-the-century residential and commercial building.
  • Between No. 87 to 109: District sports facility Pestalozzistraße (including FC Sparta Bremerhaven , formerly also Bremerhaven 93 )
  • No. 90: 4-sch. New construction of the Bremerhaven tax office.
  • Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße 209 / corner Rickmersstraße: 5-gesch. Turn-of-the-century residential and commercial building with several gables and bay windows.

Memorial stones

literature

  • Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991 . Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
  • Wolfgang Brönner: Bremerhaven. Architectural monuments of a port city. Bremen 1976.
  • Werner Kirschstein: Seaside City of Bremerhaven . Historic buildings of a port city. Bremerhaven 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chicos Place was opened on April 1st, 1958 in Bremerhaven.
  2. ↑ Ausgejazzt: "Chico's Place" has to go, articles in the NWZ on 7 August 2014
  3. ^ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven route networks. Retrieved April 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen: 1769
  5. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen: 3025
  6. ^ Monument database of the LfD Bremen: 3039
  7. ^ Monument database of the LfD Bremen: 3069

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 38 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 34"  E