Ritter-Raschen-Platz

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Ritter-Raschen-Platz
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Basic data
city Bremen
district Walle
Confluent streets Waller Heerstrasse , Ritter-Raschen-Strasse, Langeooger-Strasse, Stiftstrasse, Apenrader-Strasse, Dünenstrasse, Travemünder-Strasse
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User groups Road traffic, tram, pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic

The Ritter-Raschen-Platz is a historic, small green square in Bremen in the Walle district .

Surname

The square is named after the knight , officer and diplomat Christoph Ludwig Raschen (1584–1645), who was Swedish resident from 1633 to 1635 and authorized minister in Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck and in the Lower Saxony district . In 1635 he leased the Walle estate. He was buried in 1645 next to the Waller Church , to which he donated the money to build the brick tower.

The streets on the square were named Waller Heerstraße after the Walle district and this after a courtyard in Walle, Ritter-Raschen-Straße (see above), Langeooger-Straße after the island of Langeoog , Stiftstraße and Almatastraße in memory of the Almatastift from 1892 (Almata Reismann), Apenrader-Straße to the Danish town of Aabenraa , Dünenstraße to the dunes and Travemünder-Straße to the Lübeck-Travemünde district .

history

The village of Walle was first mentioned in 1139. During the French period in Bremen from 1806 to 1814, the path leading past was turned into a military road. With the construction of the ports from 1885 to 1914, the settlement of industrial companies took place. A denser development with rental houses for the workers was built on Waller Heerstraße and on the square. In the air raids on Bremen in 1944 around 25,000 apartments were destroyed in Walle. A swift reconstruction took place in the 1950s to 1970s. The triangular square was greened. In 2002 the southern part of Waller Heerstraße became a redevelopment area .

Buildings in place

  • Ritter-Raschen-Platz No. 1 to 3: 2-sch. Residential houses from after 1960.
  • Ritter-Raschen-Platz No. 4 to 8: 3-sch. plastered houses from after 1960.
  • Ritter-Raschen-Platz No. 10: 2/3 shed. House with clinker brick facade from the 1920s.
  • Waller Heerstraße No. 184ff: 2/3 gesch. Group of houses with clinker brick facade from the 1920s.
  • Waller Heerstrasse No. 197: 2-gesch. Building as a Protestant regional church community center in Walle .
  • Dünenstrasse No. 2/4: 3-storey. modern facility as the house of the Walle family in the social center Gröpelingen / Walle for family counseling and u. a. for single mothers.
  • Travemünder Strasse No. 1: 4-storey. modern residential building.

Art objects, memorials

  • War memorial 1870/71, erected in 1872 on the Waller Friedhof and moved to Ritter-Raschen-Platz in 1899.
  • The colorful child-friendly ceramic sculpture Ritter Rasch in front of the Kinderhaus Schnecke and the Waller Church on the Lange Reihe by Lutz Weißig was created in 2017 in the sculpture workshop of the Oslebshausen correctional facility (JVA) and commemorates Ritter Raschen and his donated church tower.
  • Horse Fountain IV from 1977, since 2006 on the Waller village square on Stiftstrasse, corner of Achternbergstrasse by Gerhard Lange,

traffic

In 1879 the Great Bremen Horse Railway opened the second horse railway line from Hastedt to Walle, the main features of which still exist today. From 1899 the electrified tram ran from Bremen to Walle-Bogenstraße. In 1908 the line numbers 1 to 8 were introduced.

Tram lines 2 (Gröpelingen - Domsheide - Sebaldsbrück ) and, since 1939, line 10 (Gröpelingen - Hauptbahnhof - Sebaldsbrück) pass the square in local traffic in Bremen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Gerling: Everyone loves Ritter Rasch . In: Weser-Kurier from September 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  3. ↑ BSAG : Chronology

Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 55 ″  E