Ritterstrasse (Wesel)
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| Labor court on Ritterstrasse | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Wesel |
| District | Old town |
| Buildings | Municipal theater , Andreas-Vesalius-Gymnasium , city library , adult education center, Wesel Labor Court |
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| User groups | Motor vehicles (one-way), pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic |
The Knights Street is a downtown street of Wesel on the Lower Rhine.
location
The Ritterstrasse lies in the area of the medieval town center and runs for a length of around 200 meters in an east-west direction. It is a one-way street for car traffic; cyclists have been able to use it in both directions since 2010. It begins in the east as a continuation of the Flesgentor street, which branches off from Korbmacherstraße that runs through the center of the city . At its western end, it turns into Johannisstrasse at the edge of the Kornmarkt . The one-way street branches off here and continues south along the Kornmarkt. On the north side of Ritterstrasse and on the edge of Kornmarkt is the modern administration and education center with town hall, Wesel city library and the Wesel-Hamminkeln-Schermbeck adult education center . There is a passage to Fluthgrafstrasse for pedestrians and cyclists . The Ritterstraße is part of an inner ring road in contrast to the ring road around the city center. Ritterstraße is located in the north of the inner ring, but in its entirety it has no central function for inner-city traffic, also because it is designed as a one-way street in the area of Ritterstraße and the nearby Dimmerstraße and as a traffic-calmed area along the Berliner Tor . The central north-south axis from Kreuzstrasse and Korbmacherstrasse, which also connects the Ritterstrasse via the Flesgentor, is of greater importance in terms of traffic .
History and buildings
The center of medieval Wesel was on the Great Market , but the Kornmarkt was also important as another market square and location of the Wesel Ducal Castle , built in the 15th century . The castle was in the northeast of the Kornmarkt at the confluence of today's Ritterstrasse. Between today's Ritterstrasse and today's Torfstrasse there was another important medieval building, the Augustinian Monastery in Wesel , which from the 17th century onwards served various other purposes rather than religious. The name Ritterstraße was mentioned for the first time in 1630 and presumably refers to families living there who were descended from knights.
When Wesel became the administrative seat of the Prussian district Rees in 1842 , the district office and residence for district administrator Friedrich Heinrich von Bernuth were set up in the former Augustinian monastery . In 1869 the court building of the later Wesel District Court was built on Ritterstrasse . It was located between the junctions of Schmidtstrasse and Bierbrauerstrasse, was badly damaged in the war and was ready for occupancy again in 1950. In 1984 the district court moved to a building on Herzogenring, whereupon the building on Ritterstraße became the location of the Wesel Labor Court .
The renovation of the heavily damaged road surface on Ritterstraße after the Second World War was not carried out until the mid-1950s. As early as 1953, a new building for the municipal girls ' high school (Andreas Vesalius high school from 1984) was completed on Ritterstraße . In 1958, the Wesel Municipal Theater was opened right next to the school . It is a theater that is also used as the high school auditorium. In addition to the school and the theater, a building complex for administration and education was built from 1972 onwards at the western end of Ritterstraße. The town hall, which is not directly on Ritterstrasse, and the Wesel public library as well as the local adult education center belong to it. The building of the adult education center and the library is at Ritterstrasse 12-14 and faces the Kornmarkt. In addition to the educational institutions and the theater, there are still residential buildings on the south side of Ritterstrasse.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wesel: test run on Ritterstraße (rp-online.de)
- ↑ Concept for the development of the inner city of Wesel (wesel.de)
- ↑ Streets in Wesel - Letter R (wesel.de)
- ^ Opening of the district office in Wesel on December 1, 1842 (wesel.de)
- ↑ 07 August 1950 - Inauguration of the district court (wesel.de)
- ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 108f.
- ↑ School history - in detail (avg-wesel.de)
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 30.3 " N , 6 ° 36 ′ 46.7" E