Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Dresden)
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 Space during construction (August 2015) |
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| place | Dresden |
| District | Inner New Town |
| Created | 1877 |
| Hist. Names | Kurfürstenplatz, Skagerrakplatz, Köbisplatz |
| Confluent streets | Wigardstrasse , Glacisstrasse , Hoyerswerdaer Strasse , Carusufer , Albertbrücke |
| Buildings | Albert Bridge |
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| User groups | Pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, public transport |
| Space design | Rosa Luxemburg Monument |
The Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Dresden is the forecourt of the Albert Bridge on the Neustadt side of the Elbe. It is part of the 26 ring .
Geographical location
At Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, the flood-proof street near the Elbe, consisting of the eastern Carusufer and western Wigardstrasse (to Carolaplatz ), meets Glacisstrasse , which directs traffic from Albertplatz to Albertbrücke, and the neighboring Hoyerswerdaer Strasse . The latter is only accessible as a one-way street for motorized individual traffic in the north (leading away from Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz) towards Bautzner Straße .
Tram lines 6 and 13 run across the square and Albertbrücke between Neustadt ( Bautzner / Rothenburger Str. Stop ) and Johannstadt ( Sachsenallee stop at Sachsenplatz ). The Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz stop is at the southern end of Hoyerswerdaer Straße.
At the western edge of the square, a restricted road leads down to the banks of the Elbe, which connects the square with the Elbe Cycle Path and also serves as access for transport vehicles to the Elbe meadows on the Neustadt bank of the Elbe and for the nearby film nights on the banks of the Elbe .
To the east of Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz lies the rose garden on the banks of the Carus , and to the west is a wood with the perennial garden .
history
With the relocation of the military from the fortified Neustadt to Albertstadt in the last third of the 19th century, new building sites were created. At the same time there was an improvement in traffic between the two sides of the Elbe through the construction of the Albert Bridge and a little later the Carolabrücke . Kurfürstenplatz was laid out in 1877 as an extension of Kurfürstenstraße (today's Hoyerswerdaer Straße), which was laid out in 1873 . The name was used in memory of the former Electors of Saxony .
The square was named Skagerrakplatz in May 1936, 20 years after the Battle of the Skagerrak . After the Second World War , the name was changed to Köbisplatz in 1945 , and the name was given by the imperial marine Albin Köbis , who was executed for mutiny . At that time the Carusufer was called Reichpietschufer after Köbis co-defendant Max Reichpietsch .
In the early days of Dresden tram traffic , when there were two competing companies, tracks were laid through Glacis and Hoyerswerdaer Strasse. Due to a lack of material, the route through Glacisstraße was abandoned in January 1948, a junction from Bautzner into Hoyerswerdaer Straße restored the connection on an only slightly longer route.
Street Art : In 2014 a portrait of Edward Snowden printed on paper was attached. Shortly after it was torn down, it read: "Here was a hero".
In October 1991, the city council of Dresden gave the square its current name after the communist politician Rosa Luxemburg , who, among other things, worked briefly as editor-in-chief of the Saxon workers' newspaper in Dresden after the previous Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse in the baroque Königstrasse district returned to its old name Heinrichstrasse received. At the crossing to the Albertbrücke, Luxemburg was erected a monument, about a meter away from her famous sentence " Freedom is always freedom of those who think differently " is placed in a railing.
In the summer of 2014, the redesign of the square began as part of the renovation of the Albert Bridge , which was completed in September 2016 , in order to create a suitable connection to the bridge, which was widened by 3.60 meters. In this context, the previous road connection from Carusufer to Wigardstrasse was no longer applicable.
Footnotes
- ^ Adolf Hantzsch : Name book of the streets and squares of Dresden (= messages of the Society for the History of Dresden . No. 17, 18 ). Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1905, p. 80 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ There is a track leading nowhere - disused tram lines in Neustadt. In: Dresden Neustadt Online. August 2005, accessed January 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Rehabilitation of the Albert Bridge. Expansion of the Albertbrücke with the adjacent Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and Sachsenplatz. Road and Civil Engineering Office, City of Dresden, June 16, 2014, archived from the original on February 10, 2016 ; accessed on February 7, 2016 .
Web links
- Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in the Stadtwiki Dresden
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 31.3 " N , 13 ° 45 ′ 10.5" E