Rue Saint-Denis

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Rue Saint-Denis
location
Arrondissement 1.
2.
quarter Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois
Halles
Bonne-Nouvelle
Beginning 12, avenue Victoria
The End 1, Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle and 19, Boulevard Saint-Denis
morphology
length 1334 m
width between rue de Rivoli and rue des Innocents : 16.30 m between rue des Innocents and Boulevard Saint-Denis: 13 m
history
Hist. Names Route de Saint-Denis
Rue de Franciade
Coding
Paris 8809

The Rue Saint-Denis is one of the oldest streets in Paris . It forms the historical route to Saint-Denis and Flanders and was laid out in the 1st century. The rue Saint-Denis has been lined with houses since 1134.

course

It starts at Avenue Victoria 12, crosses the 1st and 2nd arrondissement ,

  • the Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois district (nos. 1 to 5 and 2 to 10),
  • the Quartier des Halles (No. 7 to 133 and 12 to 104 bis),
  • the Quartier de Bonne-Nouvelle (nos. 135 to 293 and 106 to 252)

and ends after 1334 meters at Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle 1 or Boulevard Saint-Denis 19.

At its southern end it turns into Place du Châtelet and at its northern end into Rue Faubourg Saint-Denis; Via the Rue de la Chapelle it extends into Route nationale 1. This makes it the arterial road to the north, towards Saint-Denis and Flanders, but in fact also to the west, since in Saint Denis you meet the Seine again and the Seine- Following the loop , you can turn off towards Normandy without having to cross the river again. As an arterial road, it was replaced by the urban planning measures of Baron Haussmann in the middle of the 19th century by the Boulevard de Sébastopol 100 meters further east.

On its 1.3 kilometers, Rue Saint-Denis u. a .:

  • the rue de Rivoli
  • the rue Berger
  • the rue Étienne Marcel / rue aux Ours
  • the rue de Turbigo, as well
  • the rue Réaumur

Between the Place des Innocents and the Rue de Turbigo, the Rue Saint-Denis has been converted into a pedestrian zone . One of the city's two famous red light districts is on this section of the street .

history

The Porte Saint-Denis in the Middle Ages

When the traffic flows away from the old Cardo ( Rue Saint-Martin and the road to Soissons ) in post-Roman times and oriented more towards Flanders, the Rue Saint-Denis became the traffic artery of the city north of the Seine - which was also expressed by it that at its end there was now the Seine bridge (today's Pont au Change), which was secured by the Grand Châtelet , while the Roman bridge further east was later even demolished, interrupting the old Cardo.

In the Middle Ages, the rue Saint-Denis was named:

  • Celery de Paris
  • Celery de la Grande Rue (13th century)
  • Grand'rue de Paris
  • Rue des Saints Innocents
  • Grand Chaussée de Monsieur
  • Grant Chaussée de Monseigneur Saint-Denis (14th century)

During the French Revolution it was called Rue de Franciade.

Attractions

Fontaine des Innocents.
Porte Saint-Denis

In line with its earlier importance as the main street north of the Seine, the Rue Saint-Denis had a number of remarkable buildings, most of which no longer exist:

  • The street began at the Grand Châtelet , of which only the Plâce du Châtelet or the Châtelet metro station reminds us today.
  • At the intersection with Rue des Lombards (formerly Rue de la Verrerie) stood the Saint-Opportune church (left) and the Hôpital Sainte Catherine (right)
  • A few meters away is the Square des Innocents, in the midst of a renaissance - well , the Fontaine des Innocents (1547-1549) by Pierre Lescot , rises, that of Jean Goujon with sculptures decorated. The fountain originally formed a kind of loggia in a house located directly on Rue Saint-Denis . It has only stood in its current location since the 19th century.
  • The once standing at this point convent Couvent des Innocents (Monastery of the innocent (children)) was demolished in the 1786th The associated large central Parisian cemetery, the Cimetière des Innocents , was closed and the bones were taken to the city's catacombs , in their place on the outskirts of the city of the Cimetière de Montmartre (north), the Cimetière Père-Lachaise (east), the Cimetière de Montparnasse (south) and the Cimetière de Passy (west) laid out.
  • Behind the Rue des Prêcheurs, where today the Rue Rambuteau meets the Rue Saint-Denis from the right, stood the great Sainte-Magloire monastery, which was secularized in 1564 (No. 82).
  • The Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles church was built since the year 1235 and in the 16th-17th centuries. Century expanded. In 1860, Victor Baltard rebuilt the east facade in the neo-renaissance style.
  • A few meters behind the intersection with the Rue aux Ours and the Rue Étienne Marcel was the first Porte Saint-Denis, which belonged to the wall of King Philip II .
  • On the left into Rue Étienne Marcel, on the right - at the time built directly onto the city wall - are the remains of the Hôtel de Bourgogne (especially the Tour Jean sans Peur), which played a central role in the rule at the time of the Armagnacs and Bourguignons the city was playing.
  • About 100 m north of the junction with Rue de Turbigo is the Passage du Grand-Cerf , which connects Rue Saint-Denis with Rue Dussoubs. The mall was opened in 1835 and houses u. a. some art galleries .
  • Further along the street, the cross streets Rue Saint-Sauveur (left) and the Passage de la Trinité (right) remind you of the church and monastery of the same name
  • At the northern end of the street was the second Porte Saint-Denis, the gateway to Saint-Denis within the city walls of Étienne Marcel . This city gate was replaced in the years 1671–1673 by a triumphal arch in honor of Louis XIV , which was built to designs by François Blondel . The reliefs on the triumphal arch are attributed to the sculptor Michel Anguier. The triumphal arch has a width and a height of approx. 23 m each.

Others

In 1988/89 the street was portrayed in the slide story Rue St. Denis (94 b / w slides (SuperSlide), approx. 50 min.) By the photo artist Brigitte Tast .

literature

  • Chris Boicos et al. a .: Paris. RV Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89480-901-9 , p. 108.
  • Julia Droste-Hennings, Thorsten Droste: Paris. A city and its myth . DuMont-Reiseverlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7701-6090-8 , p. 282.
  • Heinfried Wischermann: Architecture Guide Paris. Gerd Hatje Verlag, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-7757-0606-2 , p. 27, p. 53, p. 63.

Web links

Commons : Rue Saint-Denis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '56.8 "  N , 2 ° 21' 2.9"  E