Rue des Degrés
| Rue des Degrés | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 2. |
| quarter | Bonne-Nouvelle |
| Beginning | 87, rue de Cléry |
| The End | 50, rue Beauregard |
| morphology | |
| length | 6 m |
| width | 3.3 |
| history | |
| Emergence | in the 17th century |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 2654 |
The Rue des Degrés ( dt. "Step Street") is 5.75 meters long and 3.30 meters wide, the shortest road from Paris and one of the shortest streets worldwide. It is located in the 8th district , the Quartier Bonne-Nouvelle , in the 2nd arrondissement ( Bourse ) near the Porte Saint-Denis . The street consists entirely of a staircase that leads from rue de Cléry to rue Beauregard , which runs parallel to it .
history
The Rue des Degrés is one of several parallel streets that connect the ring road in front of the moat of the city wall Charles V - today's Rue de Cléry - with the 6th bulwark of the city wall Louis XIII. connect with each other. In place of the bulwark, there is now a small hill, la butte Bonne-Nouvelle , which was created by the accumulation of rubbish outside the city wall. The houses on Rue des Degrés have neither doors nor windows on this side; the latter existed earlier, but they were walled up. The Rue des Degrés got its name in the middle of the 17th century .
reachability
The nearest metro stations are:
reception
In the 2003 film Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (director: François Dupeyron ), the prostitutes meet in the Rue des Degrés .
See also
- Ebenezer Place , shortest street in the world
swell
- Jacques Hillairet, Connaissance du vieux Paris, rive droite, rive gauche, les îles & les villages , éditions Payot & Rivages, Paris, 1993. (ISBN | 2-86930-648-2)
- Renaud Gagneux & Denis Prouvost, Sur les traces des enceintes de Paris, promenade au long des murs disparus , éditions Parigramme, Paris, 2004. (ISBN | 2-84096-322-1)
- Road works on www.paris.fr . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Rue des Degrés in the street directory of www.paris.fr (website of the Mayor of Paris).
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '9.8 " N , 2 ° 21' 2.3" E