Koenigstrasse (Hamburg)
The King's Road is a 1,300-meter-long street in Hamburg-Altona and is one of the main road network of Hamburg . She has the official road code K325.
location
Königstraße begins at Nobistor and continues today along the Reeperbahn towards the west. It runs north parallel to Palmaille to Platz der Republik at the intersection with Max-Brauer-Allee in front of the Altona town hall . Königstraße has two lanes in each direction for motorized traffic as well as narrow pedestrian and bicycle lanes on both sides. Between Mörkenstrasse and Platz der Republik, the road towards Altona station is part of Hamburg's Veloroute 12 .
history
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In the late 19th century in particular, Königstrasse was a central link in the then independent city of Altona (Elbe). Among other things, the old Altona town hall and the first Altona hospital were located on it . From around 1938 to 1945 it was called Hinrich-Lohse- Strasse.
During the Second World War, many buildings along Königstraße were destroyed or damaged. In the 1950s it was in the area of the "Ordinance for the Design of New Altona", which provided for an extensive urban planning overhaul of Altona. Residential and commercial areas should mainly be separated. Instead of the previously existing, dense perimeter block development, the city planners, including Ernst May , now envisaged row development and high-rise buildings. Significantly widened roads were planned for transport links by car. While the implementation of "Neu-Altona" stalled in other areas of the district and was finally abandoned, only a few old buildings were rebuilt along Königstrasse. In many places, the development along Königstrasse still corresponds to the ideas of the 1950s. At the west end, Königstrasse was moved a few meters to the north during the reconstruction period. The historical course of the street continues and is now called Alte Königstraße.
On the street
South of King Street is located in the West a small park at the main church of St. Trinity . A larger area follows to the west, where the Struensee grammar school was last housed. After the demolition, a comprehensive new building is planned for this school as well as for the Franco-German grammar school and a primary school. To the west of it lies the Schleepark on the area of the former Heilig-Geist-Kirchhofs and then some red-brick houses and a row of high-rise residential buildings at Professor-Brix-Weg. North of Königstrasse, just before the Nobistor, you will find Walter Möller Park and the Altona Jewish Cemetery . In the further course to the west there are still some old buildings from the pre-war period between Behnstrasse and Elmenhorststrasse, otherwise flat row buildings and high-rise apartment buildings from the post-war period dominate the picture.
S-Bahn station
A stop in the city tunnel of the Hamburg S-Bahn is named after Königstraße . The station went into operation in April 1979. The stop is located south of Königstraße under the Schleepark. There are stairs to the surface at both ends of the central platform. At the east end they lead directly to the south side of Königstraße, at the west end over a small intermediate level to Behnstraße, at the corner of Struenseestraße. The station belongs to price class 4. There are no transfer options to other public transport lines. An express bus line on Königstraße passes the train station without stopping. At the Behnstraße exit, however, it is possible to change to a rental bike at a station from Stadtrad Hamburg .
The S-Bahn station is served by the main lines S1 and S3 every 10 minutes during the day, and also every 10 minutes during rush hour by the repeater line S2. On the nights before Saturday and Sunday as well as on public holidays, the main lines operate continuously every 20 minutes; on the other days, the S-Bahn station is closed between around 1 a.m. and 3:50 a.m.
Web links
proof
- ^ Statistics Office North: Street and area index of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- ^ Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell history , 5th edition, Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-937843-47-6
- ^ Ordinance on the design of Neu-Altona of November 13, 1956
- ↑ Dirk Hempel / NDR.de: "1956: Laying of the foundation stone for Neu-Altona", as of April 4, 2016, accessed on July 29, 2020
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 55 " N , 9 ° 56 ′ 44" E