Sierichstrasse

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The Sierichstraße in Hamburg is an important, two-lane thoroughfare and connecting road between Hamburg's city center and the northern districts - together with Herbert-Weichmann-Straße on Uhlenhorst as its southern extension. It runs east of the Alster through the Winterhude district ( north end , south end ) and is one of the few roads in Europe on which the direction of travel is changed depending on the time of day .

history

Platform of the Sierichstraße subway station

The street was named in 1863 after Adolph Sierich (1826–1889). Sierich inherited lands in the center of what was then Winterhude from his father . From 1850 he bought the whole west of the village and created the infrastructure necessary for a district there.

An underground station on the Hamburg ring line also bears the name of the street .

Since July 2008 there have been two stumbling blocks in front of the house at Sierichstrasse 108 in memory of Emil and Alice Hammerschlag and for the fate of the people who were deported and murdered by the National Socialists .

The painter and sculptor Johannes Ufer lived with his wife, the painter Lore Ufer, from 1948 to 1958 at Sierichstrasse 54. The painter and ceramist Annette Caspar lived at Sierichstrasse 156.

Change of direction

Switchable traffic signs to indicate the direction of travel

In the 1950s, plans to widen the busy street met with resistance not only from local residents; the oak trees that line the entire length of the street should have been sacrificed to her. The later chief building director Werner Hoffmann suggested "a practice practiced in large American cities" as an alternative . "Here, with much denser traffic, you had good experiences with changing traffic routing - back and forth in the morning - in the same street as a one-way street depending on the traffic requirements."

After a six-month test run, the direction of travel on Sierichstrasse has been changing depending on the time of day, as one of the few roads in Europe, which takes place twice a day. The street turns into a fake one-way street into town every day from 4 a.m. to 12 noon . From 12 noon to 4 a.m. it is only allowed to drive out of town. The traffic control adapts to the vehicle traffic flows and the load direction of rush hour traffic . Because of this uniqueness, Sierichstrasse is known as “Hamburg's most famous one-way street” . However, the regulations of the one-way street are not fully applied, so vehicles that are parked may drive to the next intersection and then have to leave Sierichstrasse. So it is a restricted entry street and not a one-way street. There is also a right-hand drive requirement on this street, so that the risk of accidents from oncoming vehicles is reduced.

After traffic accidents , it was repeatedly criticized that “switching the direction of travel is a confusing regulation not only for outsiders” and thus contributes to accidents. According to the Hamburg police , however, there is “no increased accident situation” and “the system with the change of direction has proven itself over the years” , so that “there is no reason to change anything” .

Since 2012, cyclists have also had to follow the one-way direction, which changes at different times of the day, since the extremely narrow sidewalks that were previously required to be used are no longer permitted for cyclists. This new regulation was criticized because of the associated detours, particularly to adjacent properties.

swell

  • Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell history . 4th edition, Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-929229-41-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sierichstrasse.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 30, 2018 ; accessed on April 30, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sierichstrasse.de
  2. ↑ Insa Gall: The ghost drivers of the noon hour . In: THE WORLD . June 27, 2005 ( welt.de [accessed April 30, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Friederike Ulrich: Sierichstraße: A construction site feels like a vacation . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed April 30, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Line U3: Sierichstraße ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the online platform Die Hamburger U-Bahn Geschichte , accessed on February 6, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.u-bahn-hamburg.com
  5. ^ U-Bahn station Sierichstraße on the online platform Hamburger Bahnhöfe (accessed on February 6, 2009).
  6. ↑ “Remembrance: Soon 3000 stumbling blocks will be reminiscent of Nazi victims” ; Report by Nina Drewes in Welt on July 21, 2008, accessed February 6, 2009.
  7. ↑ Werner Hoffmann, Die Grüne Spur, 1937–1956, Hamburg 1994, p. 94 f.
  8. ↑ Sierichstrasse website ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sierichstrasse.de
  9. ↑ a b Malte Steinhoff: AGAIN! Accident on Sierichstrasse - taxi rams a cyclist . In: Hamburger Morgenpost . September 5, 2008, ZDB ID 291023-8 ( online [accessed November 16, 2017]).