St. Petersburg Street
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| St. Petersburger Straße from the main train station towards the north | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Dresden |
| District | Pirnaische Vorstadt , Seevorstadt |
| Created | 1965 |
| Hist. Names | Leningrad Street |
| Connecting roads | Carolabrücke , Am Hauptbahnhof |
| Cross streets | Pillnitzer Strasse, Akademiestrasse, Grunaer Strasse , Wilsdruffer Strasse , Kreuzstrasse, Dr.-Külz-Ring , Waisenhausstrasse , Bürgerwiese , Sidonienstrasse, Wiener Strasse |
| Places | Rathenauplatz , Pirnaischer Platz , Georgplatz , Wiener Platz |
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| User groups | Motor traffic , pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | about 1.6 km |
The St. Petersburg road is a section of the national highway 170 in Dresden and connects via the same leading Carolabrücke with the Dresden Main Station . It crosses the districts of Pirnaische Vorstadt and Seevorstadt and connects some important traffic junctions such as Pirnaischen Platz and Georgplatz . Parts of St. Petersburger Strasse are among the street sections with the highest volume of motor vehicles in Dresden.
Location and course
St. Petersburger Strasse is part of an important north-south axis between the districts of Weixdorf and Klotzsche (with federal motorway 4 and Dresden Airport ) in the north, Albertstadt , Neustadt , Inner Old Town and Pirnaische Vorstadt as well as the southern suburb to federal motorway 17 and the connection to the Eastern Ore Mountains around Dippoldiswalde and Altenberg . St. Petersburger Strasse is around 1.6 kilometers long and forms the border between the Pirnaische Vorstadt and the inner old town on the section between Rathenauplatz and Georgplatz. Then it crosses the eastern suburb of the lake . Within the outline of Dresden by districts , the road is completely in the district Old Town I .
St. Petersburger Strasse begins shortly after Dresden's most popular inner-city crossing of the Elbe, the Carolabrücke, at Rathenauplatz. The connecting road leading from the bridge to Rathenauplatz, also named Carolabrücke , initially describes an arc to the southwest and then continues in this direction. Immediately after the Carolabrücke the street cross-section widens and at Rathenauplatz it reaches a width of about 55 meters. On the section of the now beginning St. Petersburger Strasse towards Pirnaischer Platz, this enormous cross-section for an inner-city street with a median strip 35 meters wide remains. The median is planted with four rows of trees, but otherwise not accessible by paths.
At Pirnaischer Platz, St. Petersburger Strasse crosses with Wilsdruffer Strasse in the direction of Altmarkt and Postplatz and Grunaer Strasse in the direction of the Great Garden . This is followed by another broad section to the spacious Georgplatz, which connects the street around Dr.-Külz-Ring and Waisenhausstraße (coming from Budapester Straße and Dippoldiswalder Platz ) with the Bürgerwiese to Strehlen .
At Georplatz, St. Petersburger Strasse makes a short right-hand swing when viewed from the north and then tapers to Prager Strasse in the direction of Wiener Platz . The cross-section of the street at the southern end of Georgplatz quickly decreases to around 30 meters, as the median is only around three meters wide from there. Sidonienstraße branches off to the south-east as a connection to the Wiener Platz tunnel , before St. Petersburger Straße at Wiener Platz merges with Prager Straße into Am Hauptbahnhof , which continues to the south as Fritz-Löffler-Straße .
history
The first plans to create a relief connection between the main train station and Georgplatz to the east of Prager Strasse were made in the 1930s under the Dresden city planner, Paul Wolf . Before 1945 there was no continuous connection between these two points in the area of the current street, only Christianstraße with its then course resembled today's St. Petersburger Straße on this section. It began on Sidonienstraße and ended on Ferdinandstraße, which in turn was connected to Bürgerwiese, but not directly to Georgplatz. The main traffic ran from the train station on Prager Strasse and from there on the ring around Dresden city center to Georgplatz.
The northern part of St. Petersburger Strasse was already part of the ring before 1945, consisting in this eastern section of Maximilians- and Moritzring. Wolf's city center plan from 1938 provided for this part of the ring to be included in the new north-south connection, which was designed according to the politically preferred urban planning views of the time, and thus to relocate the traffic from the southern city center. However, these designs were never implemented.
The air raids on Dresden during the Second World War led to the complete destruction of this area, which made it possible to redesign and build the north-south connection again. The new leadership in the GDR picked up on the ideas of the 1930s and initiated a competition in 1952 to design the new street. The winning design by Wolfgang Rauda envisaged a wide boulevard with a planted median and a large assembly area on Pirnaischer Platz. The development with large blocks of houses should extend to the roadside. But even these plans did not come true, because in the 1950s the development of the Altmarkt and Ernst-Thälmann-Straße (today's Wilsdruffer Straße) was given priority.
At the beginning of the 1960s, the construction of three student residences between the main train station and Georgplatz was the initial spark for the further design of the previously fallow areas. The student dormitories were ready for occupancy before the road in front was completed. The cross-sectional and site plan design of the new connection was based on Rauda's plans, but a complete break with the development planned at the time was carried out. The three spacious high-rise buildings were in clear contrast to the originally planned closed development.
From 1968 onwards there was the extensive, car-friendly redesign of Georgplatz, Pirnaischer Platz and Rathenauplatz, including the parts of the old ring in between, which were added to the new connection. The newly created southern part was initially named Christianstrasse, based on the earlier course, but was renamed "Leningrader Strasse" on April 22, 1970 on the occasion of Lenin's 100th birthday and in honor of the twin city of Leningrad . The northern sections of today's St. Petersburger Strasse then adopted this name.
After 1990, the renaming of Leningrad in St. Petersburg was also taken into account in Dresden and the connection was renamed St. Petersburger Strasse in order to be able to continue to commemorate the existing city partnership with the Russian metropolis.
More recent urban planning plans provide for a partial dismantling and densification of St. Petersburger Straße in order to curb the city-cutting character and the traffic-attracting effect of this partly motorway-like inner-city street. In addition, the large squares along the street, especially Georgplatz, are to be made smaller, making them easier to understand for road users and recognizable as a square again. Radical plans envisaged a complete dismantling of the street between the main train station and Georgplatz based on the model of the pre-war cityscape.
Development
The New Synagogue , which opened in 2001, is located on the west side of Rathenauplatz, close to the banks of the Elbe . It consists of two opposite cubes made of colored concrete, which are supposed to be reminiscent of sandstone. The synagogue is 24 meters high and slightly twisted so that the upper edge is oriented exactly to the east. The old synagogue , which was destroyed during the November pogroms , was located in the courtyard between the actual synagogue and the parish hall until 1938 . The tram stop of the same name is right in front of the building.
On the other side of Akademiestrasse is the building of the former Reichsbank , which was built from 1928 to 1930 based on plans by Heinrich Wolff . It forms the north-eastern end of the old town and was a branch of the Deutsche Bundesbank until 2015 .
There is a parking lot for the Dresden Police Headquarters between St. Petersburger Strasse and Schießgasse facing Pirnaischer Platz . At the southwest corner of the square is the house Wilsdruffer Straße 3 , which was built in a transitional style between tradition and modernity. On the eastern side of the street, between Carolabrücke and Pirnaischer Platz, there are large, prefabricated apartment blocks . The first block between Terrassenufer and Pillnitzer Straße is a little off the street, in front of it there is a green area. There is another long eight-storey building between Rathenauplatz and Pirnaischer Platz, which is advertised as the “Carolinum”.
The most striking building on Pirnaischer Platz is the Pirnaischer Platz high-rise building on the northeast corner , consisting of a fourteen-story high-rise residential building and a two-story low-rise building in front of it. The high-rise was built from 1964 to 1966, the low-rise building after 1970. From 1968 to 1987 the writing “DER SOZIALISMUS SIEGT” was emblazoned on the high-rise .
The east side of St. Petersburger Straße between Pirnaischer Platz and Georgplatz was long characterized by the office buildings on the Robotron site . The VEB Robotron-Meßelektronik "Otto Schön" Dresden had administrative, research and social buildings here. While the former administration building on Pirnaischer Platz has been retained, large areas of the remaining area have been demolished since 2016 with the aim of building new city quarters with residential and commercial buildings under the brand name “Lingnerstadt”.
Between Pirnaischer Platz and Georgplatz there is no direct development on the west side of St. Petersburger Straße. It only begins again at the ring road, which runs parallel in this section with a distance of a few meters. In between there is a parking lot at the tram stop, and at the junction with Kreuzstraße, Georgplatz begins with extensive green spaces between the individual lanes. On the north side of the square is the New Town Hall , today's seat of the city administration, with the 100 meter high town hall tower. The Ferdinandplatz on the west side is one of the largest undeveloped land in the center of Dresden and is currently a parking lot.
South of Georgplatz, the development on St. Petersburger Straße is becoming more dense again, on the east side, from here to Sidonienstraße, there are the listed student dormitories St. Petersburger Straße . The three ten storeys were renovated in 2001. The Aquarium Student Club is located in the basement of Building 21 . A little set back from the high-rise buildings are flatter bars with sloping roofs, but they are part of the residential streets behind them.
On the opposite side of the street, the circular cinema , which opened in 1972, and the 240-meter-long, 12-story residential building Pragerzeile were the only buildings until the 1980s. The resulting corner between Ferdinandplatz and Leningrader Straße was then built on with a residential and commercial block in prefabricated construction, but with a more elaborate facade design. Since the completion of the Ufa Crystal Palace directly in front of the Walpurgisstraße stop in 1998, both the circular cinema and one end of the Prague row have been covered from the street. The deconstructivist crystal palace stands in clear contrast to the clear facade design of the buildings from the GDR era. Since the Pragerzeile is built parallel to Prager Straße, the front of the building is pointed towards St. Petersburger Straße. At the point where the Pragerzeile almost touches the edge of the street, the Pullman Dresden Newa Hotel with 15 floors joins at a little distance . Before Wiener Platz was further developed, this high-rise was the end of Prager Straße and at the same time the first building on the west side of St. Petersburger Straße.
In front of the hotel, the “Prager Spitze”, a commercial building with a glass facade between Wiener Platz and St. Petersburger Strasse, was built in 2006. In front of it is the Hauptbahnhof Nord stop, which can also be reached from Wiener Platz via a passage through the Prager Spitze.
traffic
Private transport
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The Dr.-Rudolf-Friedrichs-Brücke (from 1990 Carolabrücke) was opened in July 1971 and a high volume of traffic was expected on Leningrader Strasse (from 1990 St. Petersburger Strasse). In order to achieve a rapid flow of traffic, speed signals were installed. If the indicated speed was observed, the following traffic light crossing could usually be passed without stopping.
Especially in its northern section, St. Petersburger Strasse is one of the Dresden streets with the highest daily volume of motor vehicles . It has two lanes and four lanes throughout, at the junctions there are sometimes four or five lanes in one direction of travel. Between Georgplatz and Sidonienstraße you can park on the right side of the lane for a fee.
There are only real crossings along St. Petersburger Straße at the three large squares (Rathenau-, Pirnaischer, Georgplatz). Sidonienstraße is an exception, as it is connected to both lanes of St. Petersburger Straße to connect to the Wiener Platz tunnel. There are also only a few junctions or junctions from a road to the right. Some of these then run as narrower access roads parallel to the main carriageway and enable deliveries, entry to underground garages or access to residential buildings.
The proportion of heavy goods vehicle traffic on the entire St. Petersburger Strasse is around three to six percent. The following table shows the volume of motor vehicles along St. Petersburger Strasse in the respective sections according to the information from the Dresden traffic volume map 2018:
| From | To | To | Back | total |
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| Carolabrücke | Rathenauplatz | 24,300 | 23,400 | 47,700 |
| Rathenauplatz | Pirnaischer Platz | - | 21,600 | - |
| Pirnaischer Platz | Kreuzstrasse / Lingnerallee | 20,500 | 19,900 | 40,400 |
| Kreuzstrasse / Lingnerallee | Georgplatz | 16,200 | 21,400 | 37,600 |
| Georgplatz | Circular cinema | 13,700 | 11,800 | 25,300 |
| Circular cinema | Pullman Hotel | 12,900 | 11,500 | 24,400 |
| Pullman Hotel | Sidonienstraße | 13,700 | 11,800 | 25,500 |
| Sidonienstraße | Wiener Platz | 12,000 | 14,500 | 26,500 |
There are marked cycle lanes on both sides of the road along the entire St. Petersburger Straße. For pedestrians and cyclists there are also traffic light-controlled crossings of the street away from the large squares, for example to ensure access to public transport stops.
Public transport
In the Dresden tram network , the route along St. Petersburger Strasse is one of the busiest sections. The track body is located between the Carolabrücke and the main train station completely on the roadside facing the city center.
The Dresden Transport operate the four stops Hauptbahnhof Nord, Walpurgisstrasse, Pirnaischer court and synagogue, which all have a high volume of passengers. The Hauptbahnhof Nord stop, together with the Hauptbahnhof stop on Wiener Platz, has the highest number of passengers (56,504) in Dresden. In second place comes the Pirnaischer Platz stop (40.060). The Walpurgisstraße stop (12.020) is also among the 25 stations with the highest number of passengers (2015 data, number of passengers on the working day).
Tram lines 3, 7, 8, 9 and 11 run between Wiener Platz and Georgplatz. Lines 3, 7 and 12 travel on St. Petersburger Straße between Georgplatz and Pirnaischer Platz. From Pirnaischer Platz, 3 and 7 run together to the Carolabrücke. From Pirnaischer Platz to the south there is also a connection to the regional bus network operated by Regionalverkehr Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge GmbH and Verkehrsgesellschaft Meißen .
gallery
1961: Pirnaische Platz and the north end of what will later become Leningrader Strasse; the skyscraper is under construction, the apartment blocks are completed, the Dr.-Rudolf-Friedrichs-Brücke (Carolabrücke) was not rebuilt until 1967.
The student dormitories, the town hall tower and the street under construction, around 1963
View of the Interhotel Neva (now Pullman) from Leningrad Street, after 1965
A Tatra tram in front of the Prague Line, 1968
Ceremony for the opening of the Dr.-Rudolf-Friedrichs-Brücke, beginning of Leningrader Straße, view of Pirnaischer Platz
Parade in honor of the cosmonauts Sigmund Jähn and Valeri Bykowski on Leningrad Street on September 25, 1978
Demonstration against tuition fees on St. Petersburger Strasse in 2005
A low-floor tram of line 9 at the Walpurgisstraße stop, 2011
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Web links
- St. Petersburger Strasse in the Stadtwiki Dresden
- Student dormitories + motorway replacement : Trasse Petersburger Straße - 1960-63 on das-neue-dresden.de
- St. Petersburger Strasse in the Dresden Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Planning concept city center 2008. State capital Dresden, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Traffic volume map . In: dresden.de. City planning office of the state capital Dresden, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Winfried Schenk: DVB increases the number of passengers to 153.4 million - Line 7 is the front runner. In: Menschen-in-dresden.de. March 23, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 53.3 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 39.2" E