Steinstrasse (Hamburg)
The Stone Street ( Low German Steenstroot ) is a main road in the center of Hamburg (district Old Town ) and its name to the Metro Station Stone Road East at its end.
history
The name of the stone road reminds us that it was paved as early as the 13th century. It marked the beginning of the old country road to Lübeck , which ran through the Steintor - later moved to the north - and on over the Steindamm in the suburb of St. Georg .
On October 31, 1839, the Basson & Co. company started regular service every half hour from the pig market at the eastern end of Steinstraße through Millern and Nobistor to Altona Rathausmarkt (Königstraße) with horse-drawn buses , as had been used in Dresden in 1838 .
In 1925 the Hamburg folk singer Charly Wittong (1876–1943) became famous with the following couplet by Walter Rothenburg :
building
The main church St. Jacobi is on the north side of the street . East of it, built between Stone Street and Bugenhagenstraße the Karstadt group , which had moved its headquarters in 1912 to Hamburg, in the years 1921 to 1924 its head office with a neoclassical sandstone - facade and half columns in colossal order . When Karstadt relocated its head office to Berlin, the building was used from August 14, 1932 under the name "House of Progress" as an exhibition center with a permanent export fair and inventors' show. After the sale for around 3.3 million Reichsmarks in 1936, the St. Georg tax office moved in the following year. The building has been a listed building since March 22, 1999 .
The Horten department store (today Saturn ) at the eastern end between Lange Mühren and Steintorwall was built in 1963. The circular car park had to give way to the also circular “Schweinemarkt wash and bathing establishment”, which was the first such facility on the continent in 1855 with 65 bathtubs and 56 wash stands was built for washing clothes. Only a mosaic by Walter Siebelist (1904–1978) in the entrance to the Steinstraße subway station reminds of this today .
On the south side are listed buildings of the Kontorhausviertel :
- Hubertushaus , Steinstrasse 27, built in 1930/31 by Max Bach and Fritz Wischer.
- Rodewaldthaus, Steinstrasse 25, 1930/31, based on plans by E. Neupert.
- Steinstrasse 23, 1898, with an elaborate expressionist facade by Zauleck and Hormann.
- Altstädter Hof , Steinstrasse 13–19b, 1935–37 and Bartholomayhaus , Steinstrasse 5, 1938, both by Rudolf Klophaus .
- The block of City-Hof houses at the eastern end between Johanniswall and Klosterwall was also built by Klophaus in the 1950s and housed the Hamburg-Mitte district office until 2017 . From 1837 to 1914 the Evangelical Ladies Monastery of St. Johannis Monastery existed there.
Subway station
The Steinstrasse underground station , located at the eastern exit of Steinstrasse under Deichtorplatz , was opened on October 2, 1960 as part of the (Jungfernstieg -) Meßberg - Hauptbahnhof section of today's U1 line. The architects of the station were Gottfried Schramm and Jürgen Elingius .
Web links
- Marcus Grän. The development of city traffic in Hamburg: from horse-drawn buses to elevated trains. 2007. page 4 f.
- Steinstrasse. bildarchiv-hamburg.de, accessed on June 16, 2008 .
- Steinstrasse - corner of de Steenstroot. Hamburger Abendblatt , June 25, 2002, accessed June 16, 2008 .
- Bathtubs at the pig market
- List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as of April 13, 2010 (PDF; 915 kB) ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 915 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburg tax authority: Chronicle - Hamburg-Hansa tax office on hamburg.de, accessed May 22, 2013
- ^ The U1 line of the Hamburger Hochbahn: Steinstrasse .
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 8 ″ E