Steinweg (Braunschweig)

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Steinweg
coat of arms
Street in Braunschweig
Steinweg
Steinweg: looking east towards the State Theater
Basic data
place Braunschweig
District Downtown
Created 13th Century
Newly designed after 1945
Hist. Names via lapidea (1239),
upme stenweghe (1307)
Connecting roads to the west: Dankwardstrasse;
to the east: At the theater
Cross streets to the north and south: Bohlweg ;
to the north: Wilhelmstrasse , Schöppenstedter Strasse, Theaterwall ;
to the south: Ritterbrunnen , Ehrenbrechtstraße
Buildings State Theater
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 300 m

The Steinweg is a short connecting road in Braunschweig from the city center to the east. Although not the main route, the road has an important function. From the city center, it opens up “Braunschweig's culture”, the Braunschweig State Theater , the museums and, further to the east, the university district.

etymology

The name of the street could be derived from its stone pavement or from a stone storage area that was there a long time ago. The etymology is not entirely clear.

Companies

Aerial photo from 1945 with the war damage, on the left side you can see the intact buildings that had to give way for a new development

The connection between the street name “Steinweg” and the piano-making family of the same name is concise - the parent company of Grotrian-Steinweg ( Bohlweg 48) is not located directly on Steinweg, but just a short distance across it. The eldest son Theodor of the Steinweg family who emigrated to the USA , then Steinway , remained in the Duchy of Braunschweig and relocated the piano- making workshop he had taken over from father Heinrich from Seesen first to Wolfenbüttel , then together with his partner Grotrian in 1862 to Braunschweig near the cultural center.

City map from 1899 with the Steinweg (upper third) and its immediate surroundings.

100 years ago there were many shops on Steinweg (colonial and sugar confectionery business of the Jürgens brothers since 1881), hotels (Park Hotel, Central Hotel) and cafes. The Café Luck was the center of high society Braunschweig. Members of the nobility, such as Duke Ernst August, frequented his family, the upper classes and artists in it and in the nearby hotels and restaurants. This included the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler , the composer Max Reger and celebrities such as Graf Luckner and Elly Beinhorn when they paid a visit to Braunschweig.

Impressions

literature

  • Johann Angel: Steinweg , In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 220f
  • Hermann Dürre : History of the City of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages , Braunschweig 1861 (digitized version)
  • Donald W. Fostle: The Steinway Saga: An American Dynasty . Scribner, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-684-19318-2 .
  • Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories; Volume 1: Inner City . Elm-Verlag, Cremlingen 1995, ISBN 3-927060-11-9 .
  • Heinrich Meier : The street names of the city of Braunschweig , In: Sources and research on the history of Braunschweig. Volume 1, Wolfenbüttel 1904.
  • Paul Jonas Meier , Karl Steinacker : The architectural and art monuments of the city of Braunschweig. 2nd, expanded edition, Braunschweig 1926.

Web links

Commons : Steinweg (Braunschweig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Angel: Steinweg , In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , p. 220
  2. ^ Heinrich Meier: The street names of the city of Braunschweig , p. 101

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 55.9 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 43 ″  E