Steubenstrasse (Bremen)
The Steuben Street is a street in Bremen . It begins on Stresemannstrasse in the Hemelingen district, Hastedt district . The last piece is in the Vahr district, Gartenstadt Vahr. There it is continued much wider than Julius-Brecht-Allee .
Steubenstrasse until 1945
Steubenstrasse is on the historic route of the old route from Hastedt through the Hastedter fields towards Vahr. It belonged entirely to Hastedt and came to Bremen with Hastedt in 1902. At that time, it began on Kirchbachstrasse (today Bennigsenstrasse) roughly where the ADAC high-rise now stands and was known as the “Vahrer Weg”. Since it was often confused with “Vahrer Straße”, it was renamed “Steubenstraße” in 1930 after the Prussian-American general Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben . At that time it was unpaved and difficult to pass after it rained, in the front, busier part it was unlit and full of thorn hedges, only in the back part through the fields there were lanterns.
Steubenstrasse after 1945
After the Second World War, Stresemannstrasse was built across Steubenstrasse . The front, south-western part was abolished in the mid-1950s and largely built over, the first few meters became the “Feuerkuhle” street. As a result, almost half of the street was lost, since then there have been no more houses and therefore no residents.
The remaining part of Steubenstrasse is divided into three parts by two railway lines that have existed since the 19th century:
- in the front part to the west there is a large hardware store on the property of the parcel post office, which was closed in 2010 and then demolished, to the east the citizens' office in the building of the "overland plant" built in the 1960s.
- in the middle part there was an allotment area until the 1970s. The “Heimweg” became “Insterburger Strasse”, the “Blumenweg” became “Neidenburger Strasse”, and commercial buildings took the place of the allotment gardens. The street front is dominated by a large car dealership.
- the rear part has belonged to the Vahr since 1959. A somewhat hidden lake was created to the east in the 1960s, to the west the Tannenbergstrasse led into small remnants of the Hastedter fields until the 1980s, only afterwards allotment gardens were created there.
The road was expanded in 1957 and has been a busy main thoroughfare ever since. In the middle part it is only two lanes. The two railway tunnels, which are much too narrow from today's point of view, come from the past as an unpaved mud path, under which the footpaths and bike paths become extremely narrow. Behind the second tunnel, Steubenstraße widens for a few meters to a seven-lane street with a wide median, which leads to an oversized intersection from the 1960s with three central islands next to each other.
Individual evidence
- ^ Conditions in Steubenstrasse, Bremer Nachrichten of January 25, 1931. Quoted from: Angelika Timm, Anne Dünzelmann : Hastedt - A village becomes a district. Publisher: Neighborhood Hastedt eV, Bremen. Project leader: Wilhelm D. Rathjen (1990). P. 73