Streets and squares in Fulda
The important streets and squares in Fulda consist of the national traffic connections and the inner-city main and shopping streets of the East Hessian baroque city of Fulda .
Downtown
In the Fulda downtown is the third largest pedestrian area in Hesse , which includes among other things, University Square , butter market , vegetable market , Bottom Holy Cross , Charles Street and Market Street , as well as this, the upper part of the separated Bahnhofstrasse and Bahnhofplatz belong.
Bahnhofstrasse
As a sloping north-south axis, Bahnhofsstraße connects the higher-lying train station, through a Wilhelminian-era district, with Universitätsplatz 300 m away in the center of the city center. It is divided into three sections by the crossing, two - lane one - way streets Lindenstraße (direction east) and Heinrichstraße (direction west), the upper one connects directly to the Bahnhofsplatz, the lower one joins the Rabanusstraße opposite the Universitätsplatz . All three sections are designated as pedestrian zones, but there are exceptions for cyclists, wheelchair users, delivery traffic on working days (Monday to Friday between 6 a.m. and 12 a.m., Saturdays between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m.), taxis on the upper section and for drivers traveling along the middle section (between Heinrichstrasse and Lindenstrasse ) rented a private parking space in order to be able to park there.
Bahnhofsplatz
The station square forms the northern end of Bahnhofstrasse in front of the reception building of Fulda station . The street Am Bahnhof , which leads from Petersberger Strasse to Heinrich-von-Bibra-Platz, runs parallel to the station building, one level above the station square ; the main entrance to the station is below on the square level. Until the station was rebuilt in the 1980s, Bahnhofsstrasse was connected to the station building on this level, but then, like the reception area, was lowered to basement level so that the station underpass can be reached from the square at ground level. The eastern edge of the square is closed by a multi-storey building, in the middle of which a covered staircase leads to the central bus station (ZOB), which is served by all city bus routes and is the starting point for regional bus routes. There is also a fountain in the pedestrian-only square.
University Square
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Universitätsplatz, to the south of Rabanusstrasse, is an important center of the city center. It mediates between the small-scale medieval old town that adjoins to the south and the clear grid of the Wilhelminian expansion of the city north of Rabanusstraße towards the train station. The design goes back to the award-winning Munich architect Sep Ruf (1908–1982), who rearranged both the university and Borgiasplatz between 1961 and 1964 and designed the department store for Karstadt (opened in 1964). Its unmistakable architecture - committed to the aesthetics of the economic boom - is characterized by the striking contrast between the weightless transparency of the glazed parts of the building on the one hand and the closed components on the other. The bronze rock fountain by Georg Brenninger , who taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, from 1963 is set up in front of the Karstadt department store . From 2008 to 2012, the University Square was redesigned by the Oberhausen planning group after the parking garage under the square had made a renovation necessary. In particular, a square plane tree grove was added as a relaxation area in the upper part.
The name of the Universitätsplatz goes back to the University of Fulda (1734-1805), which was housed in the building designed by Andreas Gallasini on the southeastern edge of the square (today Adolf-von-Dalberg-Grundschule).
In the middle of the square stood the ancient "Ackerhof" (farm yard) of the Jesuits, who lived in Fulda from 1571 to 1773, until it was demolished in 1904. Also called "old Mang", the history of the building goes back to the year 1238, when the first Franciscans came to Fulda and founded a barefoot monastery here .
Borgiasplatz
To the southwest of the Universitätsplatz is the Borgiasplatz , at the southern end of which is the parish church of Fulda and, opposite, the old Fulda town hall (with the men's fashion house Köhler).
Jesuit Square
To the south of Universitätsplatz is Jesuitenplatz , which is bordered by the department store and the building of the former city school, in which the Vonderau Museum , named after the local researcher Joseph Vonderau , has been located since 1930 .
Rabanusstrasse
The 580 m long Rabanusstraße (named after the Fulda abbot Rabanus Maurus ) leads from the Fulda City Palace and the bus station in the west to Dalbergstraße. It touches the northern edge of Universitätsplatz. In the eastern section it is advertised for private traffic as a one-way street heading west, the lane to the east is designed as a bus lane. At the western end at the bus station south of the street is the medieval Heertor , in the east at the intersection with Peterstor , Petersgasse and Vor dem Peterstor the Peterstor . Several city bus routes run along the street and serve the Stadtschloss , Universitätsplatz and Peterstor stops .
Butter market
The butter market is a square in the city center. This is where the Marktstrasse , Karlstrasse , Steinweg and Peterstor meet . The square, where the Jesuits once performed their games, used to be called the Saturday or Saturday market, also known as the salt market (1358 Saturday market ). It received its current name because agricultural products such as butter were for sale here until around 1950. To the south, between the Zum Schwarzen Bären building (1434) and the former Zum Schützen inn (1571), an ancient alley branches off to Ohmstrasse, which has been called Poussiergässchen since 2000 .
Vegetable market
A central square in the lower town of Fulda between Kanalstrasse and Mittelstrasse is the vegetable market, which the city fathers assigned to the dump trucks as a marketplace in 1795 as sellers of fruit and victuals , but which has only been named after 1837. Before that, the place first mentioned in 1481 was called uff der Dantzhütte . At the beginning of the 17th century there was a gallows on the square, then a stake with two neck irons, which in 1791 was felt to be unsuitable and was moved to the cane house . A fountain ( Steinkumpf ) was built in its place, bearing the coat of arms of Prince-Bishop Adalbert III. von Harstall , was officially named Harstall-Brunnen in the course of the 1275-year Fulda anniversary in 2019. A large part of the adjoining houses was destroyed on September 11, 1944 during the first major bomb attack on Fulda. The square, where a weekly market is held twice a week, was redesigned / redesigned in 1961 and the last time in 2002/2003, the solitary building now located there caused heated discussions.
Arterial roads
In Fulda, six major arterial roads connect the city center with the peripheral areas and the national roads. These include Leipziger , Petersberger , Magdeburg , Künzeller , Bardo and Frankfurter Strasse .
Frankfurter Strasse
The 3000 m long Frankfurter Straße follows the course of the medieval trading route Via Regia from Leipzig to Frankfurt am Main south of the city center , where the name comes from; analogously, a large northern arterial road is called Leipziger Straße . The Frankfurter Straße connects the entire southern region Fulda and the southern parts of the city with the city center and also serves as from bronze creator gyro as an extension of the motorway B 27 to A 66 and A 7 to the south. At the northern end there is a large intersection, where on the one hand Bardostraße leads over the Fulda (river) to the west and Von-Schildeck-Straße on the edge of the city center leads east to Petersberger and Künzeller Straße . Löherstrasse , which is already part of the inner city, continues directly to the north . In the past, Frankfurter Strasse began in Löherstrasse, precisely behind the point where the "Fuldtthor" and gatehouse stood for hundreds of years. A classical building erected there in 1830 bore the official name Frankfurter Straße 1, because of the breakthrough of "Von-Schildeck-Straße" the building was named Löherstraße 39.
Supraregional roads
Highways
Fulda is located on two motorways, the A 7 runs east of the city in a north-south direction , the A 66 begins in the south-east of the city at the Fulda triangle and leads to the south-west. The A 7 is the longest motorway in Germany and runs from Füssen in the Allgäu to the Danish border. Due to its central location in Germany, Fulda is roughly in the middle of the entire route. The A 66 serves as a regional motorway connecting the Rhine-Main area with East Hesse and beyond that via the A 7 to Thuringia and eastern Germany.
Along the A 7, Fulda is opened up by the two exits Fulda-Nord and Fulda-Mitte and via the Fulda motorway triangle with the A 66 through the Fulda-Süd junction .
- Fulda-South (53)
- The motorway junction Fulda South on the A 66 forms a road cross with from here to Fulda highway-like developed B 27 until the release of the motorway section A 66 between Fulda-South and the triangle Fulda 2005 was this region of the B 40 and the present The Fulda triangle was called the Fulda-Süd junction .
- Fulda-Center (92)
- The Fulda-Mitte motorway junction was opened in 2007 and serves as a faster connection to the eastern urban area, the peripheral communities of Künzell and Petersberg and the wider Rhön.
- Fulda North (91)
Federal highways
The federal highways B 27 , B 40, B 254 and B 458 run through Fulda
- Bundesstrasse 27
- The B 27 runs through the city between the Fulda Süd (A 66) and Fulda Nord (A 7) motorway junctions and serves as a feeder road in both directions. This is why it is built like a motorway between Fulda Süd and the connection to Frankfurter Straße at the Bronzeller roundabout and from the Leipziger Straße driveway to Fulda Nord with separate lanes and two direction strips . The section in between is laid out as a car road and is consistently equipped with plan-free crossings in the form of driveways and entrances; in some cases the lanes are also separated by a median. The 2plus1 system is used in other places, with two lanes in one direction and only one in the other. The route runs east of the city center partly along the municipal boundaries of Fulda with the agglomeration communities of Künzell and Petersberg, mostly through densely built-up areas and is therefore largely flanked by noise barriers. Even if it is not directly adjacent to buildings or if they are not accessible from it, it is called Berliner Straße in the urban area .
- Bundesstrasse 40
- The B 40 was one of the most important German traffic arteries until the autobahn was built and led from Fulda via Frankfurt, Mainz and Kaiserslautern to Saarbrücken . Today it has largely been replaced by motorways, between Fulda and Frankfurt by the A 66 . Until the gap on the A 66 between junctions 51 Neuhof Süd and 53 Fulda Süd has been closed, the B 40 continues to exist for this connection , which merges directly with the A 66 at both ends .
- Bundesstrasse 254
- The B 254 leads from the Felsberg junction of the B 49 via Alsfeld and Lauterbach from the west to Fulda. Before the settlement border, the Westring branches off from it as a bypass to Frankfurter Strasse . In the urban area it runs as Bardostraße first west of the Fulda to the south, then crosses this south of the city center, where the B 458 branches off. As Frankfurter Strasse , it continues south to the connection with the B 27 .
Historic streets
Kinzigtalstrasse
The Via Regia ( lat. Königsstraße ) called Kinzigtalstraße was an important military and trade route between Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig. Way of St. James , "King's Road"
Antsanvia
The Antsanvia (lat. Antiana via "old road") is an old road that led as a high path along the watersheds on the hills from Mainz to Eisenach without crossing the localities. Coming from Giesel , the Alte Straß near Kämmerzell led through a ford across the Fulda. Since the long bridge over the Fulda was built near Fulda in 872 (a little north of the mouth of the Giesel), the route north to Giesel and between Sickels and Harmerz through to the Fulda has become more important. At the bridge over the river, the Kinzigtalstrasse met the Antsanvia.
Ortweg
The Ortweg is an old road whose origins go back to the time of the Celts . It was a trade route that connected the Marburger Land, the Vogelsberg , the Rhön and the historic grave field . It ran over the Vogelsberg, crossed the Antsanvia and crossed the Fulda near Bronnzell . The path continued over the Rhön and forked to the Thuringian Forest and as Rennweg or Hohe Straße over the Haßberge in the area around Bamberg .
Route 46
The construction of the Reichsautobahn route 46 between Fulda and Würzburg began in 1937 and stopped in 1939 due to the war. After the end of the Second World War , the previous planning and construction work was discarded and the A 7 was built with a different route. Today there are still numerous fragments of the 70 km almost completed motorway in the landscape.
literature
- Michael Mott : A house was the talk of the town / The "Vorm Fuldtthor" building was built in 1830 / Frankfurter Strasse officially began here, in: Fuldaer Zeitung, October 21, 1998, p. 10 (series: Fulda once and now).
- Michael Mott: The "Käßstein" house on the Saturday market / ancestral home of the "Wein-Schmitt" family / 500 years of Fulda history, in: Fuldaer Zeitung, November 18, 1998, p. 17 (Series: Fulda once and now).
- Michael Mott: The "old Mang" on Universitätsplatz / obituary for an ancient "historically remarkable" building in Fulda city center, which was demolished in 1904, in: Fuldaer Zeitung, January 27, 1999, p. 14 (series: Fulda once and now).
- Michael Mott: The Poussiergässchen, lovable Fuldaer Gasse with history, in "Buchenblätter" Fuldaer Zeitung, 88th year, No. 6, April 1, 2015, pp. 22-24.
- Michael Mott: A fountain instead of the stake: The "Harstall fountain" on the vegetable market in Fulda, in: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter, magazine of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein 2019, year 95/2019, Fulda 2020, pp. 189–214.
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Footnotes
- ↑ formative influence: Sep Ruf in Fulda , Bauwelt 33/2011
- ^ The new generosity: Universitätsplatz and Borgiasplatz in Fulda , Oberhausen planning group
- ↑ Friedrich A. Wagner: This is a mountain range for hiking. In: Die Rhön (= Merian , vol. 17 (1964), volume 4), pp. 5–10, here p. 6.