Streets and squares in Ludwigshafen am Rhein

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This list shows the meanings and circumstances of the naming of the street and square names in the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

This list gives a brief explanation of the names and their location. It contains a little more than 1,000 names, but does not claim to be complete.

With the introduction of the four-digit postcodes (6700 for Ludwigshafen), the street names of the city of Ludwigshafen were standardized. Multiple street names in the area of ​​the city of Ludwigshafen due to the incorporation of the Ludwigshafen suburbs have been eliminated.

Principles

As in other cities, the street names are a mixture of names

  • by places in the region,
  • to formerly German cities and landscapes in the east,
  • according to old field names,
  • for personalities related to Ludwigshafen,
  • according to personalities of national or international importance,
  • according to historical and legendary people,
  • for plants and animals,
  • according to regions, mountains and waters.

Worth mentioning are " name nests " such as

  • Poets' quarter,
  • Painter's quarter,
  • Chemikerviertel (importance of chemistry for the city).

spelling

As a rule, Ludwigshafen adheres to the guidelines for the spelling of street names published by Duden-Verlag . The most important rules are:

  • The first word of a street name is capitalized, e.g. B. On the city wall .
  • Street names are written together, consisting of a noun (or a name) and a basic word typical of street names such as B. Street , Gasse , Weg , Platz exist: Bismarckstraße .
  • If the first component is an adjective that is bent, it is written separately: Great pale .
  • The hyphenation also applies to adjectival derivatives of place and country names: Wiener Straße .
  • The hyphen is used when the definition of the basic word consists of several words. So Albrecht-Dürer-Strasse .

literature

  • Andreas Gebauer, Stefan Mörz: Ludwigshafen street names. History and present of naming . Publications of the City Archives Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Volume 40. Ludwigshafen am Rhein; City archive; 2013; VIII, 468 pp., ISBN 978-3-924667-44-3
  • Anette Konrad: Street names: The city's cultural memory and mirror of the zeitgeist . Article in the daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz on June 3, 2009
  • Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate as Volume 8 . Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation on behalf of the Ministry of Culture. City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Modifications made by Mara Oexner. Düsseldorf: Schwann in Patmos Verlag. 1st edition, 1990. ISBN 3-491-31039-3