Streets and squares in Ludwigshafen am Rhein / K
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse
67059 Ludwigshafen-Mitte
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße runs about 1 kilometer in an east-west direction from the banks of the Rhine to the main train station and is one of the most important streets in the city center.
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse was laid out as an important traffic and business route in the middle of the 19th century. It begins in the east on the banks of the Rhine, runs through the city center and ends in the west on Westendstrasse. 1885 was, by then as Bridge Street called, according to the German Emperor I. Wilhelm renamed.
In 1854 the first simultaneous church in Ludwigshafen was built here, which was later bought by the Jewish community and converted into a synagogue in 1865. In 1938 she fell victim to the Reichskristallnacht. Today a plaque on house number 34 reminds of the former location.
The middle section is characterized by public buildings such as the Pfalzbau and the Wilhelm Hack Museum .
Also here is the job center (formerly GfA), formerly EMTEC (BASF companies) and former employment office.
Kallstadter Strasse
67065 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Kallstadt on the German Wine Route is a place of the collective municipality Freinsheim in the Bad Dürkheim district.
Kalmitstrasse
67059 Ludwigshafen-Mundenheim
Two mountains in the Palatinate Forest are called Kalmit : the Große Kalmit (673 m) near Maikammer and the Kleine Kalmit (270 m) near Landau-Arzheim .
Kalmitstraße leads from Wasgaustraße ( Wasgau , another topographical name in the Palatinate Forest ) to Mundenheim train station.
Canal Street
67063 Ludwigshafen
Kanalstrasse begins on Dessauer Strasse, runs through the entire northern part of the city in a south-westerly direction and ends at Bürgermeister-Grünzweig-Strasse. It was laid out in 1881 above the main collecting canal of the city's sewer system and was named Kanalstrasse in 1885.
Kantstrasse
67069 Ludwigshafen-Oppau
Immanuel Kant was a philosopher in the Age of Enlightenment and is one of the most important philosophers in Western philosophy.
Kantstrasse is a short connecting road between Bauhausstrasse and August-Becker-Strasse. There are no other streets in the area that are named after philosophers.
Kapellengasse
67071 Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim
Kapellengasse runs between the pilgrimage church Oggersheim and Schillerstraße and was probably called Kapellengasse soon after the construction of the Loreto chapel in the pilgrimage church .
The Schillerstift nursing home, the Minorite Monastery, the pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary and the office of Sander.Hofrichter Architekten are located in Kapellengasse .
Karl-Krämer-Strasse
67061 Ludwigshafen-Süd
Karl-Krämer-Strasse is a short dead end between Wittelsbachstrasse and Rottstrasse. It was laid out at the beginning of the 20th century in connection with the construction of the tram depot and originally belonged to Beethovenstrasse. It was renamed in memory of the police sergeant Karl Krämer, who was shot by separatists in 1923. On the east side, the administration building of the tram depot, built in 1909/1910, with its elongated facade defines the street scene, while the west side is taken up by a side wing of the local court built in the 1920s .
Karl-Kreuter-Strasse
67071 Ludwigshafen-Notwende
Karl Anton Kreuter was a teacher, author and local researcher. Of his 53 years of service as a teacher and rector, he spent 47 years in Oggersheim.
Karl-Legien-Strasse
67071 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Carl Legien was a union official. In 1913 he became President of the International Trade Union Confederation and in 1919 Chairman of the ADGB.
Karl-Linde-Strasse
67069 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Carl von Linde was an engineer, inventor and founder of what is now an international group, Linde AG .
Karl-Otto-Braun-Strasse
67069 Ludwigshafen, Germany
The teacher and local researcher Karl-Otto Braun founded a local history museum in Oppau, in which, in addition to documentation of the local history, a geological-paleontological and archaeological collection, living spaces and facilities of bourgeois and rural living culture as well as agricultural equipment can be seen.
Karl-Reiss-Strasse
67065 Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim
Carl Reiss was consul general and honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim and the community of Neuhofen. The Mannheim Reiss Museum was founded by him and his sister Anna . His connection to Rheingönheim came about through hunting, because Reiß was a hunting tenant in the Rheingönheim district. Reiss also financed the excavations at the Roman fort. A memorial stone in the Rheingönheim Wildlife Park commemorates him.
Karlsbader Strasse
67065 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary in Czech) is a city in the west of the Czech Republic and is one of the most famous and traditional health resorts in the world.
Karlstrasse
67063 Ludwigshafen
Karlstrasse is a short spur road between Rohrlachstrasse and Kanalstrasse. It bears its name after Emperor Charlemagne.
Kärntner Strasse
67065 Ludwigshafen-Gartenstadt
Carinthia is the southernmost federal state in Austria.
The Kärntner Straße is in a part of the garden city that was called Ostmarkviertel during the Third Reich and where the streets were named after cities and areas in Austria.
Karolina Burger Street
67065 Ludwigshafen-Mundenheim
Karolina-Burger-Straße connects Mundenheimer Straße with Saarlandstraße and leads directly to the Catholic St. Sebastianskirche . On the street are the St. Annastift, a children's hospital with a children's clinic and child and adolescent psychiatry and a Catholic children's home, and the Mundenheim school center with the Heinrich-Böll-Gymnasium and the Karolina-Burger-Realschule.
The teacher Karolina Burger founds a welfare home in a 3-room apartment, from which the St. Annastift developed. She took in neglected children and rented a house in Mundenheim in 1913, in which she set up a children's home. She also founded the Catholic welfare association in Ludwigshafen, of which she was first chairman until 1933. In the 1929 local elections in Ludwigshafen, she angered the representatives of the Catholic Center Party because she ran with her own list of women. She had to quit her job in 1933 because of a heart condition. She later moved to Altötting , where she died in 1949.
In 1960, the city of Ludwigshafen honored its commitment by renaming the Königsstraße to Karolina-Burger-Straße. In 1997 the secondary school in the school center was renamed Karolina-Burger-Realschule.
Kekuléplatz
67063 Ludwigshafen
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz was a chemist who laid the foundations for the modern structural theory of organic chemistry.
Kirchenstrasse
67069 Ludwigshafen-Oppau
Kirchenstrasse forms the north-western flank of the oldest settlement center in Oppau . Its name can be traced back to the church, first documented in 807, on the site of today's Church of the Resurrection . The first Church of the Resurrection in Oppau was built in 1830. It was badly damaged in the explosion of the Oppau nitrogen works on September 21, 1921 and in the Second World War. The reconstruction first took place in 1923 and after the war in 1951.
Kirchenstrasse begins at Georg-Hüter-Platz as a continuation of Rheinstrasse and ends at Breitscheidstrasse.
Kleestrasse
67067 Maudach
Clover (Trifolium) is a genus of plants comprising 243 species. It is part of the subfamily of the butterflies (Faboideae) from the legume plant family (Fabaceae).
Kleestrasse runs in a horseshoe shape from and to Mittelstrasse and thus forms the north-western end of the Maudach district. The Maudach terminus for several bus routes is on Kleestrasse.
Knietschstrasse
67063 Ludwigshafen
Rudolf Knietsch was a chemist. He joined BASF in 1884. There, building on the results of Clemens Winkler, he developed the contact process for the industrial synthesis of sulfuric acid . He also succeeded for the first time in the technical liquefaction of chlorine as one of the fundamentals of technical chlorine chemistry .
Knollstrasse
67061 Ludwigshafen-Süd
Knoll was a German pharmaceutical company. It is now part of Abbott Laboratories .
Koenigsplatz
67071 Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim
The square between Raiffeisenstrasse and Keltenstrasse, created around 1914, is a reminder of the royal Bavarian past of the Palatinate. In the middle of the square is a war memorial for those who fell in the war of 1870/71, which had stood on Schillerplatz since 1897 and was moved here in the 1950s.
Kreuzgasse
67071 Ludwigshafen, Germany
The Kreuzgasse starts on Schillerstraße, runs through the center and flows into Schillerplatz on the west side. It owes its name to a stone cross that has disappeared and which is said to have stood in front of the Blomberg'schen Hofgut.
Kropsburgstrasse
67065 Ludwigshafen, Germany
The Kropsburg is located in the district of the southern Palatinate wine-growing community of St. Martin in the Southern Wine Route district. The street is a social hotspot where homeless people in Ludwigshafen have been directed by the city administration. These emergency shelters were only intended as a temporary solution, but for many they became permanent residence, which resulted in ghettoization. [1]
Kruger Street
67065 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Paul Kruger (Kruger pronounced) also Oom Paul (Afrikaans for " Uncle Paul "), Ohm Kruger was a South African politician. He captured the rebelling so-called Uitlanders and had some of them killed. Much to the displeasure of the British, the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Kruger congratulated him on his success with the “ Krüger Depesche ”, which has gone down in history .
Kurfürstenstrasse
67061 Ludwigshafen-Süd
Kurfürstenstraße was laid out around 1900 as a residential street in a central location. In 1906 it was given its name in memory of the Wittelsbach dynasty, who had been Palatine electors since 1353.
It begins at Bürgermeister-Krafft-Platz and runs through the southern city center to Kurfürstenplatz.
Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse
67069 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Kurt-Schumacher-Straße begins at Friedrichstraße and leads north, where it turns off at the level of Max-Planck-Straße to Edigheimer Straße.
Since 1960 it has had its current name after the social democratic politician Kurt Schumacher , before that the various sections Ludwigstrasse, Mozartstrasse and Laura-Strasse were named.
Kussmaulstrasse
67063 Ludwigshafen-Friesenheim
Adolf Kussmaul was a doctor and university professor who is considered to be a co-author of the term " Biedermeier ". By the way, the name Kussmaul is probably a reinterpretation from the Czech Kosmaly (= blacksmith).
The Kußmaulstrasse runs southeast of the clinical center of the city of Ludwigshafen from the Schanzstrasse over the Sauerbruchstrasse to the Robert-Koch-Strasse.