Ubierring

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Ubierring is the street name of the southernmost section of the Cologne rings , which runs with a length of 822 meters between the banks of the Rhine (Agrippinaufer) and Chlodwigplatz in Cologne's Neustadt-Süd .

History of origin

Ubierring 40: Business Development Agency (1907)
Ubierring 45: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (around 1910)

The city ​​wall originally ran along the Ubierring , which is still visible through the Severinstorburg . After the demolition of the old city walls began on June 11, 1881 at the level of the Gereonstore , the city of Cologne also began the systematic demolition of the remaining sections. The open space left by the wall provided space for a broad , boulevard-like street. The Ubierring, named on May 10, 1883, commemorates the Ubier people who founded an oppidum in Cologne , the predecessor settlement of the then Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium . The sewer system on the rings was completed on November 11, 1885.

From Mainzer Straße, the Ubierring splits by a median strip designed as a park and provides space for a small green area to the banks of the Rhine. The 1.2 hectare park was laid out between 1899 and 1901 by horticultural director Adolf Kowallek , who also created the other parks on the rings. At the Ubierring, Sachsenring , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring and Deutscher Ring (today Theodor-Heuss-Ring ), the median strips widened from 15 meters to around 100 meters in width and provided space for parks.

Construction on the Ubierring began relatively late. The first residential buildings were built from 1890, for example in Ubierring No. 5. A well-known Art Nouveau facade from 1905 is at No. 35. At No. 40 was the “Gewerbeförderungsanstalt für die”, designed by Hans Verbeek and opened on October 5, 1903 Rhine Province ". This was laid down in 1920 and the Cologne art college in Cologne was built on Martin Elsaesser's property by April 1924 . Today the successor university, the Cologne International School of Design, has its headquarters here.No. 45 housed the baroque Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (opened on November 12, 1906) designed by Edwin Crones , the building of which was also destroyed on February 28, 1945 after a direct bombing has been. The museum was reopened on July 7, 1967 and has been in the Neumarkt cultural center since October 23, 2010 . Since December 2010, the building is from the Rheinische Musikschule accessed with Kammerspiele. The mechanical engineering school, headed by Friedrich Romberg , was located on the 7,700 m² open-air site at no. 46-48, with a stone facade on a front length of 84 meters. It opened on October 1, 1904 and showed its spacious vestibule, in the central axis of which was a 20 × 12 meter auditorium. The large-scale Peter and Paul attack from 28/29. June 1943 largely destroyed the rings and their houses; funnels of high-explosive bombs were found; 4377 people died.

  • Ubierring 35: residential and commercial building, built in 1905 (June 2008)

  • Ubierring 40: Cologne University of Applied Sciences (June 2008)

  • Ubierring 45: former Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (August 2010)

  • Ubierring 48 - TH Köln (Südstadt Campus, Humanities Center) (November 2012)

  • Ubierring 61a: Am Bayenturm (June 2008)

All houses on the Ubierring that were destroyed in the war were rebuilt. The mechanical engineering school was reopened on May 15, 1946, acquired by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1972 and used today by the Cologne University of Applied Sciences . The best-preserved ensemble of residential buildings (1905–1910) in the Cologne ring is located on the Ubierring.

Bottmühle

At the Bottmühle (August 2013)

The nearby Bottmühle is not part of the medieval city wall. Between 1550 and 1552, the Italian fortress builder Alessandro Pasqualini built a weir or rampart platform ("Bott") behind the city wall. When in 1587 the corn lords were asked to build a windmill on the site behind St. Severin , they commissioned Peter von Gleuel to build it for 500 guilders. He built a wooden post mill , which was completed in February 1588. Town stone mason Arnold von Gülich replaced it between June 1677 and July 1678 with a stone tower windmill with a lower archway and arched windows. The mill, which has been privately owned since 1879 at the latest, has belonged to the city of Cologne since 1921. Since 1970 it has been the seat of the “Falcon Socialist Youth” . The mill, which has been a listed building since July 1, 1980, was renovated by July 2011 and its ivy growth was removed.

location

The Ubierring ends at the Agrippaufer and begins at Chlodwigplatz, from which the Bonner Straße runs as an arterial road towards the south to Bonn . It is the beginning or end of the Cologne Rings, its northern extension is the Karolingerring . The Cologne Stadtbahn runs lines 15 and 16 across the median of the Ubierring. While line 15 has its terminus and start stop here, the Rheinuferbahn line 16 has been running from Barbarossaplatz on the rings since August 12, 1978 , to return to the old one at Ubierring To push the Rhine bank route. The Ubierring is part of the federal highway 9 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Ubierring  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Gothein , Georg Neuhaus: The city of Cöln in the first century under Prussian rule 1815 to 1915 , part 1, 1916, p. 230.
  2. ^ Hiltrud Kier : Cologne: Kunstführer , 1980, p. 129.
  3. ^ Philipp Krapf: Advances in Engineering , 1906, p. 178.
  4. ^ Hiltrud Kier : The Cologne Neustadt. Planning, creation, use . (= Contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23), Schwann, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-590-29023-4 , p. 178f.
  5. ^ Siegfried Jakobi: The Royal Prussian Mechanical Engineering Schools , 1905, p. 62 ff.
  6. ↑ Carl Dietmar: The night when the hillige Coellen went down. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , June 27, 2003; Andreas Otto ( KNA ): 73 years ago: "Peter and Paul attack" in Cologne. Sea of ​​flames around the cathedral. In: Domradio.de , June 28, 2016.
  7. ^ Otto Gaul , Anton Henze , Fried Mühlberg : Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstdenkmäler und Museen , 1982, p. 411.
  8. ^ Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann : About des Antonius von Worms illustration of the city of Cologne from the years 1531 , 1819, p. 25.
  9. ^ Hans Vogts : The profane monuments of the city of Cologne , 1930, p. 122.

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 18 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 48 ″  E