Valencienner Strasse (Düren)

The Breuer's Häuschen restaurant from the 18th century.

The Valencienner road in the district town Düren ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a major city road . It is one of the main entrances to the city center from the west. The Valencienner Straße is partially developed with multiple lanes and classified as federal highway 264 .

The street begins at the confluence of Aachener Straße / Monschauer Straße and ends at the western exit towards Langerwehe . A large part of it crosses the Gürzenich district .

Located on Valencienner Strasse

• the city ​​park
• the former city nursery with the pavilion of the Chinese twin city Jinhua
• the opposite factory site of the former Leopold Schoeller fine cloth factory
  • the former dye works
  • the former Kaysermühle
  • the former wool warehouse and laundry
  • the former twisting mill
  • the former administration wing and the distribution warehouse , today partly the premises of the Macherey-Nagel company
  • the residential building Valencienner Strasse 9
• the Johanneskreuz at the confluence of Gürzenicher Straße
• the Breuer's house , a restaurant from the 18th century
• the residential building Valencienner Strasse 221 on the corner of Kommgartenweg

All buildings and the crossroads are listed .

history

The street is named after the northern French town of Valenciennes named, one with the Düren in 1959 twinning entered. According to the decision of the city council on March 29, 1963, the entire length of the “Aachener Landstrasse” was renamed Valencienner Strasse.

From 1908 to 1954 the tram of the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB) used today's Valencienner Strasse between today's Bahnstrasse and Schillingsstrasse. The single-track route led from Rölsdorf to Gürzenich. The stops were Breuer 's little house , the Gürzenich-Staatbahnhof junction and the Fuchs inn . The line was closed in 1954.

From 1912 to 1970, the DKB ring line also crossed today's Valencienner Strasse. Today the Bahnstraße is located on the route of this route.

See also

• List of streets in Düren

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• List of streets on the website of the city of Düren (PDF; 58 kB)
• Josef Geuenich: The Düren street names , Düren 1965, published by the city of Düren and the Düren history association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH (ed.): 75 years of Dürener Kreisbahn ; Düren, 1983, p. 14

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 35.6 ″  E