Waisenhausstrasse (Düren)

Remnants of the city wall in Waisenhausstrasse

The Waisenhausstraße in the district town Düren ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ) is an ancient city road . It connects Oberstrasse and Hohenzollernstrasse . The street lies within the city ​​fortifications of Düren . The remains of the city ​​wall at Hohenzollernstrasse / Waisenhausstrasse are evidence of this .

history

In 1855 , dean Franz Anton Vaßen inaugurated the Catholic orphanage on the site of the old electoral rent office . The street was previously also called Spülgasse. This name was traced back to the rinsing of the woolen fabrics in cloth manufacture. Wenzel Hollar also named the path as a rinsing alley in his 1634 map.

After the city church of St. Anna was destroyed in the air raid on November 16, 1944 , the Anna Emergency Church was housed in the orphanage. Today the building is used as a retirement home.

See also

• List of streets in Düren

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• List of streets on the website of the city of Düren (PDF file; 56 kB)
• Josef Geuenich: The Düren street names , Düren 1965, published by the city of Düren and the Düren history association

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 2.9 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 9.1 ″  E