Wandsbeker Marktstrasse

Karstadt department store on Wandsbeker Marktstrasse, in front of it the entrance to the Wandsbek Markt underground station

Hamburger Strasse (Wandsbeker Marktstrasse) to the west with horse-drawn train around 1880

The Wandsbek market street is a main road in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek , it extends from the Wandsbeker Chaussee in the West for Rueter road to the east.

history

Wandsbeker Marktstrasse got its name in 1950; before that it was called Hamburger Strasse and was part of Lübecker Strasse to the east . Today's buildings mainly date from the 1950s and 1960s. During the bombing raid on Hamburg on July 25, 1943, almost all the houses on what was then Hamburger Strasse and the surrounding area were destroyed, only the Stormarnhaus (town hall), the Schimmelmann mausoleum and the Karstadt house remained undamaged. The only vacant lot that still exists today is the one at the Reimer wine house .

traffic

Subway construction 1961

The horse-drawn railway has been running on what was then Hamburger Strasse since 1866 and connected the Rathausmarkt in Hamburg with Wandsbeker Zollstrasse, later the horses were replaced by a steam locomotive and in 1897 the electric tram came , which ran until the end of the 1950s.

Between 1961 and 1962, the subway was built in the open shaft through the Wandsbeker Marktstrasse, which led to significant traffic disruptions.

In 2014, an average of 47,000 vehicles drove on Wandsbeker Marktstrasse every working day. Heavy traffic such as trucks or buses has a share of 6 percent.

building

Numerous shops and banks are lined up along Wandsbeker Marktstrasse. One of the most memorable buildings is the Karstadt house with its facade made of Main sandstone. It was built from 1921 to 1922 according to the plans of the government master builder C. G. Bensel. Already in 1892 there was a small department store "Ernst Karstadt" in the same place . The Quarree shopping center was built in 1988 to the east of Karstadt and to the north of the existing buildings .

The Matthias-Claudius-Haus at Wandsbeker Marktstrasse 20/22 commemorates the poet and journalist Matthias Claudius , who was the editor of the Wandsbecker Bote at this location . Today's house, with its yellow clinker brick facade, housed the Hamburg library until the 1980s . From 1956 to 1966, the press illustrator Helmuth Ellgaard had his studio here.

In the 1950s and 1960s there were also two movie theaters, Rex and Harmonie , on Wandsbeker Marktstrasse.

photos

The Wandsbeker Marktstrasse seen from the same place, towards the east to the Christ Church . Right the Matthias-Claudius-Haus.

Hamburger Strasse (Wandsbeker Marktstrasse) around 1800

Wandsbeker Marktstrasse 1957

Wandsbeker Marktstrasse 2008

Literature and source

• Uwe Schubert: Wandsbek. Medien-Verlag Schubert, 1990, ISBN 3-9802319-1-7 .
• Fricke, Pommerening, Röpke: Wandsbek in words and pictures. Mühlenbek-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-9807460-0-3 .
• Michael Pommerening: Wandsbek - A historical tour. Mühlenbek-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9807460-6-9 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 20.6 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 4.9"  E