Wartburgallee

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The Wartburgallee is a street in Eisenach in Thuringia . It is part of the federal highway 19 . The main road, lined with numerous architectural monuments, is the most important entry and exit road in Eisenach towards southern Thuringia . It is named after the Wartburg .

course

The Wartburgallee runs from the center of Eisenach, where it branches off from Bahnhofstrasse not far from the Nikolaitores , in a southerly direction through the Eisenacher Südviertel . Important junctions and crossings are the Dr. Moritz-Mitzenheim- Strasse, Johann-Sebastian-Bach- Strasse and Waisenstrasse. Immediately after the intersection with Kurstrasse and Marienstraße, Bundesstrasse 19 leaves Wartburgallee and continues along the Prinzenteich in Mariental , while Wartburgallee swings to the southwest and forms the driveway to Wartburg. At the southern end of the Wartburgallee is the donkey station , from which you can traditionally ride donkeys up to the Wartburg.

Architectural monuments and important structures along the road

The course of the road is characterized by a large number of architectural monuments. In addition to numerous listed villas in the Eisenacher Südviertel, the road from north to south includes:

  • Hotel Kaiserhof at the beginning of Wartburgallee

  • Brewery with a historic rock cellar

  • The Abbe High School

  • ART pavilion

  • Lobby

Furthermore, there are or were several monuments in the vicinity of the street:

  • Bismarck monument at the entrance to the city park

  • Workers' monument and Kartausgarten

  • Carl Alexander Monument

  • The Cranach Memorial (2009)

Not far from the southern end of Wartburgallee is the Elisabethbrunnen . At the entrance to the city park, a listed stairway connects Wartburgallee with Karlsplatz .

history

After the Second World War, the street, which until then had been called Karthäuserstraße , was renamed Stalinallee . It was not until 1962 that the street was given its current name. From 1897 to 1953 the first line of the Eisenach tram ran through Karthäuserstraße.

Web links

Commons : Wartburgallee (Eisenach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Beichler: Apprentices at the donkey station. In: Wartburgkreisonline.de online magazine. April 1, 2005, accessed December 3, 2014 .
  2. ↑ The staircase at Karlsplatz will be accessed again on February 21, 2013
  3. ^ History of Eisenach 1946-1988

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 4.3 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 16.9 ″  E