Westernstrasse (Wernigerode)

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The Westernstrasse with the Western Gate Tower in 1893; in the background the then Fürstl. Stolbergsche Gymnasium, today Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gymnasium

The Western Road is one of the main shopping streets in the city of Wernigerode in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It runs in a west-east direction from the intersection with Ilsenburger Straße, over the bridge of the flood race, through the western gate to the town's market square.

history

The name Westernstrasse is first documented in the 14th century. The street led from the west through the still existing tower-crowned western gate into the old town of Wernigerode to the market square, on which the town hall is located. The extension of Westernstrasse in an easterly direction to Rimbecker Tor, which was demolished in 1843, forms the Breite Strasse .

Until the renumbering, the houses in Westernstrasse 1 to 35 had the town list numbers 15 to 47.

In the entire western course of the Westernstrasse, after the confluence of the Ringstrasse, the Westernstrasse is used as a shopping mile up to the market square and is closed to public traffic during the day. In addition to Breiten , Burgstrasse and Marktstrasse , Westernstrasse is one of the main shopping streets in Wernigerode.

Numerous listed half-timbered houses have been preserved on the north and south sides of Westernstrasse. According to the list of cultural monuments in Wernigerode, these include :

location designation description

Registration
number

Identification type image
Westernstrasse 18
(map) 		Residential building 094 25174 monument Residential building
Westernstrasse 22
(map) 		Residential building 094 25173 monument Residential building
Westernstrasse 29
(map) 		school 094 98592 monument school
Westernstrasse 35
(map) 		Residential building 094 03246 monument Residential building
Westernstrasse 37
(map) 		Residential building pharmacy 094 03247 monument Residential building
Westernstrasse 38a
(map) 		Residential building 094 97501 monument Residential building

literature

  • Walther Grosse : History of the city and county of Wernigerode in their forest, field and street names, Wernigerode 1929
  • Walther Grosse: What the Wernigerode street names tell, Wernigerode [around 1935]
  • Hermann D. Oemler : Time leaps: Wernigerode , 2011.

Web links

Commons : Westernstraße (Wernigerode)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann D. Oemler: Time leaps. Wernigerode , 2011, p. 84