Westerstrasse (Bremen)

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Westerstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Westerstrasse
Westerstraße, north side from No. 100 to 130
Basic data
city Bremen
district Neustadt
Created in the 17th century
Cross streets Am Neuen Markt, Brautstrasse, Süderstrasse, Heinrich-Bierbaum-Strasse, Lucie-Flechtmann-Platz , Kleine Johannisstrasse, Langemarckstrasse. , Hohentorstr.
use
User groups Cars, trams, bicycles and pedestrians
Road design two to four lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 600 meters
Merian map from 1641: Below the Alte Neustadt, the Brautsrasse leads from the Weser to the Westerstrasse and Osterstrasse and the horse market
Murtfeldt plan from 1796
No. 30–36: Hachez headquarters
Nearby: St. Pauli Church from 1967
Old, destroyed Paulikirche (1872–1944)

The Westerstraße is a historical street in Bremen district Neustadt , district of Old Town . It leads in a south-east-north-west direction from Osterstraße to Grosse Sortillienstraße.

The cross streets and connecting streets were named u. a. as Easter road to the sky direction with respect to the bride road on the Neuer Markt since 1821 (previously On Wetenkamp = Weizenkamp, 1689 Before the hospital since 1785 pig market ), Bride street after the bride designated glory Zwinger 1522 the Bremen city wall (the Stephanitorzwinger was groom ), Süderstraße in the direction of the compass referring to the Brautstraße, Heinrich-Bierbaum-Straße after Heinrich Bierbaum (1872–1957), director of the school at Leibnizplatz , Lucie-Flechtmann-Platz since 2003 after the legendary Fisch-Luzie (1850–1921), Kleine Johannisstrasse since 1626 after the first name, Langemarckstrasse 1937 to the place Langemark in the Belgian province of West Flanders , where the First Flanders Battle took place in 1914 , Hohentorstrasse after the Hohentor from around 1620 and Große Sortillienstraße after the vernacular name Sortie Poorten for a gate walled up there in 1764 in the city fortifications (French: sortie = exit); otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

Surname

The street is named after the direction of the compass. It is located west of the Brautstrasse and on the western side of the Weser and was the gateway to the old town in the Middle Ages.

development

The Alte Neustadt was laid out as a planned expansion of the city in the 17th century on the left side of the Weser and surrounded with fortifications. Already in 1522 the Herrlichkeitzwinger (bride) was built, the largest tower of the powder or kennel towers on the Herrlichkeit , a peninsula between the large and small Weser ; In 1739 this powder tower exploded. The fortifications from 1623 were removed from 1802. The area of ​​the Old New Town was initially only very sparsely populated. Until 1682 the baroque St. Pauli Church was built opposite the New Market and therefore the Old New Town . In 1737, the Little Roland monument , the Roland fountain, came. The main guard was in the center on the north side of Westerstrasse; it was canceled in 1817. The imperial post office is said to have been moved from Westerstrasse to Eschenhof on Domsheide around 1745 . The Grüne Kamp , later Grünenkamp , had been a large open space between Wester Straße , Grüne Straße and Alte Allee (today Langemarckstraße) since the 18th century .

The free school on Westerstrasse with up to 1000 students existed from 1854 to 1931 (today the Delmestrasse school ). It had to be closed because of dilapidation. The Bulthauptschule was located in the middle of the 19th century at Große Johannisstraße 182, Weserstraße 77 and Westerstraße. Friedrich Ebert , who later became President of the Reich, opened a pub on Brautstrasse in 1894.

The air raids in 1944/45 destroy parts of the old new town ; Westerstrasse was badly affected. Today (2007) 6145 people live in this district.

traffic

Since around 1920 the Westerstraße was included with the line 7 of the trams (Hartwigstr. - Hauptbahnhof - Markt - Woltmershausen ).
From 1946 to 1965 tram line 7 ran from Rablinghausen via Westerstrasse and Osterstrasse to Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse and Arsterdamm . The route from Westerstraße to Rablinghausen was taken over by bus route 24 in 1965 with an identical route.

The tram Bremen today (2019) passes through the Strait of Langemarckstrasse by line 8 (Huchting - Schwachhausen ( Kulenkampffallee )). Line 1 ( Huchting - Mahndorf ) crosses the street on Langemarckstraße and lines 4 ( Lilienthal - Arsten ) and 6 ( airport - university ) touch the street on nearby Friedrich-Ebert-Straße.

In transport in Bremen , the bus drives through 24 (Rablinghausen ↔ New Vahr -Nord) the road. The bus routes 26 ( Huckelriede - Walle ), 27 (Huckelriede - Findorff / Weidedamm ) and 63 (Hauptbahnhof ↔ Güterverkehrszentrum (GVZ)) touch the street on Langemarckstraße.

Buildings and facilities

On the street are u. a. three to four-story post-war buildings.

Notable buildings and facilities

Northwest side

  • No. 1 to 17: 4-sch. Residential and commercial buildings
  • No. 19 to 31: 3-ply Plastered residential and commercial buildings from around 1980/90 with a Hansa senior citizen center and shopping market and parking lot on the street
  • No. 33/35: 4-cut. plastered residential and office building as a corner house
  • Lucie-Flechtmann-Platz : 10,800 square meters, green central square for the new town
  • according to No. 37 with address Grünenstrasse 104-107: 2- to 3-storey. yellow clinker commercial building with halls
  • No. 81/83: 4-cut. Residential and commercial buildings
  • Corner building on Langemarckstrasse with green glass blocks, logistics center of the Becks Brewery according to plans by Schulze and Pampus, BDA Prize 2010; Until the 2000s there was a parking lot here and before that there was the Green Camp .
  • No. 93 / 93A: 5-gesch. Office building of the InBev / Beck's brewery

Southeast side

  • No. 2 at the corner of the Neuer Markt until 6 p.m. brick-built residential and commercial building from the 1980s / 90s
  • No. 22 at the corner of Süderstraße 2: 5-storey. Building with the International Graduatet Center of the University of Bremen
  • No. 30 to 36: 3-ply Commercial buildings, headquarters of the Hachez chocolate company founded in 1890
  • No. 38 to 52: 4-cut. plastered residential and commercial buildings
  • No. 58 to 80: 3- to 5-layered Residential and commercial buildings
    • No. 72/74: 5-cut. modern and differentiated new house
  • No. 100, corner of Langemarckstraße: 8-gesch. plastered residential and commercial buildings
  • No. 108 to 130: 3- to 4-layered Residential and commercial buildings

Art objects, memorial plaques

  • Roland fountain and Kleiner Roland from 1737 made of Obernkirchen sandstone by Theophilus Wilhelm Frese ; Donated by the Neustädter Bürgerkompanie , moved to the north end of the Neuer Markt in 1899 and to the south end in 1965
  • Stumbling blocks for the victims of National Socialism according to the list of stumbling blocks in Bremen :
    • No. 28 for Erich de Vries (1907–1942), Helene de Vries (1906–1942), Marga de Vries (1934–1942), Grete Harf (1881–1942), Siegmund Harf (1876–1942), Joseph Nathan ( 1884–1942), Paula Scherbel (1879–1942), all murdered in Minsk; Sophie Kramer (1891–?), Marie Kramer (1924–1?), Frieda Kramer (1922–?) All expelled to Poland in 1938 and declared dead.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Mörtel: reservations about new buildings in the south of Bremen . In: Weser-Kurier from January 14, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 24 ″  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 51 ″  E