Augustaanlage
street in Mannheim, Germany
The Augustaanlage (German pronunciation: [aʊˈɡʊstaʔanˌlaːɡə]) is a four-lane street in Mannheim that has been developed as an avenue and connects the Mannheim downtown via the Bundesstraße 37 with the Bundesautobahn 656 in the east as a main axis.
Course
The Augustaanlage runs between Friedrichsplatz with the Mannheim Water Tower and the city entrance at Europaplatz near the Mannheim Planetarium Mannheim. As an eastern entrance and exit road, it leads the traffic coming from the Bundesautobahn 656 via the Bundesstraße 37 from the direction of Heidelberg through the Oststadt into the city center and vice versa.
History
The Augustaanlage was named after the German Empress and Queen of Prussia, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. The part adjacent to the Friedrichsplatz was built in the first years after 1900. The development took place from the city to the east, the house numbers run accordingly. The avenue, planted with plane trees in two rows on a wide central strip, was laid out in the jubilee year 1907 (300 years of the city of Mannheim) for the Internationale Kunst- und großen Gartenbau-Ausstellung. With increasing development of the Oststadt, the street was extended eastward to its current length by the end of the 1920s. In 1935, the Reichsautobahn Mannheim-Heidelberg, today the Bundesautobahn 656, was reopened in the extension.
The initial spelling with hyphen (Augusta-Anlage) remained for decades and was only adapted to spelling in 1980 as Augustaanlage.
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