The 30th and 31 January is in my calendar painted red, "says family researcher Bärbel eater. That this is so has to do with the story of her family. Because at 30 and 31 January 1981, the business of their parents at the railway arch 19 was torn down. This demolition was 30 years ago, a long business tradition under the railway arches on the railway road to the end. For when Gerhard Esser in 1955 his business there for fishing and camping supplies opened, he was not the only businessman who was among the 1865 built and opened in 1866 as a railway line in operation railway arches his quarters.
His daughter was born in 1961 remembers not only a legendary chip shop, an ice cream shop and the extinguishing arc of that time was really under the railway arch and more consumption on the beer and the traditional local pub, the market people.
As Esser was a child, her neighbors were acting under the railway arches, for example, leather goods, fruits and vegetables, clothes and food or money they earned their money as the repair of bicycles.
If you look at the colorful mix of industries under the railway arches and see how the railway arches look like today, one wonders in retrospect as to why in the 70's had the idea to open the railway arches and demolish the resident businesses, homes and warehouses . "It was then the opinion that the railway arches represent their shops a traffic-retardant structure," says Esser believed in progress and the car-friendly spirit of the 70s. "The driving force behind the project was the then mayor and Planning Committee Chairman Gerd Müller," the present city spokesman Volker Wiebel, whose parents remembered as enthusiastic campers were among the regular customers of family eater.
took the one year before the opening of the sheets 1980 with their annual Straße. Those who recognize considered the old pictures of the busy railway arches on some of the shops and living rooms.
you could save on the railway line live at all without being deaf? "Our 50 to 60 square meters large house was well insulated and removed," said Esser remembers her childhood under the railway bridge. The vibrations of the trains took them and their parents, as opposed to guests no longer true. And even their teachers who are convinced of it at a home visit, that you could make under the railway arch and total peace and homework, marveled at the relatively high living comfort.
In her research is Essers to an article from the Mülheim General Anzeiger of 24 July 1905 struck, that shows that you thought was already on the opening of the railway arches. There is to be read in part: "In the previous long time ago by the columns of various newspapers controversy concerning the transformation of the local railway station conditions was the transfer of the Rhenish Railway and called for the sake of beautifying the city through the removal of the railway bridge and the railway embankment."
documented early as 1890 A newspaper report of a business fire at the railway arches, the buzz in this town on the outskirts of town hall and watch market. And 1954 described the NRZ (see box), the resurrection of the mall under the railway arches. Yet emerged in the 1970s, when the Rhine-Ruhr-center and the City Center's first shopping centers and at the Castle Street is a pedestrian zone, this old business district appeared on the railway to remain literally at the track and was run over by the train of events to be . The opening of the railway arches that you wanted aufhübschen with vines, trees and flower boxes, we understand that time as part of the inner city renewal, in the course were also the railway road and its old-time Founder houses restored, rebuilt and renewed. After the opening of the railway arches 1982/83 railway tracks for today's tram line 102 were deployed in the meantime, however, goes underground for 13 years by the Ruhr Tunnel. In the 90 years was discussed again whether they could not revive the railway arches back with stores and apartments. This can be rejected but for cost reasons.
Klaus Beisiegel, who works as a consultant in charge of the issue Baudezernentin Ruhrbania can remember in this context, consider proposals, the railway arches as an art and cultural spaces to use. As part of the Ruhr Promenade construction area 3, there are, according to Beisiegel, plans a residential building next to the railway arches to grow, so that this house could be entered through the arches, while the old railway line then the cycling and walking would.
In April 1954 writes the Mülheim NRZ.. "The ugly arches of the railway embankment in the rail road seem to be decorated now pretty The first one, handicraft shop Gwendolyn Bushman It is intended under the archway 23, a pretty shop one. The city is once again very interested to create a so-called mall. Although the railway arches be used since a long time, they give off as sheds and garages not a pleasant picture. That it may create a favorable image for the city embankment front is to prove now. And will have also found imitators, so that maybe sooner or later the ugly face of the embankment completely transform. "
This article was published on 31 January 2011 in the NRZ
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