The Augustaanlage 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.
6-706: The Augustaanlage runs between Friedrichsplatz with the Mannheim Water Tower and the city entrance at Europaplatz near the Mannheim Planetarium Mannheim [ de ] . 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. The Augustaanlage
12-660: 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 . Starting in spring 2011,
18-465: The completion of the Mannheim Water Tower in 1889. On the out-of-town side of the water tower is a water staircase that leads into a large basin with an adjacent fountain. The water feature, which operates from about the beginning of April to mid-October, is illuminated when darkness falls, with a colorful play of colors on weekends and holidays. The large fountain had first been put into operation on September 9, 1893. Using incandescent lamp technology,
24-419: The green space was partially redesigned with a continuous central walkway. The old sycamore trees were felled in several construction phases and replaced by 228 young trees by summer 2014, after most of the more than one hundred year old sycamore trees were affected by the fungal disease Massaria and could no longer be preserved. Financing was provided by a three-year fundraising campaign. The redesigned facility
30-560: Was inaugurated in mid-May 2015. In 2016, the street was transformed into an open-air exhibition called Allee der Innovationen (avenue of innovations) in which many inventions made in Mannheim were shown. Friedrichsplatz The Friedrichsplatz in Mannheim is one of the most completely preserved neo- Baroque and Art Nouveau structures in Germany. It was laid out in the years following
36-529: 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
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