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17-431: Elbchaussee is best known for its many stately homes and villas, framed by ancient trees and lush parks and gardens. Developed as a residential road in the 18th century, at times also center of a local recreational area, Elbchaussee today is still home to many of Hamburg's finest residences, restaurants and hotels. At a length of 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) and a traffic volume of 40,000 cars per day, it also covers functions as

34-447: A grid system between arterial roads. Urban planners often consider such roads when laying out new areas of development because infrastructure for utilities such as electric power distribution lines, trunk sewers and water mains can be built through the same corridor . Geest Geest ( German pronunciation: [ɡeːst] , Dutch : geestgrond [ˈɣeːstxrɔnt] , Danish : gest [ˈke̝ˀst] )

51-696: A homogenous allocation of villas on both street sides, with the exceptions of Schröder's Elbpark and Hindenburgpark. Teufelsbrück Ferry Pier, including a small marina , are located at the mouth of the Flottbek creek. At this point, Elbchaussee leaves the elevated plateau of the Geest , and briefly comes down close to the river shore. Opposite of Teufelsbrück, the Elbchaussee passes the Flottbek Valley, landscaped into Jenisch park , at 42 hectare by far

68-583: A local collector road and one of Hamburg's arterial roads . Since the time after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the area had a few country estates and summer retreats connected by a bumpy country lane . During the second half of the 18th century, with more Hamburg grand burghers , wealthy merchants and ship-owners establishing their homes along the Elbe shore, Elbchaussee became a fashionable residential address. Around 1780, and on private initiative,

85-588: A mixture of signaled intersections , roundabouts , traffic circles , or stop signs , often in the form of four-way stops . Two-way stops are generally used at intersections with local streets that favour traffic movement on the collector. In North America, a collector road normally has traffic lights at intersections with arterial roads, whereas roundabouts and two-way stops are more commonly used in Europe. Speed limits are typically 20‑35 mph (30‑60 km/h) on collector roads in built-up areas, depending on

102-576: Is a substantivisation of the Low German adjective güst , which means "dry and infertile". It is an Old Drift landscape, characterised by the sandy depositions of the Ice Age . In the depressions between the raised flats are wet meadows and, where drainage is poor, bogs . Geest lands are made up of moraines and sandurs . They are almost always next to flat marshlands , the geest being higher and better protected against flood but, compared to

119-817: Is a low-to-moderate-capacity road which serves to move traffic from local streets to arterial roads . Unlike arterials, collector roads are designed to provide access to residential properties. Rarely, jurisdictions differentiate major and minor collector roads, the former being generally wider and busier. Collector roads can vary widely in appearance. Some urban collectors are wide boulevards entering communities or connecting sections. Others are residential streets, which are typically wider than local roads, although few are wider than four lanes. Small-scale commercial areas can be found on collector roads in residential areas. Key community functions such as schools , churches , and recreational facilities can often be found on collector roads. A collector road usually consists of

136-546: Is a type of landform , slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany , the Northern Netherlands and Denmark . It is a landscape of sandy and gravelly soils formed as a glacial outwash plain and now usually mantled by a heathland vegetation on the glacial deposits left behind after the last ice age during the Pleistocene epoch. The term geest

153-530: The Gründerzeit years (ca. 1871–1900), other building styles were also applied, including various Revival styles , Art Deco and Art Nouveau (Jugendstil). With completion of modern infrastructure projects in the second half of the 19th century, the Elbchausee became popular as a local recreational area. On weekends and bank holidays, the new railway , tram and ferry lines brought large crowds to

170-402: The Elbchaussee and its beaches. In the 1890s the management of the promenade was transferred to municipal authorities. The Elbe suburbs were merged into the town of Altona in 1927, which in turn was merged into the city of Hamburg in 1937 . As recent as 1950, a renaming of the eastern half was carried out. Despite forming a unity in terms of both traffic and a landscaped urban space all along,

187-439: The degree of development and frequency of local access, intersections, and pedestrians , as well as the surrounding area (the speed tends to be lowest in school zones ). Traffic calming is occasionally used in older areas on collector roads as well. Collector roads can originate in several different ways. Most often, they are planned within a suburban layout and built expressly for that purpose; occasionally, they fill gaps in

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204-473: The largest of the Elbe parks. For the next one and a half kilometers, Elbchaussee runs close to the river. At Louis C. Jacob's Hotel, it leaves the Elbe shore and turns inland. After passing the rather large Hirschpark, the Elbchaussee winds into the narrow street net of Blankenese , finding its western end in continuation of Blankeneser Hauptstraße, not far off the Süllberg or Blankenese Ferry Pier. Many of

221-588: The left is Heine-Park, laid out as an English park in the late 18th century. Subsequent parks are Donner's Park and Rosengarten. These green spaces all have interconnecting perrons and stairways down to Neumühlen at the Elbe's shore. Neumühlen has a quay wall , then from the Neumühlen/Oevelgönne Ferry Pier onwards, the Oevelgönne shore has a natural sand beach . The section of Elbchaussee up to Teufelsbrück Ferry Pier features

238-475: The marsh, with poor soil for agriculture. Where the geest borders the sea directly, sand cliffs exist. The oldest settlements in Northern Germany and Denmark lie on geest, since it provided better protection against storm floods . Many important towns are on the boundary between geest and marshland where people could enjoy the flood-protection of the geest but still use the much more fertile soil in

255-477: The now public Elbe parks ( Elbparks ) used to be massive private properties. There are over 500 properties on Elbchaussee, approximately one fourth listed as cultural heritage monuments . The house numbering system follows a European scheme , with odd numbers for lots facing the Elbe, and even numbers for the opposite lots. [REDACTED] Media related to Elbchaussee at Wikimedia Commons Collector road A collector road or distributor road

272-617: The street was enhanced as a chaussée and managed as an exclusive toll road . The years between 1790 and 1840 saw a building boom on Elbchaussee. Villas and country houses from those years are identifiable by being named after the respective commissioning Hanseatic first families , and many of them likened to Royal residences. Typical for late 18th-century and early 19th-century European architecture , most of them were built in Neoclassical or Biedermeier style, surrounded by parks often inspired by English landscape design . During

289-538: The street's eastern half was until then called "Flottbecker Chaussee" or "Flottbeker Chaussee", only the western half "Elbchaussee". Since the 1990s a number of villas of the fin de siècle have been replaced by high end apartment buildings , mainly New Classical or Modern architecture . Within its length of 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles), Elbchaussee is a rather heterogeneous street. At its eastern end, Elbchaussee starts hardly noticeable as an extension of Altona 's Palmaille and Klopstockstraße. The first public park to

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