Ringstraße (Wiesbaden)
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The Ringstraße is a semi-circular, some 3 km long urban boulevard in the centre of Wiesbaden and the city's busiest and most prominent street system. The Ringstraße is a four up to six lane street and part of Bundesstraße 54. It encircles the old town of Wiesbaden on its southern and western boundaries.
Sections
[edit]The Ringstraße consists of three sections (referred to as Ringe), individually named after personalities of German history.
Gustav-Stresemann-Ring
[edit]The Gustav-Stresemann-Ring is the southern end of the Ringstraße and is named after Gustav Stresemann, a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. Gustav-Stresemann-Ring is some 950 metres long and joins the southern intersections with the Frankfurter Straße, New York Straße and the Berliner Straße, which leads as a dual carriage way to the Bundesautobahn 66.
Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring
[edit]The Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring is a wide, landscaped Avenue, with a central lawn and several lines of trees. This 1.4 kilometres long portion of the Ringstraße, 40 metres wide, is one of the road's widest sections. The Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring is named after the German emperor Friedrich III.
Bismarckring
[edit]At a length of 500 metres, the Bismarckring is the shortest sections of the Ringstraße. The name of the Bismarckring pays tribute to the Prussian-German statesman Otto von Bismarck whose actions fostered the unification Germany. The landscape is similar to the Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring section.
The Ringstraße ends at the square Sedanplatz.