Neustadt, Strasbourg

The Neustadt (German for New Town) is a district of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. In 2017, the heart of the district was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, as an extension of the site including the older city centre (Grande Île) and Strasbourg Cathedral.^[1] The district is a unique example of city planning, merging the Haussmannian model with elements of German architecture and urban planning.^[1]

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Neustadt, Strasbourg
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Avenue de la Liberté
Location	Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France
Part of	Strasbourg, Grand-Île and Neustadt
Criteria	Cultural: (i), (ii), (iv)
Reference	495bis
Inscription	2017 (41st Session)

Aside from the Imperial Quarter of Metz, the Neustadt district of Strasbourg contains the most complete and best-preserved examples of urbanism under the German Empire. In Germany itself, the comparable districts of such cities often suffered the bombardment by Allied forces in the Second World War.

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The Neustadt district was created by the Germans during the Reichsland period (1871–1918) to serve as a new city center. As opposed to the old town on the Grande Île, which in 1871 had more narrow and crooked streets and fewer squares than today, the new town was conceived along monumental boulevards and broad, rectilinear streets that were seen as modern, healthy and easy to police. In order to gain the necessary space, several belts of fortifications, mostly dating from the years 1519–1552, and 1630–1681, were torn down; remains of these are found with each archaeological excavation in the area.^[2]^[3] Many architectural styles were used for the construction of the Neustadt, mostly on a grand scale: Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival, Gothic Revival, Romanesque Revival, often a mixture of several or all of these styles (Historicism). At the end of the 19th century, at the same time as a new building material, reinforced concrete, a new and better defined style appeared as well: Art Nouveau.

The Neustadt comprises a number of public buildings and monuments that are today classified as Monuments historiques, such as:

Palais du Rhin, former palace of the German Emperors
University Palace (also the observatory, the zoological museum, the botanical garden etc.)
National and University Library
National Theatre of Strasbourg, the former Parliament building of Alsace-Lorraine
Palais de Justice
Palais des Fêtes
St Paul's Church
Strasbourg railway station
Hôtel Brion
Villa Schutzenberger
22, Rue du Général de Castelnau
56, Allée de la Robertsau

and also landmarks that are not classified as Monuments historiques (as of 2019), such as the Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church.

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Neustadt, Strasbourg

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