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List of streets named after Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler street sign being taken down in Trier during denazification

This is a partial list of streets and squares named after Adolf Hitler during the era of Nazi Germany.

The zeal with which German municipal authorities attempted,[citation needed] immediately after the seizure of power, to play their part in the "National Rising" (Nationale Erhebung) is shown by the practice of conferring honorary municipal citizenship on Hitler, and even more by naming a street (Straße), a square or place (Platz), a promenade (Anlage), an avenue (Damm or Allee), a stadium (Kampfbahn), or a bridge (Brücke) after the new chancellor. As early as March and April 1933, a wave of renamings swept through Germany's cities. There was a decree from the Reich Ministry of the Interior requiring that the most important street or central square in every city was to bear Hitler's name.[1] Most of the examples in the list come from this period.

The renaming of streets and squares was part of the personality cult surrounding Hitler and served as propaganda and a demonstration of power. In addition, many streets and squares were systematically renamed in the spirit of the regime during the Nazi era, by systematically removing names that were associated with criticism of the regime or the Weimar Republic.[2]

After 1945, all streets and squares in Germany bearing Hitler's name were renamed as part of denazification.

Places in Europe

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City Modern Country Name From To Pre-1933/Post-1945 name Source
Augsburg  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Königsplatz [3]
Andernach  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straßen Aktienstraße [4]
Amberg  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straßen 1933 1945 Untere Nabburger Straße [5]
Berlin (Charlottenburg)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz[a] April 21, 1933 July 31, 1947 [6][7]
Berlin  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Sport-Platz At the Ostpreussendamm and Krahmerstrasse, opposite of Schlosspark Lichterfelde.

Now a football pitch. Still a stadium next to it.

Bad Wildungen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Brunnenstraße
Bratislava  Slovakia Hitlerovo námestie 1938 1945
  • Masarykovo námestie (1918–1938, 1945–1953)
  • Námestie 4. Apríla (1953–1989)
  • Hlavné námestie (1989–present)
Bremen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Brücke April 1, 1933 July 1, 1939
  • Große Weserbrücke (1895 bis 1933)
  • Lüderitzbrücke (1939, 1961) torn down
Bremen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Brücke July 1, 1939 March 30, 1945
  • Westbrücke
  • Stephanibrücke
Bremen (Hemelingen)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Rathausplatz
Bremen (Lesum)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz An der Lesumer Kirche
Bremen (Aumund)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Hammersbecker Straße
Bremen (Lesum)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Kellerstraße
Bromberg
(now Bydgoszcz) 		 Poland Adolf-Hitler-Straße Gdańska
Breslau
(now Wrocław) 		 Poland Adolf-Hitler-Platz Plac Mongolski
Breslau
(now Wrocław) 		 Poland Adolf-Hitler-Straße
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Straße
  • Mickiewicza
Budapest VI.  Hungary Hitler Adolf tér 1938 1945 Kodály körönd
Cilli
(now Celje) 		 Slovenia Adolf-Hitler-Platz Prešernova ulica
Cologne  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz
  • Platz der Republik/Deutscher Platz
  • Ebertplatz (after 1950)
Dortmund  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Allee Hainallee
Düsseldorf  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Graf-Adolf-Platz
Düsseldorf  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Haroldstraße
Engerau
(now Bratislava) 		 Slovakia Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1938 1945
  • Masarykova (1918–1938)
  • Benešova (1945–1948)
  • Stalinova (1948–1989)
  • Zadunajská cesta (1989–present)
Eppingen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Brettener Straße
Erlangen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Hauptstraße
Essen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Burgplatz
Essen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße
  • Kettwiger Straße
  • Viehofer Straße
Esslingen  Germany Adolf Hitlerplatz
  • –
  • Marktplatz
Euskirchen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Hochstraße
Festenberg
(now Twardogóra) 		 Poland Adolf Hitler Platz Plac Piastów
Frankfurt am Main  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Anlage Gallus-Anlage
Freising  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Obere Hauptstraße
Gera  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz
Gotenhafen
(now Gdynia) 		 Poland Adolf-Hitler-Straße Świętojańska
Graz  Austria Adolf-Hitler-Platz Hauptplatz [8]
Groß Glienicke
(since 1945 Berlin-Kladow) 		 Germany Adolf-Hitler-Allee Seekorso
Hagen  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1945
  • Ebertstraße (1945–1960)
  • function as main street and B7 taken over by nearby Graf-von-Galen-Ring and half of the street being destroyed in 1960;
  • Am Hauptbahnhof (1960–present)
Hagondange  France Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1940 1944 rue de la gare [9]
Hamburg  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Rathausmarkt
Hamburg (Winterhude)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Bebelallee
Hamburg (Altona)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Platz der Republik
Hamburg (Wandsbek)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Damm Friedrich-Ebert-Damm
Hamburg (Wilhelmsburg)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Wilhelmsburger Reichsstraße
Hanover  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz September 15, 1933 [citation needed][10]
Hanover  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Theaterplatz
Hanover  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Bahnhofstraße
Idar-Oberstein  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Hauptstraße
Hauptstraße Iglau
(now Jihlava) 		 Czech Republic Adolf-Hitler-Platz Masarykovo náměstí
Jägerndorf
(now Krnov) 		 Czech Republic Adolf-Hitler-Platz Hlavní náměstí (Main Square)
Karlsruhe (Neureut)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Welschneureuter Straße
Karlsruhe (Hagsfeld)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Schwetzinger Straße
Karlsruhe (Knielingen)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Neufeldstraße
Karlsruhe (Grötzingen)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Eugen-Kleiber-Straße
Kiel  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Neumarkt/Rathausplatz
Königsberg
(now Kaliningrad) 		 Russia Adolf-Hitler-Platz
Kassa
(now Košice) 		 Slovakia Hitlerova ulica Národná trieda
Kolozsvár
(now Cluj-Napoca) 		 Romania Hitler Adolf-tér 1941 1945 Avram Iancu Square, Cluj-Napoca[11]
Krainburg
(now Kranj) 		 Slovenia Adolf-Hitler-Platz 1941 1945 Glavni trg[b]
Krakau
(now Kraków) 		 Poland Adolf-Hitler-Platz 1939 1944 Rynek Główny[c]
Leipzig  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1933 1945 Karl-Liebknecht-Straße
Leslau
(now Włocławek) 		 Poland Adolf-Hitler-Platz Plac Wolności[d]
Linz  Austria Adolf-Hitler-Platz 1938 1945 Hauptplatz [12]
Lippstadt  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Lange Straße
Litzmannstadt
(now Łódź) 		 Poland Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1939 1944 Piotrkowska Street [13]
Loon op Zand  Netherlands Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1942 1944 Hooispoor (partial) The stretch east of the Horst which was part of the M.A.St (Munitions Ausgabe Stelle)
Luxemburg
(now Luxembourg City) 		 Luxembourg Adolf-Hitlerstraße Avenue de la Liberté [14]
Lviv  Soviet Union (now  Ukraine) Adolf-Hitler Platz 1941 1944 Проспект Свободи
Memel
(now Klaipėda) 		 Lithuania Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1939 1945
  • Präsident Smetona Allee[e] (before 1939)
  • Liepų gatvė(post 1945)
Mülhausen
(now Mulhouse) 		 France Adolf-Hitler-Straße rue du Sauvage[f]
Mülhausen
(now Mulhouse) 		 France Adolf-Hitler-Platz place de la Réunion
Munich (Pasing)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Avenariusplatz
Munich (Solln)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Allee Diefenbachstraße
Munich (Obermenzing)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Verdistraße
Munich(Untermenzing)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Eversbuschstraße
Munich (Allach)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Vesaliusstraße
Munich (Aubing)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Limesstraße
Munich (Lochhausen)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Schussenrieder Straße
Nitra  Slovakia Hitlerova ulica
  • Leninova trieda
  • Hitlerova ulica
  • Wilsonova ulica
  • Masarykova ulica
  • Erzsébet út
  • Tóth Vilmos utcza
  • Hosszú utcza
  • Štefánikova trieda (current)
Neuburg an der Donau  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1945
  • Luitpoldstraße/Luitpoldstraße (1945–2014)
  • Adolf-Hitler-Straße (2014–2016, inadvertently restored)
  • Luitpoldstraße (since 2016)
 [15]
Neumünster  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Großflecken [16]
Neumünster  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Kuhberg [17]
Nuremberg  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Hauptmarkt
Osnabrück  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Neumarkt
Osnabrück  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Bramstraße
Potsdam  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Allee Allee nach Glienicke
Potsdam  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Green space between Althoffstraße and Yorckstraße (today Kopernikusstraße)
Považská Bystrica  Slovakia Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1939 1945
  • Továrenská (-1939)
  • Stalinova (1945–1989)
  • Robotnícka (from 1990)
Reichenberg
(now Liberec) 		 Czech Republic Adolf-Hitler-Platz 1938 1945
  • Altstädter Platz (-1938)
  • Náměstí bojovníků za mír (1945–1989)
  • nám. Dr. E. Beneše (from 1990)
Riga  Latvia Adolf-Hitler-Allee 1942 1944 Brīvības bulvāris
Riga  Latvia Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1942 1944 Brīvības iela
Rome  Italy Viale Adolf Hitler Viale dei Partigiani
Saarbrücken  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1935 1945 Bahnhofstraße
Schönwalde-Glien  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße
  • Straße des Westens
  • Straße der Jugend (today)
Sofia  Bulgaria Adolf Hitler blvd. Булевард Евлоги и Христо Георгиеви (Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi Boulevard) [18]
Sulz unterm Wald
(now Soultz-sous-Forêts) 		 France Adolf-Hitler-Platz rue des Barons-de-Fleckenstein
Straßburg
(now Strasbourg) 		 France Adolf-Hitler-Platz place Broglie
Stuttgart  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Planie
Stuttgart (Birkach)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz Bei der Linde
Stuttgart (Stammheim)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Platz –
Stuttgart (Feuerbach)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Stuttgarter Straße
Stuttgart (Plieningen)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Paracelsusstraße
Stuttgart (Möhringen)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Laustraße
Stuttgart (Vaihingen)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße
  • Böblinger Straße
  • Hauptstraße
Stuttgart (Bad Cannstatt)  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn Neckarstadion
Tallinn  Estonia Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1942 1944 Narva maantee
Tarnowskie Góry  Poland Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1939 1944
  • ul. Parkowa
  • ul. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego
Tartu  Estonia Adolf-Hitler-Platz 1942 1944 Raekoja plats
Toruń  Poland Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1940 Aleja Świętego Jana Pawła II
Treuburg
(now Olecko) 		 Poland Adolf-Hitler-Platz Freedom square[g]
Trier  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße[h]
  • Nordallee (Western part) and Bahnhofstraße
  • now Theodor-Heuss-Allee and Bahnhofstraße
Újvidék, Hungary

(now Novi Sad)

 Serbia Hitler Adolf utca[i] 1941 1944
  • Улица краља Александра[j] (1918–1941)
  • Стаљинова улица[k] (1944–1948)
  • Улица Александра Ранковића[l] (1948–1966)
  • Улица народних хероја[m] (1966–1992)
  • Улица краља Александра[n] (1992–present)
Valkenburg  Netherlands Adolf Hitler-Allee 1942 1944 Kloosterweg
Varnsdorf  Czech Republic Adolf-Hitler-Straße 1939 1945
  • ulice Generalisima Stalina
  • Leninova ulice
  • Národní ulice
Warsaw  Poland Adolf-Hitler-Platz 1939 1944 Piłsudski Square,

formerly Plac Saski (Saxon Square, named after the Saxon Palace) 1818–1928, 1939–40, 1945–46

Weimar  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Karl-Liebknecht-Straße
Wien  Austria Adolf-Hitler-Platz 1938 April 30, 1945 Rathausplatz [19][20]
Wilhelmshaven  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße Paul-Hug-Straße
Zittau  Germany Adolf-Hitler-Straße

Places in the Americas

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City Modern Country Name From To Pre-1933/Post-1945 name Source
Yaphank, New York  United States Adolf-Hitler-Street 1930s Park Boulevard [21]
Campo Belo  Brazil Rua Adolpho Hitler 1931 Rua Almirante Barroso (1931-)
Rua Gil Eanes 		[22]

The planned community German Gardens in Yaphank, New York, was built on the former site of Camp Siegfried, which was owned and operated by the pro-Nazi German-American Bund. Until 1941, several streets were named after prominent Nazis, such as Adolf Hitler Street (renamed Park Street), Goering Street (renamed Oak Street), and Goebbels Street (renamed Northside Avenue).[21]

Before 1931, there are records of a street named Rua Adolpho Hitler in the Campo Belo district of Santo Amaro, Brazil – notably at a time when the Nazis had not yet come to power in Germany. Its name was changed in 1931 to Rua Almirante Barroso, but when Santo Amaro was merged into São Paulo the next year, the street was again renamed Rua Gil Eanes, due to a homonymous street in Brás. The street still retains Gil Eanes's name.[22]

Notes

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  1. ^ further renamings were planned for after the "Final Victory"
  2. ^ Main Square
  3. ^ Main Square
  4. ^ Freedom Square
  5. ^ Prezidento Smetonos alėja
  6. ^ ger: Wildemannstraße
  7. ^ plac Wolności
  8. ^ see picture above
  9. ^ Улица Адолфа Хитлера
  10. ^ King Alexander street
  11. ^ Stalin's street
  12. ^ Aleksandar Ranković street
  13. ^ National heroes street
  14. ^ King Alexander street

References

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  13. ^ Die Chronik des Gettos Lodz/Litzmannstadt: 1943. Wallstein Verlag. 2007. p. 334. ISBN 978-3-89244-834-1.
  14. ^ Land, Lëtzebuerger (2010-07-22). "Von der Avenue de la Liberté zur Adolf Hitlerstraße". Lëtzebuerger Land (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  15. ^ Viertbauer, Patricia (25 November 2020). "Eine Spurensuche in Neuburg". Donaukurier.de (in German). Retrieved 13 December 2022.
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  17. ^ ""Postkarte Adolf-Hitler-Straße"". museen-nord.de. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  18. ^ "Две поколения архитекти творят на "Евлоги Георгиев" 86 : : Novinar.bg". 2015-11-19. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
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