Esplanade

Esplanade comes from French and originally meant a planarized, serving as a field of fire -free area in front of the Citadel, which served as a parade and parade ground.

Like other open areas of the fortifications, like the glacis along the city wall, the Esplanade by the Agreement of Stadtfortifikationen for urban planning measures free, and no later than in the early days of squares, parks, promenades, galleries and wide roads ( boulevards ) or used for Neugebäude. For example, bear the name of the former Esplanade Parade fields in Paris ( in front of the Hôtel des Invalides) and Riga, as well as streets in Hamburg, Wesel, Berlin, Ingolstadt, Neumünster and Helsinki.

Esplanade is also called general plazas and promenades in front of a large public building, later occasionally in gardens; while also in French outweighs the aspect of the place, the term in English what the today on German promenade - too French promener, walk ' - referred to. For the purposes of the promenade, the name is about Bad Love Stone, Gmunden, Bad Ischl, Altmünster.

Building:

• It is also the name of a cultural center opened in 2002 in Singapore, which is similar to the architecture of the durian fruit.
• Another Esplanade is located in front of the Allianz Arena in Munich, which forms the entrance and at the same time the roof of the underlying car parks with 153 meters wide and 600 meters long.

Esplanade also referred to a section of track from the former Berlin border area ( between West and East Berlin ), with the proviso that one - if you stopped with Lokschaden there - a red dimmed flashlight was on and reciprocatively to go to the next border post in order not to be shot as a presumptive Republic refugee.