The Ringstraße is a semi-circular, some 3 km long

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in the centre of

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and the city's busiest and most prominent street system. The Ringstraße is a four up to six lane street and part of

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. It encircles the old town of Wiesbaden on its southern and western boundaries.

Sections

The Ringstraße consists of three sections (referred to as ''Ringe''), individually named after personalities of

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Gustav-Stresemann-Ring

The Gustav-Stresemann-Ring is the southern end of the Ringstraße and is named after

Gustav Stresemann Gustav Ernst Stresemann (; 10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German statesman who served as chancellor in 1923 (for 102 days) and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929, during the Weimar Republic. His most notable achievement was the reconci ...

, 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

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Wiesbaden Central Station Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Wiesbaden, the state capital of the German state of Hesse. It is a terminal station at the southern edge of the city centre and is used by more than 40,000 travelers each day, so it is t ...

Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring

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

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Bismarckring

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

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whose actions fostered the unification Germany. The landscape is similar to the Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring section. The Ringstraße ends at the square ''Sedanplatz''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ringstrasse (Wiesbaden) Streets in Wiesbaden