List of streets named after Adolf Hitler explained

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, immediately after the seizure of power, to play their part in the "National Rising" (German: Nationale Erhebung) is shown by the practice of conferring honorary municipal citizenship on Hitler, and even more by naming a street (German: Straße), a square or place (German: Platz), a promenade (German: Anlage), an avenue (or), a stadium, or a bridge 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

City	Modern Country	Name	From	To	Pre-1933/Post-1945 name	Source
Augsburg		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Königsplatz	^[3]
Andernach		Adolf-Hitler-Straßen			Aktienstraße
Amberg		Adolf-Hitler-Straßen			Untere Nabburger Straße	^[4]
Berlin (Charlottenburg)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Reichskanzlerplatz (1904–1933, 1947–1963) Theodor-Heuss-Platz (1947–1963)	^[5] ^[6]
Berlin		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		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Brunnenstraße
Bratislava		Hitlerovo námestie			Masarykovo námestie (1918–1938, 1945–1953) Námestie 4. Apríla (1953–1989) Hlavné námestie (1989–present)
Bremen		Adolf-Hitler-Brücke			Große Weserbrücke (1895 bis 1933) Lüderitzbrücke (1939, 1961) torn down
Bremen		Adolf-Hitler-Brücke			Westbrücke Stephanibrücke
Bremen (Hemelingen)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Rathausplatz
Bremen (Lesum)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			An der Lesumer Kirche
Bremen (Aumund)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Hammersbecker Straße
Bremen (Lesum)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Kellerstraße
Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Gdańska
Breslau (now Wrocław)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Plac Mongolski
Breslau (now Wrocław)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Friedrich-Ebert-Straße Mickiewicza
Budapest VI.		Hitler Adolf tér			Kodály körönd
Cilli (now Celje)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Prešernova ulica
Cologne		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Platz der Republik/Deutscher Platz Ebertplatz (after 1950)
Dortmund		Adolf-Hitler-Allee			Hainallee
Düsseldorf		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Graf-Adolf-Platz
Düsseldorf		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Haroldstraße
Engerau (now Bratislava)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Masarykova (1918–1938) Benešova (1945–1948) Stalinova (1948–1989) Zadunajská cesta (1989–present)
Eppingen		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Brettener Straße
Erlangen		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Hauptstraße
Essen		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Burgplatz
Essen		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Kettwiger Straße Viehofer Straße
Esslingen		Adolf Hitlerplatz			– Marktplatz
Euskirchen		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Hochstraße
Festenberg (now Twardogóra)		Adolf Hitler Platz			Plac Piastów
Frankfurt am Main		Adolf-Hitler-Anlage			Gallus-Anlage
Freising		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Obere Hauptstraße
Gera		Adolf-Hitler-Platz
Gotenhafen (now Gdynia)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Świętojańska
Graz		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Hauptplatz	^[7]
Groß Glienicke (since 1945 Berlin-Kladow)		Adolf-Hitler-Allee			Seekorso
Hagen		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			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		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1940	1944	rue de la gare	^[8]
Hamburg		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Rathausmarkt
Hamburg (Winterhude)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Bebelallee
Hamburg (Altona)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Platz der Republik
Hamburg (Wandsbek)		Adolf-Hitler-Damm			Friedrich-Ebert-Damm
Hamburg (Wilhelmsburg)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Wilhelmsburger Reichsstraße
Hanover		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Hermann-Göring-Platz (1933–1945) Corvinusplatz (1945 -)	^[9]
Hanover		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Theaterplatz
Hanover		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Bahnhofstraße
Idar-Oberstein		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Hauptstraße
Hauptstraße Iglau (now Jihlava)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Masarykovo náměstí
Jägerndorf (now Krnov)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Hlavní náměstí (Main Square)
Karlsruhe (Neureut)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Welschneureuter Straße
Karlsruhe (Hagsfeld)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Schwetzinger Straße
Karlsruhe (Knielingen)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Neufeldstraße
Karlsruhe (Grötzingen)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Eugen-Kleiber-Straße
Kiel		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Neumarkt/Rathausplatz
Königsberg (now Kaliningrad)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Hansaplatz Ploshchad Pobedy (Victory Square) (now)
Kassa (now Košice)		Hitlerova ulica			Národná trieda
Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca)		Hitler Adolf-tér			Avram Iancu Square, Cluj-Napoca^[10]
Krainburg (now Kranj)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Glavni trg
Krakau (now Kraków)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Rynek Główny
Leipzig		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Karl-Liebknecht-Straße
Leslau (now Włocławek)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Plac Wolności
Linz		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Hauptplatz	^[11]
Lippstadt		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Lange Straße
Litzmannstadt (now Łódź)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1939			^[12]
Loon op Zand		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1942		Hooispoor (partial) The stretch east of the Horst which was part of the M.A.St (Munitions Ausgabe Stelle)
Luxemburg (now Luxembourg City)		Adolf-Hitlerstraße			Avenue de la Liberté	^[13]
Lviv	(now)	Adolf-Hitler Platz	1941	1944	Проспект Свободи
Memel (now Klaipėda)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Präsident Smetona Allee (before 1939) Liepų gatvė(post 1945)
Mülhausen (now Mulhouse)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			rue du Sauvage
Mülhausen (now Mulhouse)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			place de la Réunion
Munich (Pasing)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Avenariusplatz
Munich (Solln)		Adolf-Hitler-Allee			Diefenbachstraße
Munich (Obermenzing)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Verdistraße
Munich(Untermenzing)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Eversbuschstraße
Munich (Allach)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Vesaliusstraße
Munich (Aubing)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Limesstraße
Munich (Lochhausen)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Schussenrieder Straße
Nitra		Hitlerova ulica			Leninova trieda Hitlerova ulica Wilsonova ulica Masarykova ulica Erzsébet út Tóth Vilmos utcza Hosszú utcza Štefánikova trieda (current)
Neuburg an der Donau		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Luitpoldstraße/Luitpoldstraße (1945–2014) Adolf-Hitler-Straße (2014–2016, inadvertently restored) Luitpoldstraße (since 2016)	^[14]
Neumünster		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Großflecken	^[15]
Neumünster		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Kuhberg	^[16]
Nuremberg		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Hauptmarkt
Osnabrück		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Neumarkt
Osnabrück		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Bramstraße
Potsdam		Adolf-Hitler-Allee			Allee nach Glienicke
Potsdam		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Green space between Althoffstraße and Yorckstraße (today Kopernikusstraße)
Považská Bystrica		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Továrenská (-1939) Stalinova (1945–1989) Robotnícka (from 1990)
Reichenberg (now Liberec)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Altstädter Platz (-1938) Náměstí bojovníků za mír (1945–1989) nám. Dr. E. Beneše (from 1990)
Riga		Adolf-Hitler-Allee	1942	1944	Brīvības bulvāris
Riga		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1942	1944	Brīvības iela
Rome		Viale Adolf Hitler			Viale dei Partigiani
Saarbrücken		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1935	1945	Bahnhofstraße
Schönwalde-Glien		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Straße des Westens Straße der Jugend (today)
Sofia		Adolf Hitler blvd.			Булевард Евлоги и Христо Георгиеви (Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi Boulevard)	^[17]
Sulz unterm Wald (now Soultz-sous-Forêts)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			rue des Barons-de-Fleckenstein
Straßburg (now Strasbourg)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			place Broglie
Stuttgart		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Planie
Stuttgart (Birkach)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Bei der Linde
Stuttgart (Stammheim)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			–
Stuttgart (Feuerbach)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Stuttgarter Straße
Stuttgart (Plieningen)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Paracelsusstraße
Stuttgart (Möhringen)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Laustraße
Stuttgart (Vaihingen)		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Böblinger Straße Hauptstraße
Stuttgart (Bad Cannstatt)		Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn			Neckarstadion
Tallinn		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1942	1944	Narva maantee
Tarnowskie Góry		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1939	1944	ul. Parkowa ul. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego
Tartu		Adolf-Hitler-Platz	1942	1944	Raekoja plats
Toruń		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1940		Aleja Świętego Jana Pawła II
Treuburg (now Olecko)		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Freedom square
Trier		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Nordallee (Western part) and Bahnhofstraße now Theodor-Heuss-Allee and Bahnhofstraße
Újvidék, Hungary(now Novi Sad)		Hitler Adolf utca	1941	1944	Улица краља Александра (1918–1941) Стаљинова улица (1944–1948) Улица Александра Ранковића (1948–1966) Улица народних хероја (1966–1992) Улица краља Александра (1992–present)
Valkenburg		Adolf Hitler-Allee	1942	1944	Kloosterweg
Varnsdorf		Adolf-Hitler-Straße	1939	1945	ulice Generalisima Stalina Leninova ulice Národní ulice
Warsaw		Adolf-Hitler-Platz	1939	1944	Piłsudski Square,formerly Plac Saski (Saxon Square, named after the Saxon Palace) 1818–1928, 1939–40, 1945–46
Weimar		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Karl-Liebknecht-Straße
Wien		Adolf-Hitler-Platz			Rathausplatz	^[18] ^[19]
Wilhelmshaven		Adolf-Hitler-Straße			Paul-Hug-Straße
Zittau		Adolf-Hitler-Straße

Places in the Americas

City	Modern Country	Name	From	To	Pre-1933/Post-1945 name	Source
Yaphank, New York		Adolf-Hitler-Street	s		Park Boulevard	^[20]
Campo Belo		Rua Adolpho Hitler			Rua Almirante Barroso (1931-) Rua Gil Eanes

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).

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.^[21]

Further reading

• Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig (1991). The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, pp. 6–7. Macmillan, New York.

Notes and References

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4. https://www.onetz.de/oberpfalz/amberg/ambergs-problem-strassen-behalten-namen-id3104974.html Ambergs Problem-Straßen behalten ihren Namen
5. Web site: Adolf-Hitler-Platz in Charlottenburg . 2024-04-14 . berlingeschichte.de.
6. Web site: 2014-01-10 . Google apologizes for "Hitler" name on maps - CBS News . 2024-04-11 . www.cbsnews.com.
7. Web site: Köberl . Stadtportal der Landeshauptstadt Graz, Elisabeth . Der Grazer Hauptplatz . 2024-04-12 . Stadtportal der Landeshauptstadt Graz . de.
8. Book: Ginion . Guy . Hagondange et ses rues : De l'histoire à chaque pas . Borri . Innocent . Borri . Christine . Édition Europe Pierron Sarreguemines . 2003 . Hagondange . 174 . fr.
9. Web site: Luftschutzbunker-Hannover, Bunker in Hannover: Hannover im zweiten Weltkrieg (LSB-H: v2.08.04 - 2024) . 2024-04-14 . www.luftschutzbunker-hannover.de.
10. Web site: Képeslapok - Erdélyi képeslapok a múltból. 4 June 2013.
11. Web site: Linz . Stadt . Straßennamen . 2024-04-11 . Stadt Linz . de.
12. Book: Die Chronik des Gettos Lodz/Litzmannstadt: 1943 . Wallstein Verlag . 2007 . 978-3-89244-834-1 . 334.
13. Web site: Land . Lëtzebuerger . 2010-07-22 . Von der Avenue de la Liberté zur Adolf Hitlerstraße . 2024-04-12 . Lëtzebuerger Land . de.
14. News: Viertbauer . Patricia . 25 November 2020 . Eine Spurensuche in Neuburg . 13 December 2022 . Donaukurier.de . de.
15. Web site: Bluhm . Jens . Statt Hitler kam nur ein Dr. Gröbler . 2022-04-21 . shz. 24 September 2009.
16. Web site: "Postkarte Adolf-Hitler-Straße" . 2022-04-21 . museen-nord.de.
17. Web site: 2015-11-19 . Две поколения архитекти творят на "Евлоги Георгиев" 86 : : Novinar.bg . https://web.archive.org/web/20151119233929/http://novinar.bg/news/dve-pokoleniia-arhitekti-tvoriat-na-evlogi-georgiev-86_MTg5ODszOQ

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19. Web site: 2016-10-04 . 41 Tage. Kriegsende 1945 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161004000519/http://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen-kommunikation/veranstaltungen/websites/2015/41tage/41-tage-kriegsende-1945 . 2016-10-04 . 2024-04-11 . Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
20. Web site: Young . Michelle . 2 April 2015 . This Former Nazi Neighborhood on Long Island with Adolf Hitler Street Still Exists . 24 April 2020 . Untapped New York . Untapped Cities.
21. Web site: A Rua Adolf Hitler e outras ruas de alemães que mudaram de nome em São Paulo. saopauloantiga.com.br. 4 January 2013. São Paulo Antiga/Douglas Nascimento. pt. 16 March 2016.