Ryesgade, Aarhus
| Ryesgade or Strøget | |
Ryesgade
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| Length | 240 m (790 ft) |
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| Location | Town Center, Aarhus, Denmark |
| Postal code | 8000 |
| Coordinates | 56°09′06.9″N 10°12′17.9″E / 56.151917°N 10.204972°E |
Ryesgade or Strøget is a 240-meter-long street in Aarhus, Denmark. It is located in the central Town Center neighborhood and runs south to north from Banegårdspladsen to Søndergade and provides access to Rosenkrantzgade. Ryesgade is today one the busiest commercial pedestrianized streets in Denmark. It was created in 1873 as an extension to Søndergade to connect the Central Station to the rest of the inner city. Ryesgade is one of several streets in Denmark named for the Danish general Olaf Rye who became famous for his exploits during the First Schleswig War. Ryesgade is part of the 750 meters long pedestrian zone Strøget which runs from Aarhus Central Station to Aarhus Cathedral, consisting of the streets Søndergade, St. Clemens Street and Ryesgade. Strøget has about 47.000 visiotrs on a daily basis and some 14 million visitors annually, making it among the busiest commercial streets in Denmark.
In the 1850s Sændergade was being developed from the Aarhus River near the cathedral to Sønder Allé but the last stretch to the Central Station was only served by a small path going through a plant nursery. The city council was aware the area would eventually be incorporated in the city and in 1869 it sent a letter to the Danish Ministry of the Interior pointing out which areas south of the city were best suited for development. This included the plant nursery, which was owned but leased out by the city, and Amtsmandstoften to the east, owned by Aarhus County. In the early 1870s the city council established a committee to review parceling and development of the plant nursery and on 14 March 1872 it presented its findings to the city council. It was decided to establish a wide street from the open square Banegårdspladsen in front of the central station to Søndergade.
Through the later 1870s the street was developed, adjoining parcels sold off and new buildings erected. The final cost to the city was 13.6oo rigsdaler and the development proved a profitable to the city as more than 50.000 sq alen were parceled off for 1 rigsdaler per alen while the city had only collected 160 rigsdaler in taxes from the former plant nursery. The first years traffic to Store Torv still went through Fredensgade and Skolegade but when St. Clemens Bridge opened in 1884 Ryesgade and Søndergade became the main thoroughfare connecting the central station and the newly developing neighborhood Frederiksbjerg south of it to the old city center north of the river. In 1904 the first electrical tram system was put in.
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