Berliner Platz (Erfurt)

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Berlin Square
City of Erfurt
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 13 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 180 m above sea level NN
Area : 49 hectares
Residents : 6048  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 12,343 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 99091
Area code : 0361
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Location of Berliner Platz in Erfurt
Prefabricated buildings in the north of Berliner Platz
Sculptures decorate the pedestrian zone

The Berliner Platz is a district of Thuringia state capital of Erfurt . It is a prefabricated building area in Erfurt-Nord with 5,791 inhabitants (2014) on an area of ​​0.49 km².

Geography and traffic

The new building complex Berliner Platz is delimited to the west by Nordhäuser Strasse , to the south by Riethstrasse and the Radrennbahn , to the east by Gera and to the north by Strasse der Nations. Prager, Berliner, Warschauer and Hanoier Strasse are located in Berliner Platz. Neighboring districts are the Moskauer Platz in the north, the Rieth in the east, Ilversgehofen in the southeast and the Andreasvorstadt in the south and west. The terrain is level and lies in the Gera floodplain, it only rises slightly to the south-west; the altitude is about 180 meters above sea level.

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Although Berliner Platz is its own district, it is de facto seen by many Erfurt residents as belonging to the Rieth and is often included when speaking of the Rieth.

The district was built from 1978 in prefabricated construction with 4,000 new apartments. Three point high-rise buildings, two on Nordhäuser Strasse and one on Warschauer Strasse, each with 16 floors, serve as the dominant features of urban development. Eight eleven-story large blocks were also built on these two main axes, while smaller, five-story apartment blocks were built in the side streets. The eponymous Berliner Platz with the district center (school, shops, etc.) serves as the center of the quarter. A pedestrian zone was created there, which extends from the tram on Warschauer Strasse in the south to the former S-Bahn station in the north. There were pavilions for shops, but they could no longer hold their own, which is why the pedestrian zone now seems quite deserted. Various bronze sculptures in the style of socialist modernism were erected here to design the streets. On the eastern edge of the district runs along the Gera a green ribbon of parks that are used for local recreation. There is also a sports field there.

The district is very well connected to public transport. Via lines 1, 3 and 6 of the Erfurt tram there is a connection to the city ​​center and the main train station approximately every three minutes . The tram route from the city center to Rieth was built in 1974 and was extended to Magdeburger Allee in 2007 , while the connection to Europaplatz was built in 1978. Lines 3 and 6 run on Riethstrasse in the south, lines 1 and 6 on Berliner Strasse in the middle and lines 1 and 3 on Warschauer Strasse and Strasse der Kulturen in the north. Between 1976 and 1993, the district also had it via a railway connection at the Berliner Straße station of the Erfurt S-Bahn .

For private transport, Nordhäuser Straße is the main connection to the center as well as to Bundesstraße 4 and the Straße der Nations, which opens up the north of Erfurt. It is about three kilometers to the federal highway 71 . In addition, the Gera cycle path runs on the eastern edge of the district.

In 2009 there were a total of 161 buildings with 3,771 apartments in Berliner Platz, i.e. around 23 apartments per building. Of these, 246 were vacant, which corresponds to a vacancy rate of 6.5%. Only in 2006 have apartments been torn down, affecting 264 apartments as part of the Urban Redevelopment East program . This means that the previous housing demolition is less than in the neighboring Erfurt prefabricated building areas. A large number of the apartments have been renovated since reunification.

Population development

During the GDR era, around 8,500 people lived in the 4000 apartments in the district, i.e. around 2.1 people per apartment. After reunification, the standard of living increased and with it the living space used per person, and children who had grown up moved out, so that the population of Berliner Platz decreased. The increasing aging also leads to an increase in the number of people living alone or widowed, so that today only about 5800 people, i.e. 1.65 people per apartment, live in around 3500 inhabited apartments. In addition, the attractiveness of prefabricated buildings decreased and the middle age groups and family founders migrated. In return, since the University of Erfurt started teaching, more and more students have moved to the nearby campus in Nordhäuser Straße. As a result, two population groups are represented above average: pensioners and young adults, while the middle age groups and children live less often in Berliner Platz. With an average age of 50.1 years in 2009, it is one of the demographically oldest districts of Erfurt. Nevertheless, the Berliner Platz has been demographically stable since around 2005 due to slight migration gains and a falling birth deficit. In 2009, 342 foreigners lived in Berliner Platz, which corresponds to a share of 5.85% and is thus around 2.5% above the Erfurt average.

Data from the city administration of Erfurt as of December 31st.

year population Development
(1990 = 100%) 		Development in Erfurt
(1990 = 100%)
1990 8,473 100.0 100.0
1995 8,015 94.6 93.4
1996 7,853 92.7 91.9
1997 7,370 87.0 90.6
1998 7,042 83.1 89.3
1999 6,758 79.8 88.0
2000 6,395 75.5 87.6
2001 6,294 74.3 87.4
2002 6.229 73.5 87.2
2003 6,242 73.7 88.0
2004 6,099 72.0 88.4
2005 5,962 70.4 88.5
2006 5,975 70.5 88.4
2007 5,839 68.9 88.5
2008 5,861 69.2 88.5
2009 5,848 69.0 88.8
2010 5,835 68.9 89.2
2011 5,838 68.9 89.8
2012 5,844 69.0 90.4
2013 5,817 68.7 91.1
2014 5,791 68.3 91.7
2015 6,016 71.0 93.3
2016 6,048 71.4 93.9

elections

In the local elections in Thuringia in 2009 , a district mayor and a district council were elected for the first time in Berliner Platz. Before that, the district did not have its own political representative body.

Political party City Council 2009 State Parliament 2009 Bundestag 2013 Europe 2009
voter turnout 31.2 39.0 45.6 31.2
CDU 18.4 22.2 28.3 20.4
The left 29.3 40.4 32.5 35.0
SPD 33.3 19.4 20.2 21.3
Green 3.5 4.3 3.1 4.5
FDP 3.6 4.0 1.7 3.4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Housing stock 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 674 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erfurt.de

literature

  • Nitsch, Walter: Housing and urban development in Erfurt . In: Architektur der DDR , 3/1980, p. 153.
  • Escherich, Mark: Architecture and urban development in Erfurt and elsewhere - Professor Walter Nitsch turns 75 . In: City and history - magazine for Erfurt. 4/2002, p. 28.
  • Andres, Günter: Urban-architectural design of Berliner Platz in Erfurt, residential area Nordhäuser Strasse . In: Architecture of the GDR . 3/1980, p. 162.
  • Vogt, Birgit: "But otherwise life is good here ..." - Between the barefoot path and the boulevard - encounters at Berliner Platz . In: The Bridge - First Erfurt Street Newspaper. 96/2012, pp. 26-27.
  • Andres, Günter; Thormann, Klaus: residential area Nordhäuser Strasse . In: Architektur der DDR 3/1980, p. 526.
  • Inst. For urban planning u. Architecture; Council d. City of Erfurt; VE Housing Combine Erfurt (Ed.): Example solution 2 - Social Center Erfurt-Nordhäuser Strasse , pp. 23–24; 26th

Web links

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