Kemperplatz
| Kemperplatz | |
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 Birch trees on Kemperplatz |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Zoo |
| Created | 1858 |
| Confluent streets |
Tiergartenstrasse , Lennéstrasse , Ben-Gurion-Strasse , Bellevuestrasse , entrance and exit of the Spreebogen tunnel |
| Buildings | Sony Center |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport |
The Kemper Place is located in the Berlin district of Tiergarten of the district center . Lennéstrasse , Ben-Gurion-Strasse , Tiergartenstrasse and the connection to the Tiergarten Spreebogen Tunnel (TTS) all flow onto the square .
history
The Kemperplatz received its current name in 1858. After the seizure of the Nazi regime in 1933 he was after the Battle of Jutland in World War I in Skagerrak Place renamed. After the end of the Second World War , the square got its original name on October 25, 1946, reminiscent of Johann Wilhelm Kemper (1766–1840), the operator of the Kempers Hof tavern . Its fame began with the Berlin Architects' Association founded here in 1824 . The Lawless Society of Berlin , founded by the editor and philologist Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764–1829) , also met in Kemper's pub.
The naming coincides with the creation of the Tiergartenviertel in the middle of the 19th century: During this time, wealthy Berlin citizens began to build their huge villas there. One of the first was the actor and director August Wilhelm Iffland , whose house was built around 1800 - still in the middle of the forest. In 1877 the late classical Wrangel fountain was erected on Kemperplatz . In 1902, however, it had to give way to the Roland fountain and has since been located on the corner of Urbanstrasse and Grimmstrasse in the Kreuzberg district . With the monumental fountain, Kemperplatz in Wilhelminian Berlin formed the southern end of Siegesallee in the Großer Tiergarten . The Roland fountain was badly damaged in World War II and finally cleared around 1950.
present
The Kemperplatz is known as the location of the Philharmonie . It is one of the most important concert halls in Berlin (along with the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt ) and is the home of the Berlin Philharmonic . It began with the culture band idea developed in the 1960s , which provided for a loose grouping of cultural institutions at the location of the former Kemperplatz. With this, all the historic buildings and their foundations were demolished, and even the street layout was changed.
Between 1984 and 1991, Kemperplatz was the northern terminus of the M-Bahn test route. In 2000, the seven-building Sony Center was completed on the area between Potsdamer Platz and Kemperplatz or Ben-Gurion-Straße . Sony's German headquarters are located at the north-western tip of the complex on Kemperplatz .
literature
- Hans Ludwig: Berlin from yesterday . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1957, p. 87.
- Hans Ohff, Rainer Höynck (Ed.): The Berlin Book . Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87776-231-X .
Web links
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Kemperplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Skagerrakplatz . In: Luise.
- District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein:
- Kempers Hof at potsdamer-platz.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kemperhof . In: General housing indicator for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1849, part 5, p. 293.
- ^ Ohff, Höynck: BerlinBuch , p. 208: Solitaires in the urban landscape: Scharouns Kulturforum
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 40 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 16.5 ″ E