Kottbusser Dam

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Kottbusser Dam
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Kottbusser Dam
View from the northern end of the Kottbusser Damm near the Kottbusser Bridge in south direction
Basic data
place Berlin
District Kreuzberg ,
Neukölln
Created in the 16th century
Hist. Names Dresdener Heerstraße ,
Rixdorfer Damm (1838–1874)
Connecting roads Kottbusser Strasse (N) ,
Hermannplatz (S)
Cross streets Planufer,
Bürknerstrasse,
Sanderstrasse,
Pflügerstrasse,
Boppstrasse,
Lenaustrasse,
Weserstrasse,
Urbanstrasse ,
Sonnenallee
Places Hermannplatz
Buildings see → here
use
User groups Road traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 950 meters

The Kottbusser Damm forms part of the border between the Berlin districts Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Neukölln . The name Kottbusser Damm , which despite the different spelling is derived from the city of Cottbus , was first mentioned in 1874. In 1838 the street was called Rixdorfer Damm .

Location and course

The Kottbusser Damm begins in the north as an extension of the Kottbusser Straße coming from the Kottbusser Tor on the Landwehr Canal at the Kottbusser Bridge and runs straight to the southeast. The southern end of the street marks the Hermannplatz , here the Kottbusser Damm forms an intersection with the Urbanstraße and the Sonnenallee : The Urbanstraße runs from the west towards the Kottbusser Damm and continues east of the intersection in the Sonnenallee. The Kottbusser Damm is located with the entire street area and the western row of houses with the house numbers 1–36 in the district of Kreuzberg , the development on the eastern side of the street of the Kottbusser Damm with the house numbers 62–104 belongs to the district of Neukölln . The house number sequence follows the principle of horseshoe numbering .

traffic

The Kottbusser Damm is a six-lane main road with a green central reservation and three lanes each. Under the road which extends U8 of Berlin subway , the subway station Schönleinstraße this line is in the course of the Kottbusser dam. It was built in 1926/1927 according to a design by Alfred Grenander and is completely listed. From 1951 to 1992 the station was called Kottbusser Damm .

Until the end of April 2020, there were two lanes and one parking lane in each direction on Kottbusser Damm. Bicycle traffic facilities were not available. In 2017, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen submitted a motion to the district council meeting, according to which the parking lanes should give way to bike paths that are structurally separated on both sides and delivery areas accessible via the carriageway should be set up. In addition, “the crossing areas of Kottbusser Damm in particular are to be designed in such a way that cyclists are endangered as little as possible by vehicles turning.” The application was passed on May 10, 2017 by BVV. In 2018, the Berlin Mobility Act also came into force, after protected bicycle traffic facilities had to be set up on Berlin's main roads. At a demonstration by the citizens' initiative "car-free" on October 26, 2019 for more traffic calming, the building councilor of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district Florian Schmidt declared the intention to have the road rebuilt from summer 2020 so that a bike path protected with bollards would leave a lane for delivery traffic and a lane for motorized traffic. A currently vacant multi-storey car park at Hermannplatz will be used for parking in the future. During the COVID-19 pandemic , temporary pop-up cycle paths were set up on several streets in Berlin to create more space for safe cycle traffic. On April 23, Kottbusser Damm received such a cycle path on both sides, which was marked with a yellow line for construction site beacons. It was a provisional implementation of the bicycle traffic system already planned for there. Later, the cycle path is to be converted into a permanent cycle path with permanently installed bollards in accordance with the Mobility Act. Delivery zones, disabled spaces and taxi ranks will be set up on the right-hand lane. To compensate for the lack of parking spaces, the district had agreed a discounted parking price for residents with the adjacent parking garage on Hermannplatz.

Facilities, buildings and monuments

The residential development along the Kottbusser Damm was built in the early days of the company and has hardly been modernized or renovated over the years. Instead of the original high-quality retail stores, there are now several smaller - typical for Kreuzberg and Neukölln - mainly Turkish and Arab shops and restaurants on the ground floor. Around a third of the residents of this street are people with a migration background . The Legend of was common in Germany variant of the döner kebab in pita bread in the early 1970s in a Turkish restaurant sold at Kottbusser Damm first time.

There are three other architectural monuments on this street that are worth mentioning:

  • Number 2/3: a tenement house from 1910/1911 by Bruno Taut and Arthur Vogdt, rebuilt 1977–1980 according to plans by Hinrich and Inken Baller ,
  • Number 72 with Lenaustraße 1–4: a dormitory from the years 1911–1913 of the Christian Association of Young Men based on a design by the architect A. Tieffenbach, rebuilt in 1989,
  • Number 90 with Bürknerstrasse 12-14 and Spremberger Strasse 11: residential complex by Bruno Taut and Arthur Vogdt from the years 1909-1910.

Stolpersteine were laid in front of house numbers 5, 7, 36 and 77 to commemorate people who were persecuted during the National Socialist era . (See list of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Kreuzberg and list of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Neukölln )

literature

Web links

Commons : Kottbusser Damm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BD Schönleinstrasse underground station
  2. ↑ Printed matter - DS / 0129 / V - Safe cycle lanes and crossings on the Kottbusser Damm. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ Construction councilor Schmidt wants to rebuild the Kottbusser Damm. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ How Kreuzberg is using the corona crisis for bike paths. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Peter Brock (ed.): Berlin streets rediscovered. 33 forays through the capital. Jaron Verlag Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3-89773-114-2 ; Kottbusser Dam. The patient. ; Pp. 93-98
  6. ↑ BD Kottbusser Damm 2/3
  7. ↑ BD Kottbusser Damm 72, dormitory
  8. ↑ BD Kottbusser Damm 90

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 29.2 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 23"  E