Southwest Corso
| Southwest Corso | |
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| Houses on Liane-Berkowitz-Platz | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District |
Friedenau , Wilmersdorf |
| Created | before 1906 |
| Hist. Names | Black Forest Road |
| Connecting roads |
Bundesallee , Breitenbachplatz |
| Cross streets | (Selection) Stubenrauchstrasse, Laubacher Strasse, Wiesbadener Strasse , Geisenheimer Strasse, Bonner Strasse |
| Places | Liane-Berkowitz-Platz, Adam-Kuckhoff-Platz, Breitenbachplatz |
| Buildings |
Schöneberg III cemetery , artists' colony |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1650 meters |
The Südwestkorso is a 1650 meter long street in the Berlin districts of Friedenau and Wilmersdorf . The name refers to the direction of the street in which it runs between the Bundesallee behind the Ringbahn and Autobahn flyover out of town to Breitenbachplatz .
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, the building contractor Georg Haberland planned a connection from the Wilmersdorf S-Bahn station in the direction of the newly developed Dahlem domain . In the south- west direction, the expansion of Berlin also took place through the westward migration . The Friedenau municipal council decided with a majority of only one vote to lay out the district around the south-west parade. The road was laid out from 1906 to 1908 by the Berlinische Boden-Gesellschaft ; the Black Forest Road was previously designated along its route . Both street names were listed in Friedenau's address books until 1910. At the personal request of Kaiser Wilhelm II , a bridle path was laid out on the wide median, which from 1911 had to give way to trams (lines “O” and “69”) and later parking lots. To commemorate the unification, the Berlinische Bodengesellschaft donated a decorative fountain in 1911 , which was set up exactly on the border between the two districts. The bowl fountain with a diameter of about five meters was made according to designs by the sculptor Emil Cauer the Younger . Six naked child figures were grouped around the stone basin, about 50 centimeters high, cast from bronze; they splashed each other from the mouths and beaks of turtles and geese. During the Second World War , the figures were melted down as a metal donation from the German people . It was not until 1980 that the Schöneberg district office commissioned the sculptor Heinz Spilker to create new figures for this fountain based on the previous ones. The ornamental fountain was inaugurated in 1982 together with a flower bed in which it rests.
From Bundesallee to Laubacher Straße (Friedenau area)
The south-west parade begins at the corner of Bundesallee and Varziner Strasse. Behind Fehlerstraße you reach the former Hamburger Platz, which was located at the confluence of Stubenrauchstraße and Görresstraße (formerly Wilhelmstraße ) on the south-west parade at Offenbacher and Mainauer Straße. From 1909 to 1931 the 4.20 meter high deluge fountain, designed by Paul Aichele , was located on the square and later found its domicile on what was then Maybachplatz (today: Perelsplatz ). The square was abandoned because of the expansion of the former Friedenau cemetery (today: Schöneberg III cemetery ) to the south. In this cemetery there are numerous graves of well-known personalities - u. a. by Marlene Dietrich and Helmut Newton - to be found.
The street in the Friedenau part has a relatively good infrastructure for the local businesses and restaurants. Among other things, the Small Theater on the corner of Taunusstrasse has been domiciled in the former Korso cinema since 1973. The theater became known through the play The kissing makes almost no noise , which was given there with great success for years.
From Laubacher Straße to Breitenbachplatz (Wilmersdorfer area)
Behind Liane-Berkowitz-Platz and Adam-Kuckhoff-Platz diagonally opposite, the south-west parade changes from Friedenau to Wilmersdorf at the intersection of Laubacher and Wiesbadener Straße and touches the northwestern Rheingauviertel . This part of the street is dominated by the pure residential area without any noteworthy retail stores, which only increase again at the end of the south-west parade (towards Breitenbachplatz ). In this area, the south-west parade crosses the artists' colony , in which numerous artists had and still have their domicile.
The last piece of land on the western side of the street before Breitenbachplatz belongs to the Reichsknappschaftshaus .
In the mid-1980s, the first bicycle lanes in Berlin were laid out on the south-west parade as a model test in the course of the “Veloroute K” . These have proven themselves and are still available today.
Transport links
At the beginning and end of the south-west parade are stations of the Berlin U- and S-Bahn :
- At Bundesplatz station , the Ringbahn trains run with the S41, S42 and S46 S-Bahn lines. Until 1938 this station was called Berlin Wilmersdorf-Friedenau and then until 1993 Berlin-Wilmersdorf . The U9 underground station (from Osloer Straße to Rathaus Steglitz ) is located in the intersection of this transfer option ,
- The U3 trains , which run between Nollendorfplatz and Krumme Lanke , run at Breitenbachplatz .
At the intersection with Wiesbadener Straße , the Südwestkorso can be reached about half its length via the subway stations Rüdesheimer Platz (line U3, around 400 meters west) and Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz (line U9, around 600 meters east).
The 101 bus runs between the Breitenbachplatz underground station and Adam-Kuckhoff-Platz from the Turmstraße underground station to Sachtlebenstraße in Zehlendorf via the Südwestkorso. Except on weekends, the subway replacement line N3 also uses this section of the road in night traffic. Furthermore, the bus line 248 runs from Monday to Saturday, which runs from Alexanderplatz to Breitenbachplatz across the entire south-west parade. This line does not run on Sunday.
Web links
- Southwest Corso. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- The Small Theater on the Southwest Corso
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Werner Klünner (ed.): Berlin places. Photographs by Max Missmann . Nicolai, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-610-9 , p. 113. Illustration of the square from 1912.
- ↑ Day bus routes 100–128
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 16 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 10 ″ E