Savignyplatz
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 The Savignyplatz with bronze sculptures by August Kraus |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Charlottenburg |
| Created | 1870s / 1880s |
| Newly designed | 1926/1927 |
| Confluent streets |
Kantstrasse (crossing) , Knesebeckstrasse , Grolmanstrasse , Carmerstrasse |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , car traffic , public transport |
| Space design |
Ludwig Neßler , Erwin Barth |
The Savignyplatz is located in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg . The area, with seven road junctions today, was already listed in the development plan for the surroundings of Berlin ( Hobrecht Plan ) that came into force in 1862 and was named after the lawyer Friedrich Carl von Savigny in 1887 . In Berlin usage , the French name is stressed on the second instead of the third syllable.
The block space is crossed by three roads, where the Kantstrasse as the largest street in east-west direction divides the square. The other two streets are Grolmanstrasse (from northwest to southeast) and Knesebeckstrasse (north-south direction). From the northeast side of the square, Carmerstrasse leads as a one-way street to Steinplatz on Hardenbergstrasse .
In 1892, Savignyplatz was given a green area divided into two halves by Kantstrasse, based on designs by the municipal garden inspector Ludwig Neßler , which Erwin Barth redesigned in 1926 as a garden and recreational area. It is a dedicated public green and recreational area and is protected as a garden monument.
The Savignyplatz station (today's S-Bahn station ) on the Berlin Stadtbahn opened in 1896.
development
In the years 1926/1927, the Savignyplatz was redesigned by the city's horticultural director Erwin Barth and his successor in office with arbors and shrubs. After many subsequent changes, it was restored to its original shape on the occasion of the city's 750th anniversary , but without the previous playground. Since then it has been a garden monument .
In the mid-1880s it was planned to create a reversible basin for excursion steamers instead of a town square. It was supposed to become part of the South-West Canal, which was not built in favor of the Teltow Canal.
In 1931 two identical bronze sculptures Boy with Goat by August Kraus (1928) were placed on the northern half . When they were put back up in 1955, only one of the two was preserved - the second is a replica. The arrangement of the sculptures is symmetrical to one another, about ten meters apart, parallel to one of the symmetry axes of the square, Kantstrasse.
On the south half of the square is a kiosk from 1905 by Alfred Grenander, which was reconstructed in 1987 . Today it is also a listed building .
In 2007 the power house was reconstructed by the Berlin architect Christian Koch. The previously open passage of the house, designed in 1926, has been fitted with a contemporary art installation made of backlit glass.
Savignyplatz station
The Savignyplatz station , located on the south-western corner of the square on the brick arches of the city railway , opened on August 1, 1896. The youngest station on the Berlin Stadtbahn is now a listed building. It lies between the train stations Zoologischer Garten (since 1882) and Charlottenburg on Stuttgarter Platz (since 1890). The central platform can be reached via entrances in Schlüterstraße and Else-Ury-Bogen. The station was designed rather simply with a four meter high wooden gable roof on cast iron pillars (type "Wannseebad").
The Bleibtreustraße crosses the west of the square Kantstrasse and performs under the light rail route through south. The corresponding railway bridge is part of the pearl necklace made of light project , which is financed with funds from the Active Centers program . The associated artistic light installation was ceremoniously put into operation on September 27, 2013. The lighting system cost 200,000 euros, and AG City was able to raise sponsorship money for its permanent operation .
The S-Bahn station is surrounded by buildings, but almost all of them are firewalls . On the north side of the station, the fire wall was painted in 1986 by a group of artists around the artist Ben Wagin with the wall painting World Tree II as part of the renovation of the station . The art around the train station urges people to take their responsibility for the environment seriously.
The streets around Savignyplatz
The streets around Savignyplatz, as in the whole of City-West , were laid out at the end of the 19th century. There are no women's names on the square, as these streets were then named after humanities scholars, philosophers and lawyers (including the philosopher Leibniz , the writer Wieland and the historians Giesebrecht , Niebuhr , Mommsen , Sybel ).
The Bleibtreustraße in 1897 by the painter and graphic artist Georg Bleibtreu named. He lived in the nearby Knesebeckstrasse until his death. Carmerstrasse was named after the lawyer and politician Count Johann Heinrich Casimir von Carmer in 1892 . Kantstrasse was named after the philosopher Immanuel Kant (named 1887). Knesebeckstrasse was named in 1866 after the Prussian field marshal Karl Friedrich Freiherr von dem Knesebeck and Mommsenstrasse in 1897 after the historian and Nobel Prize winner for literature Theodor Mommsen . Schlüterstrasse was named after the sculptor and architect Andreas Schlüter in 1885 . Among other things, Schlüter designed the Berlin armory , large parts of the Berlin Palace , the Potsdam City Palace and the equestrian monument of the Great Elector in front of Charlottenburg Palace . The motivation behind the naming of Grolmanstrasse in 1874 can no longer be fully explained today: It was probably based on the lawyer and chief editor of the Prussian land law (which was revised by Savigny from 1820) Heinrich Dietrich von Grolman and not after his son, General Karl Wilhelm Georg von Grolman .
Memorial plaques on and around Savignyplatz
- Savignyplatz 5: George Grosz , draftsman and painter
- Bleibtreustraße 10/11: Mascha Kaléko , poet, lived here from 1936 to 1938. The Germany of that time drove her into exile and banned her books. She emigrated to New York in 1938 and lived in Jerusalem since 1966 .
- Bleibtreustraße 15: Tilla Durieux , actress; from 1903 at the Reinhardt-Bühnen in Berlin. Emigrated in 1933, returned to Berlin in 1952, lived here from 1966 to 1971.
- Bleibtreustraße 15: Alfred Flechtheim , art dealer, publisher and promoter of modern art; Founder and editor of the magazine Der Cross-Section , lived here from 1923 to 1933. In 1933 he had to emigrate. He died in exile in London .
- Bleibtreustraße 34/35: The first office of ORT (Organization-Rehabilitation-Training) founded in Saint Petersburg in 1880 , a Jewish professional training facility for the promotion of craft and agriculture among the Jews , was located here since 1921. In 1937, ORT opened its own technical school in Berlin which could partly be rescued to England in 1939.
- Bleibtreustraße 38/39: Nathan Zuntz , founder of aviation medicine, professor of animal physiology, lived here from 1914 to 1919.
- Carmerstrasse 12: Otto von Gierke , legal historian, wrote Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht and Anna von Gierke , head of the training center “Jugendheime e. V. ”(1898–1933) and member of the Weimar National Assembly , lived at Carmerstrasse 12, the former home of the Gierke family.
- Kantstrasse 30: Else Ury , writer, lived here from 1905 to 1933. The author of the youngest novels was expelled from the Reichsschrifttumskammer in 1935 , deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered there.
- Kantstrasse 152: Carl von Ossietzky , Nobel Prize winner, worked here from 1927 to 1933 as editor of the World Stage for Law, Freedom, Peace and International Understanding .
- Kantstrasse 153: Rudolf Diesel , the engineer and inventor of the diesel engine , lived and worked here from 1893 to 1894.
- Knesebeckstraße 11: Birthplace of the cartoon pioneer Lotte Reiniger with a memorial plaque
- Knesebeckstraße 12: Hedwig Courths-Mahler , novelist, lived here from 1914 to 1932.
- Knesebeckstraße 17: Emma Gumz (1899–1981) and Franz Gumz (1899–1945) lived here from 1900 to 1981. They were " silent heroes " who helped people of Jewish origin during the Nazi era by hiding or protecting them. Many owe their lives to them.
- Knesebeckstraße 32: Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek , composer and conductor, lived and worked here from 1902 to 1945.
- Mommsenstrasse 6: Leo Blech lived here from 1913 until his emigration in 1937. He was a composer and conductor, general music director at the State Opera Unter den Linden and at the German Opera House in Charlottenburg .
- Mommsenstraße 57: Günter Neumann , composer and author ( Die Insulaner ) was born here.
- Schlueterstrasse 21: Georgi Dimitroff , General Secretary of the Comintern , Bulgarian Prime Minister from 1946 , worked here from 1930 to 1933.
Culture and leisure
There are a variety of restaurants, bars, cafes, jazz clubs, cinemas and book shops around Savignyplatz and its adjacent streets.
Movies
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At Savignyplatz. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 43:34 min., Script and direction: Caterina Woj, production: rbb , series: Berliner Ecken und Kante, first broadcast: June 2, 2012, film information from the director.
Among other things with Aykut Kayacık , the “secret mayor” of Savignyplatz, and publisher Klaus Wagenbach .
- The rbb reporter - From 6 to 6 at Savignyplatz. Documentary, Germany, 2011, 30 min., Script and director: Caterina Woj, production: RBB , first broadcast: April 18, 2012 at RBB, table of contents .
Web links
- Savignyplatz at the Environment Agency - history, pictures and plans
- Garden monument Savignyplatz in the district lexicon
- Savignyplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Savignyplatz . Website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection , accessed on May 15, 2019.
- ↑ Entry on Savignyplatz in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Aro Kuhrt: A journey through Kantstrasse. Berlin, 2016
- ↑ Entry for the kiosk in the Berlin State Monument List
- ^ New construction of the historic entrance building on Savignyplatz. Press release from June 19, 2007
- ↑ Entry to the Savignyplatz S-Bahn station in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Information in the Berliner Zeitung of September 25, 2013, p. 19; Berlin / districts section
- ↑ Bleibtreustraße near Luise
- ^ Carmerstrasse near Luise
- ^ Kantstrasse near Luise
- ↑ Knesebeckstrasse near Luise
- ^ Mommsenstrasse near Luise
- ↑ Schlueterstrasse near Luise
- ↑ Grolmanstrasse near Luise
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 21 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 20.7 ″ E