Steinplatz (Berlin-Charlottenburg)
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 The central lawn after the redesign, the TU Berlin cafeteria in the background |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Charlottenburg |
| Created | 1885 |
| Newly designed | 1950, 2018 |
| Confluent streets |
Hardenbergstrasse , Uhlandstrasse , Carmerstrasse , Goethestrasse |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , road traffic , public transport |
| Space design | Bust of the baron from and to the stone |
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| Square area | 100 m × 70 m |
The Steinplatz is a square in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . It is located roughly in the middle of Hardenbergstrasse opposite the University of the Arts (UdK) and was named after the statesman and reformer Freiherr Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein , a contemporary of Hardenberg .
Three streets lead to the rectangular plaza. These are Goethestrasse on the west corner and Uhlandstrasse on the south corner . The Carmerstraße abuts on the southwest side and connects the stone space with the nearby Savigny place . Hardenbergstrasse runs along the northeast edge. There is the several bus lines of the BVG operated stop Steinplatz .
history
The stone square was built in 1885 and has - like the surrounding streets - some still Wilhelminian peripheral development on. In 1905 the original city celebrated its 200th anniversary, during which the Kaiser Wilhelm monument was inaugurated. At the same time, the desire arose to erect a memorial for the namesake on Steinplatz. As a result of fundraising, 18,700 marks were finally available for implementation (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 119,000 euros), which now led to the launch of a design competition. The sculptor August Gaul won first prize for a fountain with a group of pelicans and an elephant lifting trunk. Although the Elephant Fountain project did not show Baron von Stein, some visitors to the design exhibition found the model very good, while others criticized it. Christian Morgenstern took up the differences of opinion and wrote the five-stanza poem Vom Stein-Platz zu Charlottenburg , which states, among other things:
"[...] Wasn't stone a big animal? I think it was him. [...] You brave judges, let the value of the work decide the dispute! The stone that a horse gives us will clothe its stone place. [...] "
The outbreak of the First World War and the subsequent inflation prevented all design measures.
Rudi Dutschke met his future wife Gretchen Klotz in a café on Steinplatz .
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On the square, which was redesigned and greened in the post-war period, there is a memorial stone each for the victims of National Socialism and Stalinism (erected in 1951) as well as a bust of the namesake. The memorial stone for the victims of National Socialism was erected in 1953 by the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime on the north-eastern corner of the square on Hardenbergstrasse. Made of stones from the destroyed Fasanenstrasse synagogue with the inscription: "1933–1945 / The victims of National Socialism"; Above it, an emblem based on the triangular sign of the concentration camp prisoners with the stylized, flame-like letters "KZ". The stone is the earliest West Berlin memorial for Nazi victims.
Redesign 2017/2018
Between November 2017 and May 2018, the area was redesigned by the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district office . The basis for the redesign was the design by Leon Giseke, Lasse Malzahn and Lucas Rauch, entitled “Unlocking”, which envisaged a generous, clear design of the complex, an opening of the square towards the surrounding residents and a new staging of the memorials. In 2016, the landscape planning office Schirmer-Partner was commissioned with the specification of the design. The central meadow of the square is now accessible from all four sides by paths sprinkled with gravel , the natural stone edging of the plants to Hardenbergstrasse has been removed and replaced on the other three sides by a surrounding concrete step so that the lawn is around 30 cm lower. The planting on Hardenbergstrasse was renewed, but no longer offers any protection from the street noise. High -quality furniture (seating groups, benches and ping-pong tables ) could be installed along the paths through sponsorship from the neighbors and the commitment of 250,000 euros from the Berlin seat program of the Senate Department for Urban Development and Living . A total of 544,000 euros have been pledged for the renovation.
The opening of the square took place on August 17, 2018 by the City Councilor for Urban Development Oliver Schruoffeneger . The district plans to develop the Steinplatz together with the neighbors into a space for games, sports and art and to question the traditional culture of remembrance of the place in a contemporary way and to involve the residents. The aim is to open the square into the urban space. From the 1950s, the square in West Berlin had representative tasks, which can also be seen in the memorials for the victims of Stalinism and for the victims of National Socialism. In addition, the buildings of the Charlottenburg Art Academy and the student house of the Technical University opposite the square were central locations for socio-political, cultural and artistic events and debates immediately after 1945. This lost Berlin-wide importance of the Steinplatz should be taken into account.
At the beginning the artist collective mmtt (Stefka Ammon and Katharina Lottner) set up the simultaneous installation Steinplatz reloaded with 24 sculptures from 133 years of history of the square for a period of nine weeks . The monuments and memorials bear witness to events and people who are closely related to the Steinplatz and have in some cases already been forgotten, and thus deal with the history and present of the square.
- Steinplatz after the redesign
View of the Hoechst house
Central meadow with research pavilion
Benches
Monument to Freiherr vom Stein
District Mayor Reinhard Naumann and artist Stefka Ammon
Base of the former Flora monument
Surroundings of the square
In addition to the UdK, residents are also the shared canteen of the TU Berlin and the UdK. Four buildings on Steinplatz are under monument protection : the main building of the UdK, the Hotel am Steinplatz (formerly: Haus am Steinplatz , an Art Nouveau building by August Endell ), the Hoechst-Haus and a block of Wilhelminian-style apartment buildings between the junctions of Uhlandstraße and Carmerstraße.
literature
- Nicola Bröcker: The house on Steinplatz in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In: Nicola Bröcker, Gisela Moeller, Christiane Salge (eds.): August Endell 1871–1925. Architect and form artist, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, pp. 210–223.
- Ilse Eliza Zellermayer: Princess suite . My century in the hotel . Construction Publishing House , Berlin 2010.
- Emine Sevgi Özdamar: The Bridge from the Golden Horn . Kiwi Verlag 2015, p. 146 ff.
Web links
- Steinplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Steinplatz at the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Werner Klünner (ed.): Berlin places. Photographs by Max Missmann . Nicolai, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-610-9 , p. 24/25.
- ↑ Gretchen Dutschke: 1968. What we can be proud of. Hamburg 2018.
- ↑ Steinplatz. In: berlin.de. July 20, 2004, accessed September 8, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Opening of the Steinplatz with an art project and research pavilion. In: berlin.de. August 17, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 .
- ↑ At the beginning of December construction work began to redesign the Steinplatz. In: berlin.de. November 30, 2017, accessed December 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Steinplatz reloaded - mmtt - Berlin. In: steinplatz-reloaded.com. October 14, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 32 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 33" E