Weigandufer

Noise background canal on the Weigandufer in October 2014

The Weigandufer is a street in the Berlin district of Neukölln . It leads along the Neukölln shipping canal from Fuldastraße on Weichselplatz to Teupitzer Brücke or Teupitzer Straße. The Weigandufer is with the house numbers 3–16 in the postcode area 12045 and with the house numbers 17–49 in the postcode area 12059.

The regional Innerer Parkring hiking route runs along a section of the banks of the Weigand .

history

At first there were streets 38 and 57 on the bank area. These were merged on May 2, 1904 and named after the architect and civil engineer Hermann Weigand during his lifetime in Weigand-Ufer. In 1907 the name was changed to the spelling Weigandufer .

Reallocation to Fahrradstraße

Weigandufer bicycle route

In August 2013, the pirate faction submitted an application to the District Assembly (BVV) to designate the bank of the Weigand as a bicycle street . However, the application was rejected in 2015 by both the transport and economic committees and ultimately by BVV by votes from the SPD and CDU. The district councilor Marko Preuss (SPD) justified the rejection by saying that residents had criticized the project because they feared the elimination of parking spaces and difficult accessibility and the ADFC expressed concerns about the crossing bridge traffic. The bicycle- friendly Neukölln network, which had previously emerged from the Volksentscheid Fahrrad initiative , then started its first campaign with a campaign for the Weigandufer as a bicycle street. After the district councilors had received numerous letters from citizens, the application went back to the Committee for Transport and Civil Engineering, which recommended that BVV approve it on January 6, 2016. It was then unanimously adopted by BVV.

Work began at the end of October 2018. Parking spaces were not lost. Since the road was already paved and designated as a 30 km / h zone, the renovation work was limited in particular to drawing on the pictograms and putting up appropriate signs. On November 16, the Weigandufer was officially opened as the district's second bicycle street. However, the road is still open to motorized traffic, which is criticized by cyclists as a disability. The bicycle road was interrupted at the bridges with crossing traffic.

On Weserstraße, the first bicycle street in the district was designated in 2017 on the section between Kottbusser Damm and Reuterplatz . There are plans to convert the section from Pannierstrasse and Pflügerstrasse into a bicycle route in Weserstrasse, thereby establishing a connection with the bicycle route on the banks of the Weigand.

Police checks to ensure compliance with the traffic regulations in force in Fahrradstraße Weigandufer were carried out twice in 2018 and ten times in the first half of 2019. During the checks up to August 2019, a total of one violation by illegal stopping, seven violations by illegal parking and one violation by parking with a duration of more than one hour with a disability were found.

Initially for the period of renovation work on the road in the years 2019 to 2020 (see below), the section between Wildenbruchstrasse and Elbestrasse was designated as a one-way street for motorized traffic in an easterly direction. District Mayor Martin Hikel announced in March 2020 that this traffic routing should be maintained even after the construction work, which would lead to "real added value for cyclists".

Renovation work from 2019 to 2020

Between 2019 and 2020, the Weigandufer from Fuldastraße to Innstraße is to be rebuilt as part of an urban development measure in the redevelopment area Karl-Marx-Straße / Sonnenallee . Planning for the renovation began in 2015. For this purpose, the commissioned city planning office first developed a preliminary study, the results of which were presented to the public on July 12, 2016. On December 18, 2017, a presentation of the drafts for the renovation took place in the district hall of the Rütli campus, and visitors were able to comment. The renovation work began on February 21, 2019, initially with clearing work.

For the previously unpaved riverside paths, paving is planned in which both slabs and mosaic stones are to be laid. The path is to be separated from the roadway with a planted strip bordered by a corten steel strip and the old bank railing is to be replaced by a new one. In addition, 32 new Kreuzberg brackets are planned for the parking of bicycles. A pedestrian crossing and the renovation of the pedestrian island are planned at the Wildenbruchstrasse intersection.

To carry out the work, the street was divided into the "East construction section" between Wildenbruchstraße and Innstraße and the "West construction section" between Fuldastraße and Wildenbruchstraße. The work in the east construction section is to take place from February 2019 to April 2020. There, the lane is to be reduced to four meters in width and closed to motorized traffic. Maintenance and construction vehicles from Berliner Wasserbetriebe are excluded. The previously existing walkway on the Wildenbruchplatz side is to be rebuilt and the green area at this point increased. A total of 250 square meters are to be unsealed. On the adjacent Innstraße, six parking spaces are to be set up alongside the green area. In addition, the erection of four concrete benches and six new park benches as well as planting with six sweetgum trees and two rock pears are planned for the east construction section . The work in the west section is scheduled for October 2019 to September 2020. An eight-meter-long concrete bench and six new park benches are to be set up there. The section is to be planted with four Kelgel-Silberweiden , as well as with "flowers, herbs and grasses as well as mixed perennials".

Buildings

Architectural monuments along the banks of the Weigand are a factory from 1913 with the address Thiemannstrasse 1 and the residential complex at Weigandufer 12-16 from 1925/1926 by the architect Bruno Taut . In the house at number 16 lived the trade unionist, politician and resistance fighter Franz Künstler , who is commemorated by a plaque attached there.

The Neukölln district heating plant , built in 1911 by the architect Reinhold Kiehl, is also located on Weigandufer 45-49 . The W. Biese grand piano and pianino factory was located at Weigandufer 18 .

Factory from 1913
Weigandufer residential complex 12–16
Memorial plaque Franz artist

The Weigandufer is connected to the Wildenbruch Bridge , the Elsensteg pedestrian bridge , the Treptower Bridge and the Teupitzer Bridge with the Kiehlufer via the Neuköllner Schifffahrtskanal .

Wildenbruch Bridge
Elsensteg
Treptower Bridge
Teupitz Bridge

Stumbling blocks

Stolpersteine were laid in front of house number 30 on September 9, 2017 in memory of Dina, Kurt and Stephanie Bujakowsky, who had lived there and were deported on September 9, 1942 and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.