Ahornstrasse 15a (Berlin-Steglitz)
The house Ahornstraße 15a is a residential and commercial building in the Berlin district of Steglitz . It was built in 1891 and is located between Schlossstrasse and Lepsiusstrasse . The building has been empty since 2013.
Construction and data
The building is a two-storey villa with a single-storey porch and a plastered facade. The round windows on the first floor were bricked up. There was a stage for live performances and there were rehearsal rooms in the basement for music lessons and workshops.
Functions
Steglitzer Reichsbanner
During the Weimar Republic was in Ahornstraße 15a the central Steglitz SPD - and Reichsbanner local "Schellhase". The resistance against the National Socialists and their events was organized from here. In Steglitz, resistance through the Reichsbanner was particularly necessary, as the clashes were concentrated in the busy, central area of Albrechtstrasse and Schloßstrasse. Demonstration trains often marched through Albrechtstrasse to the Steglitz town hall .
The Steglitzer Reichsbanner's crew consisted of seven men, some of whom were on standby. The SA murder storm 33 from Charlottenburg was particularly active in Steglitz and caused fatal clashes. A roll command , consisting of a truck, was set up to protect events and to counteract.
Regarding the clashes with the National Socialists , it says:
“As socialists , we were completely different. (One of our songs said, 'Man is good'.) We just couldn't hit someone in the face! That is why the SA was superior to the Reichsbanner. These Nazis were better organized and more brutal; they were often not numerically stronger. "
As a result of the activities of the Steglitz Reich Banner, the members of the pub are led through the German Resistance Memorial Center as resistance fighters.
In December 1914, Wilhelm Pieck wrote to Karl Liebknecht that a camouflaged meeting was taking place at Ahornstrasse 15a.
time of the nationalsocialism
In 1931, the Schellhase pub was the place where the welfare funds for workers in the stone industry and stone road construction in the Greater Berlin and Brandenburg tariff districts were paid .
During the period of National Socialism one should in Ahornstraße 15a SS -Motorstaffel have been stationed.
End of war
After the end of the war , first Soviet and then American soldiers quartered themselves briefly at Ahornstrasse 15a.
Lodge house
From 1946 to 1957, Ahornstrasse 15a was the seat of the Great National Mother Lodge “To the Three Worlds” . On June 22, 1946, the "Ring of Eternity" was reopened. The lodge carried out extensive renovation work on the rented building, but this did not mean that the lodge had sufficient space available.
The inscription “Humanitati” (“committed to humanity”) can still be read below the roof, which indicates that it was used as a lodge house.
jazz saloon
In May 1960, the then youth senator Ella Kay , who also appeared as a waitress during the opening, opened the first West Berlin youth club at Ahornstrasse 15a . This mainly played live music, was financially supported by the Berlin Senate and supported by the Berliner Jugendclub e. V. operated. The aim was to use the “community-building forces” of jazz to educate young people and to get young people off the streets and out of the drinking halls, the establishment of which can also be traced back to the influence and success of the RIAS radio program Club 18 . As a result of the success of the jazz saloon , several more dance cafés were opened in Berlin.
Until the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the jazz saloon was also visited by young people from the GDR .
The Berliner Jugendclub e. V. ran other dance halls, such as the roof hatch in Kreuzberg , the Swing Point in Spandau and the Sloopy in Reinickendorf , with the jazz saloon serving as a model for these.
PopInn and Sonix
In 1967 the jazz saloon was renamed PopInn (spelling also: Pop Inn ). There were now regular concerts by progressive rock bands . The following bands performed e.g. B. in PopInn on:
- November 1974: Agitation Free
- March 1975: Space
- April 1975: Myth
At that time, the PopInn was a popular concert location together with the roof hatch in Kreuzberg and the Quasimodo .
In 2010, the PopInn was the last Senate youth disco to be closed after local residents protests. Subsequently, until 2013, another attempt was made to continue the concept of the youth disco under the name Sonix , but was then completely abandoned.
The youth discos were from 14 years; the PopInn was Berlin's only discotheque from the age of 14. The upper age limit was around 21 years. Admission was the equivalent of two euros and was open until midnight.
Planned use
After the end of the discotheques in Ahornstrasse 15a, the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district council decided to set up a center for girls and women in the building. This plan has so far not been implemented for financial reasons - renovation costs of 1.5 million euros were estimated.
A hotel and restaurant has been based there since 2015.
Web links
- Great National Mother Lodge "To the three globes"
- Rock in Berlin
- The music is over: the Berlin youth club has to leave the former POPInn after 50 years
literature
- Bernd Martin Radowicz: Places of (POP) ularian music in Berlin (West): from 1945 to 1990 , BoD - Books on Demand, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: Resistance in Steglitz and Zehlendorf . German Resistance Memorial Center, 1986 ( google.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
- ^ Germany (East) Ministry of Culture: Wilhelm Pieck: Writer and artist on his 80th birthday . Aufbau-Verlag, 1956 ( google.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
- ↑ Berliner Jugendclub e. V. - Projects for young people since 1960. Retrieved on December 9, 2017 (German).
- ^ A b Konrad Hugo Jarausch, Hannes Siegrist: Americanization and Sovietization in Germany 1945–1970: Konrad Jarausch, Hannes Siegrist (ed.). Campus Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-593-35761-4 ( google.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
- ↑ Nicholas Brautlecht: The PopInn is Berlin's only disco from the age of 14. There are no alcohol crashes there - drinking coma? Bobby car races! In: Berliner Zeitung , July 31, 2008.
- ^ Berliner Wochenblatt Verlag GmbH: No money for girls and young women . In: berliner-woche.de . ( berliner-woche.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '43.9 " N , 13 ° 19' 10.2" E