Albrechtstrasse (Berlin-Mitte)

Albrechtstrasse
Street in Berlin
Albrechtstraße 13/14, location of the film Run Lola Run
Basic data
place	Berlin
District	center
Created	19th century
Connecting roads	Schumannstrasse (north) , Schiffbauerdamm (south)
Cross streets	Marienstrasse , Reinhardtstrasse
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length	370 meters

The Albrechtstraße in Berlin district of Mitte is a short, to 1827 in the former Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt -scale residential street.

history

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt with Albrechtstrasse, 1905 ( Meyers Konversations-Lexikon )

On this area of ​​the former Spandau suburb of old Berlin, there were meadows and morass until the 18th century. Due to the Prussian settlement policy with industrialization beginning around the same time, an expansion of the city became necessary, and from 1825 the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt emerged. The new streets were named after the nobles of the time. The name of the Albrechtstraße derives from General Colonel Albrecht Prince of Prussia (1809-1872), the youngest brother of Emperor Wilhelm I , from. Official documents indicate April 16, 1827 as the date on which the name was assigned. More and more students, Charité employees , artists and intellectuals moved into the rented apartments - one spoke of a “ Latin Quarter ”.

During the revolution of 1848 there was said to have been a barricade on the corner of Marienstrasse.

On November 30, 1989, at Albrechtstrasse 8 (Stephan Hilsberg's apartment), a call to found a social democratic party in the GDR was issued.

Well-known former residents of Albrechtstrasse

• The Bulgarian resistance fighter Krystana Iwanowa Janewa (1914–1944), who is commemorated by a memorial plaque, lived at Albrechtstrasse 14 from 1942 to 1943 .
• On September 13, 1964, the US civil rights activist Martin Luther King was a guest in East Berlin . After two sermons in the Marienkirche and Sophienkirche , his visit ended in the restaurant of the Hospiz on Friedrichstrasse , today's Hotel Albrechtshof at Albrechtstrasse 8.
• From 1891 to 1893, the first Berlin apartment of the preacher of the Jewish reform community in Johannisstrasse, Wilhelm Klemperer and his family, was in the house in Berlin NW, Albrechtstrasse 20 . a. the student Victor Klemperer . From 1897 the numbering of the houses was changed. The number 20 in the years 1891-1893 corresponds to the house number 25 on the city map from 1910 Now the Reichsbahnbunker Friedrichstrasse is located at this point .

• Memorial plaques
• 

  Albrechtstrasse 8,
  Martin Luther King

• 

  Albrechtstrasse 14, Krystana Iwanowa Janewa

Overview of the individual house numbers

House number	Construction year	Renovations	Residential units	Object no.	Other Information	photo
Albrechtstrasse 5	1837			09095841	Johann Friedrich Koch
Albrechtstrasse 6	1830			09095842	Peter Etienne, ship owner and peat trader
Albrechtstrasse 7	1906			09095843	Arthur Schreiber
Albrechtstrasse 8	1909-1910			09095844	Central administration of the association for the Berlin city mission
Albrechtstrasse 9
Albrechtstrasse 10	1828
Albrechtstrasse 11
Albrechtstrasse 12	1896			09095847	Emil Beyer, bricklayer
Albrechtstrasse 13/14	1905			09010183	Koepjohann Foundation
Albrechtstrasse 15	1861			09095849	Koepjohann Foundation
Albrechtstrasse 16	1861			09095850	Koepjohann Foundation
Albrechtstrasse 17	1861			09095851	Heybach
Albrechtstrasse 18	1832			09095852	Maquet siblings
Albrechtstrasse 19	1827			09095853	Friedrich Balthasar Phnorr, master bookbinder
Albrechtstrasse 20	1887-1889			09095854	Magistrate of Berlin
Albrechtstrasse 21	1852			09095855	Magistrate C. F. W. Steinlein & A. W. Steinlein, leather manufacturer
Albrechtstrasse 22	1888			09095856	Hermann Böttcher, businessman
Albrechtstrasse 23	1885			09095857
Albrechtstrasse 24/25	1943			09011171
Albrechtstrasse 26	1910			09011172	City of Berlin
Albrechtstrasse 27	1873-1874			09011173	Borough

Media presence

• In 1998, the house at Albrechtstrasse 13 served as the backdrop for the film Run Lola Run 
• In 2012 the street served as the backdrop for the ZDF film Das Nanny .

Stumbling blocks in Albrechtstrasse

On October 20, 2014, the artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling stone in Albrechtstrasse 12 for the Jewish resident Doris Michaelis, who was deported and murdered during the National Socialist era . In addition to the initiator Sebastian Pflum, many residents of the street and guests, the Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander and the military attaché of the Israeli embassy in Berlin , Erez Katz, took part in the memorial event .

literature

• Dorothee Dubrau : Architecture Guide Berlin-Mitte. Volume 2. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938666-07-4 .
• Wolfgang Feyerabend: Right through the middle. The Friedrich Wilhelm City. Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7759-0463-8 .
• Hermann Zech: The Friedrich Wilhelm City in Berlin-Mitte. Berlin 1997.
• Hans Prang: Through Berlin on foot. Leipzig 1990.
• Heinrich Trost u. a .: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Capital Berlin I. Berlin (GDR) 1983.
• Dieter Bolduan u. a .: Berlin, capital of the GDR. Buildings under monument protection. Berlin (GDR) 1982.
• Albrechtstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1936, part 4, p. 1606 (“Streetscape” with all cross streets including the Handjeryplatz, which was repealed in 1965).

Web links

Commons : Albrechtstraße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Albrechtstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
• We were so free Retrieved on November 9, 2012 (video on the condition of Albrechtstrasse; chapter from 05:38). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ullrich Winkler: Foray through a street - rich in historical buildings. History and the present over a 150-year-old quarter. In: Neues Deutschland , 23./24. May 1981
2. ↑ koepjohann.de Chronicle Koepjohannsche Foundation. Retrieved on September 25, 2012. The source goes back to a poster in the Berlin city library. Unfortunately it is cited unclearly there: “After [Hartmann] on the basis of the plan of Berlin, designed and drawn by C. Zirbeck Berlin, 1828 [enlarged. Excerpt]. ”The“ Hartmann ”source has not yet been found.
3. ^ Berlin Mitte Geschichte - 1848 - Barricade fighting in Berlin . “Auguststrasse” blog, accessed on September 25, 2012.
4. ↑ SPD
5. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon - Mitte. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 , p. 83.
6. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke, Kathrin Chor: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein . Berlin-Mitte, p. 83
7. ↑ Cross the sector border without a pass. First Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative plaque inaugurated in Berlin-Mitte . king-zentrum.de; Retrieved November 23, 2012.
8. ↑ One day, one dream . In: Die Welt , September 13, 2014, p. 8.
9. ↑ Victor Klemperer: Curriculum Vitae, Memoirs 1 1881-1918 . Ed .: Walter Nowojski. 1st edition. tape 1 . Construction Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7466-5500-5 , p. 47 ff .
10. ^ A. Matschenz, M. Möller: HistoMapBerlin. In: Kartenwerk Straube, Kartenblatt IVA + IVB Edition 1910. Landesarchiv Berlin, 2011, accessed on June 15, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Object number in the monument database of the State Monuments Office Berlin
12. ↑ Oliver Gerards: Lolas Berlin . Retrieved November 23, 2012.
13. ↑ The nanny (TV 2012) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
14. ^ Marking the Scenes of Tragedy .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: NHK World (Japan) , February 13, 2015  

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '19.6 "  N , 13 ° 23' 4.4"  E