Albrechtstrasse (Berlin-Mitte)

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Albrechtstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Albrechtstrasse
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 .

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
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 5, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 6 1830 09095842 Peter Etienne, ship owner and peat trader
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 6, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 7 1906 09095843 Arthur Schreiber
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 7, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 8 1909-1910 09095844 Central administration of the association for the Berlin city mission
Berlin-Mitte Albrechtstrasse 8.JPG
Albrechtstrasse 9
Albrechtstrasse 10 1828
Berlin, Mitte, Marienstraß 10, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 11
Albrechtstrasse 12 1896 09095847 Emil Beyer, bricklayer
Berlin-Mitte Albrechtstrasse 12.JPG
Albrechtstrasse 13/14 1905 09010183 Koepjohann Foundation
Lola's Apartment.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 15 1861 09095849 Koepjohann Foundation
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 15, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 16 1861 09095850 Koepjohann Foundation
Berlin-Mitte Albrechtstrasse 16.JPG
Albrechtstrasse 17 1861 09095851 Heybach
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 17, Hotel Allegra.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 18 1832 09095852 Maquet siblings
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 18, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 19 1827 09095853 Friedrich Balthasar Phnorr, master bookbinder
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 19, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 20 1887-1889 09095854 Magistrate of Berlin
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 20, 26th and 179th Community School.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 21 1852 09095855 Magistrate C. F. W. Steinlein & A. W. Steinlein, leather manufacturer
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 21, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 22 1888 09095856 Hermann Böttcher, businessman
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 22, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 23 1885 09095857
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 23, tenement house.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 24/25 1943 09011171
Bunker Berlin.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 26 1910 09011172 City of Berlin
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 26, Embassy Ukraine.jpg
Albrechtstrasse 27 1873-1874 09011173 Borough
Berlin, Mitte, Albrechtstrasse 27, Friedrich-Realschule.jpg

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

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 archivesInfo: 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@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www3.nhk.or.jp  

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