Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse

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Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse
South area of ​​the street with a view of the new buildings built in the 1980s
Basic data
place Berlin
District Friedrichsfelde
Created before the 19th century
Newly designed After the village church was rebuilt in 1890, when the street was led around the church to the south.
The eastern section of the traffic route ended in the 1950s at the rear entrance of the park to Schloss Friedrichsfelde .
Hist. Names Dorfstrasse
(in the 17th century) ,
Wilhelmstrasse (from the end of the 19th century to 1976)
Connecting roads
Rummelsburger Strasse (west)
Cross streets Einbecker Straße,
Kurz Straße (only north),
Franz-Mett-Straße (only south),
Am Tierpark,
Charlottenstraße (only north)
Buildings 10 cultural monuments , Friedrichsfelde village church
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 1240 m

The Alfred Kowalke Street is approximately 1,240 m long road in the district of Friedrichsfelde of Berlin Lichtenberg district .

Location and course

The street runs centrally in the historic center of Friedrichsfelde , starting from the west on Einbecker Straße at the Friedrichsfelde underground station as a continuation of Rummelsburger Straße. Then it runs through the historic residential development eastwards, divides into a north and a south lane around the historic Anger , makes a little detour around the village church Friedrichsfelde , then crosses the street Am Tierpark , then bends a little north and ends in East at the complex of the Friedrichsfelde educational and administrative center in a nameless footpath. A short northern branch runs behind the newly constructed buildings of a retirement home.

The house numbers are assigned in a U-shape: from the west starting with number 1 to number 10. Eastwards over the intersection with Am Tierpark, the counting continues with number 14 and ends in the east with number 21, with numbers 18 and 19 being current not forgiven. The countdown on the north side of the street begins with number 29 on the northward branch of Kowalke Street. Behind the large intersection, the house numbers continue with 34 and end in the far west with number 42 at the corner house. After the many changes to the street layout, the church was given an address in the street Am Tierpark. On the north side of Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse, house numbers 22–28 and 30–33 are currently (April 2020) not assigned.

history

Today's Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse is the original main street in the village of Friedrichsfelde. Since the beginning of intensive development at the end of the 19th century, it was named Wilhelmstrasse after the first German Emperor Wilhelm I. On January 14, 1976, the traffic route was given its current name, with which the resistance fighter Alfred Kowalke , who was executed in 1944 , is honored.

Buildings

Historic Buildings

From 1921: Second community school in Friedrichsfelde, later became the 28th elementary school and then until around 1975 the 28th elementary school ; Photo from 2008
  • Number 30: first girls' community school, increased in 1900, extended by a north wing by 1921. In that year the school moved completely into a new school building on the neighboring property and was given the address Wilhelmstraße 29b. The school remained there, which changed its name several times, until it was demolished in 2014. In the 19th century, a gardener's house was located in the place of the north wing at the corner of Am Tierpark (then: Schloßstraße 4 ). Around 1910, the Friedrichsfelde community became the owner of the property. The resulting two-wing corner building served from then on as the seat of municipal offices in the Lichtenberg administrative district such as the building authority, the municipal treasury or a police station. The corner building was also used as a commercial building and police station in the GDR period up to 1990. After the fall of the Wall, some citizens' associations and the Lichtenberg Youth Consecration Committee settled there. The building has been almost empty since around 2010 and is to be sold (as of spring 2015). The Senate put it on the list of architectural monuments in the 1990s.
In 2020 there is an online offer from a real estate company offering an apartment for rent in Alfred-Kowalke-Stzraße. From this it can be concluded that the building was not demolished, but that the premises were converted. And an income tax aid association gives that as its address.
  • Number 34: Inspector's house (farmhouse): built in 1834 by the Treskow family, reconstructed in the 1960s based on old models
  • Numbers 35 and 38: tenement houses and restaurants from 1880
Last house in the northwest of Alfred-Kowalke-Straße, numbers 41/42
  • Number 39: Farmhouse built around 1880
  • Number 40a: Apartment building built around 1880
  • Numbers 41/42: tenement houses built in 1890

Other things worth mentioning in this street

  • Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 24: The health department of the Lichtenberg district office is located in this house with the food personal hygiene department .
  • In 2018 a new playground was inaugurated on this street, which was named Space Pirates. This means that a previously free area of ​​8444 square meters has been given a new use. In the long term, a district park should develop from this .
Berzarin birch and memorial stone
  • At the intersection at Am Tierpark / Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse, a memorial stone commemorates Nikolai Bersarin , the first Berlin city commandant in 1945, who had a fatal accident there in a motorcycle accident. A birch was later planted behind it (see picture).

traffic

At the western end of the street is the Friedrichsfelde underground station on the U 5 line . The 194 bus will pass through it from there to the Am Tierpark street.

Web links

Commons : Alfred-Kowalke-Straße (Berlin-Friedrichsfelde)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 3/4
  2. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 16
  3. ↑ Schools and education . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, part 3, p. 146.
  4. ↑ Citizens criticize the planned demolition of the old village school on Berliner Woche , 2013, accessed on April 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ Schlossstrasse 4 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, part 4, p. 1886 (house number counting began with the "1" at the entrance to the Treskow's castle , ie on Treskowallee ).
  6. ↑ Monument Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 30 / Am Tierpark 29, 1870, extension around 1900, remodeling after 1920
  7. ↑ 2-room apartment for rent on mapio.net; accessed on April 23, 2020.
  8. ↑ Lohnsteuerhilfeverein , Kowalke-Straße 30 , accessed on April 23, 2020.
  9. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 34
  10. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 35
  11. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 35
  12. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Ensemble on the village green in Friedrichsfelde
  13. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 39
  14. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 40a
  15. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 41
  16. ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 42
  17. ^ Homepage of the IZW Berlin .
  18. ↑ Health Department - Food Personal Hygiene , accessed on April 23, 2020.
  19. ↑ Berit Müller: New playground on Alfred-Kowalke-Straße , October 13, 2018, at www.berliner-woche.de, accessed on April 22, 2020.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 2.3 ″  E