Alice Heart Square
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.JPG) View from the south of the square in April 2012 |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Mahlsdorf |
| Created | as 18th place at the beginning of the 20th century |
| Newly designed | 2002/2003 |
| Confluent streets | Briesener Strasse, Hörselbergstrasse, Giesestrasse |
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| User groups | Pedestrians , children |
| Space design | renewed in 2002 (landscape architect Gabriele Wilheim-Stemberger) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 2450 m² |
The Alice heart Square is a square in Berlin district of Mahlsdorf ( Marzahn-Hellersdorf ). It was created as 18th place during the development of the then suburban settlement in the north of the municipality of Mahlsdorf (now part of Berlin) . In 2003 it was given its current name in honor of the German pacifist and journalist Alice Herz .
Location and history
The surrounding streets form an equilateral triangle on which the green space overgrown with trees and bushes was created. It is bordered to the northwest and northeast by hedges and a continuous iron wire fence. On the south side, on Giesestrasse, there are two entrances to the well-kept complex. An entrance area, initially designed with small stone mosaics, changes into gravel paths with benches.
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In 1999, as part of a redesign, a wooden sculpture of a couple was placed on the lightly modeled lawn. In the years up to the announcement of the planned renaming, the square was no longer maintained and literally degenerated into an eyesore . After this was made known to a broader public by a local newspaper, the responsible district office renewed the green area.
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The naming honors Alice Herz, whose family owned a house in Mahlsdorf-Süd, at Akazienallee 4/5. During the Nazi era , she left Germany with her daughter Helga in 1933 and, after several stops, finally found a new home in Detroit ( USA ). Here she later became active as a fighter against the Vietnam War in accordance with her convictions . On January 27, 2003, the day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism , the renaming was carried out by the Berlin mayor Karin Schubert in a ceremony in the presence of representatives of the district office and the Jewish community of Berlin.
The renaming also goes back to an initiative of the Berlin State Women's Council, which promotes the women's places project in the Berlin districts.
Web links
- Alice Heart Square. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The fourth estate . In: jotwede-online , 10/2002, p. 1; accessed on April 15, 2012 (PDF)
- ↑ Akazienallee 4/5 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1932, part 4, p. 2123. “A. Heart, owner ”.
- ↑ Karin Schubert pays tribute to the Jewish pacifist Alice Herz . Senate Department for Urban Development, press information; Retrieved April 15, 2012
- ↑ Women's places project . ( Memento of June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 36 kB) a compilation of city squares, sorted by district and named after women; updated 2011; Retrieved April 15, 2012
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 50.5 ″ N , 13 ° 36 ′ 26.9 ″ E