Old town Charlottenburg

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The Charlottenburg old town and the zoo , 1802

The old town of Charlottenburg ( pronunciation ? / I ) in Berlin is bounded by the Spree in the north, Nehringstrasse in the west and the axis Zillestrasse / Loschmidtstrasse in the south and east. The area of ​​the old town is the area that the formerly independent city of Charlottenburg comprised almost unchanged between 1720 and 1855, before it quickly grew in many directions beyond the boundaries of the old town. Today Charlottenburg is part of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . Audio file / audio sample

Emergence

Charlottenburg around 1724 in the Remarque site plan, geosted .
Former house of the Chamberlain Hassan at Schloßstraße 6, 1908

The oldest area of ​​the old town is the village of Lietzow . However, the city of Charlottenburg developed based on the Lützenburg Palace , which was built by Sophie Charlotte near the village of Lietzow in 1695 and which her husband Friedrich I named after her death, as did the neighboring settlement Charlottenburg . This settlement was divided again by the Schwarzen Graben , which was temporarily dammed up in this area to form a carp pond, into an eastern part with a church ( Luisenkirche on today's Gierkeplatz ) and market square (on Richard-Wagner-Platz ) and a western part with houses for the castle staff in the Schloßstraße area . Both parts were initially only connected by today's Schustehrusstraße .

The age of the buildings in Charlottenburg's old town around 1905

As early as 1705, shortly after the death of Sophie Charlotte, King Friedrich I granted the small settlement town charter. In the interests of a uniform cityscape, the builder Eosander von Göthe was not only commissioned to design a plan for the expansion of the city, the house he designed for the Chamberlain Hassan at Schloßstraße 6 was also specified as a binding house type for the expansion of the city .

Rediscovery of the old town

Farm house in Wilmersdorfer Straße 18

The historical importance of the old town with the mixture of farm houses and tenement houses from different periods before and after 1900 was only recognized around 1980. Important buildings were placed under monument protection. The old town was declared a protected building area in 1983 and funds were made available to modernize and repair the buildings. The oldest surviving residential building at Schustehrusstraße 13, in which the Ceramic Museum is located today , had just been recognized as such and placed under monument protection when speculators made an illegal demolition attempt on Christmas Eve 1983 and could only be stopped by the courageous intervention of the residents . The house was badly damaged in the process, but was rebuilt over the next ten years. Other houses from the early days of Charlottenburg designed according to Eosander's prototype are the buildings at Haubachstrasse 8 and Wilmersdorfer Strasse  18.

Old town tour

For the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987, the district built the Altstadtpfad , a tour with 16 stations at which important historical sites were presented on information pillars set up along the street. The old town path , which was limited to the south-western area of ​​the old town between the town hall and Schloßstraße, was replaced in 2008 by the old town tour , which now also has two stations in the north-eastern area with Alt-Lietzow and the swimming pool in Krummen Straße.

  • Impressions from the Charlottenburg old town

  • Ceramic museum in Schustehrusstraße

  • Wilmersdorfer Strasse at the corner of Haubachstrasse

  • Villa Oppenheim, today the local history museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

  • Luisenkirche at Gierkeplatz

literature

  • Renewal of the old town of Charlottenburg ( Berlin builds , 10), publisher: Senate Department for Building and Housing, 1990.
  • Stephan Brandt: The Charlottenburg old town. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-861-4 .
  • Wilhelm Gundlach: History of the city of Charlottenburg. 2 volumes. Springer, Berlin 1905; archive.org .
  • Dorothea Zöbl: Where the king was mayor. Charlottenburg city history since 1700. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-7861-2686-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leaflet ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 862 kB) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the history of the house at Schustehrusstraße 13 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  2. ↑ Altstadtpfad Charlottenburg (arr .: Marina Dzindzeck), manuscript, Berlin 1987.