At the Berlin Museum

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At the Berlin Museum
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
At the Berlin Museum
At the Berlin Museum in the direction of
Alte Jakobstrasse
Basic data
place Berlin
District Kreuzberg
Created May 3, 1985
Connecting roads
Lindenstrasse (west) ,
Alte Jakobstrasse (east)
Buildings public art project art - city - space
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 150 meters

The Berlin Museum is a street in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . It connects Lindenstrasse with Alte Jakobstrasse .

Naming

The street got its name from the construction of the Berlin Museum in 1969. With the construction of the Wall , access to the previous Berlin Museum, the Märkisches Museum , was no longer possible, as it was now in the cordoned off eastern part of the city. So the old court in Lindenstrasse was quickly converted.

history

In the Second World War , the buildings in Friedrichstadt were largely destroyed. Only a few houses were left, even if some of them were badly damaged. With the construction of the Berlin Wall, this part of Berlin sank into a deep slumber .

In the late 1980s, the International Building Exhibition (IBA) saw a change in awareness. In the outskirts of West Berlin , social housing construction was primarily promoted. The aim was to regain the neglected areas as residential areas. The two sub-centers Berlin East with its historic city center and the new City West in Charlottenburg were to be connected by a city ​​ribbon . This band was provided for in the zoning and building use plan until 1986 . Due to the “political consolidation of the division of Berlin into two parts, the lack of development potential of the enclosed city and the decentralized, polycentric urban structure, the idea of ​​the city ​​band could not be realized. Despite the traditional importance of this urban area for the whole city, its outskirts to the West Berlin city center became increasingly clear. "

Nevertheless, in the course of the IBA, the residential park at the Berlin Museum was built on this street. However, the competition winners Hans Kollhoff and Arthur Ovaska did not build a perimeter block development here , as was typical in Berlin. Rather, urban villas were built here between 1984 and 1986, designed by several teams of architects from Germany, Switzerland , Austria , Czechoslovakia and Japan . This was intended to result in an “urban reorganization of the eastern edge of southern Friedrichstadt in the area of ​​tension between the Wilhelmine parts of the building of the former Victoria Insurance , the baroque Berlin Museum and the warehouse of the glass cooperative”. The project was awarded a gold plaque in 1983/1984 as part of the federal citizens' competition, it's about your community .

Attractions

A public art project called Kunst - Stadt - Raum of the Berlinische Galerie , which is located in the neighboring Alte Jakobstrasse, can be seen in the street . The artist Silvia Klara Breitwieser had a total of 32 sign objects placed on permanent loan to the Berlinische Galerie under the title Messages - The Berlin Embassy .

traffic

The connection of the street Am Berlin Museum to public transport takes place via the stop Jüdisches Museum in Lindenstraße, where the bus line 248 ( Ostbahnhof - Breitenbachplatz via Südkreuz ) stops.

See also

literature

  • Arnt Cobbers: Architecture Guide - The 100 Most Important Berlin Buildings. 5th edition. Jaron Verlag, Berlin April 2006, ISBN 978-3-89773-135-6 .
  • International Building Exhibition Berlin 1987 - Project overview. 1st edition. Building exhibition Berlin GmbH, Berlin 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ At the Berlin Museum. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  2. ↑ Kathrin Chod: International Building Exhibition (IBA) 1984/87 . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89542-122-7 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  3. ↑ Project overview international building exhibition. Berlin 1987, p. 92.
  4. ^ Residential park at the Berlin Museum . on Berlin.de, accessed on November 15, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Project overview international building exhibition. Berlin 1987, p. 178.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '10.2 "  N , 13 ° 23' 48.7"  E