At the Kupfergraben

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At the Kupfergraben
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
At the Kupfergraben
At the Kupfergraben at the level of the Pergamon Museum
Basic data
place Berlin
Created around 1700
Hist. Names At Ludwigsgraben
Connecting roads
Am Weidendamm (west) ,
Am Zeughaus (southeast)
Cross streets Georgenstrasse ,
Bauhofstrasse ,
Dorotheenstrasse
Buildings Bode Museum , Pergamon Museum
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 500 meters
Am Kupfergraben, 1835
Magnus House , Am Kupfergraben 7

Am Kupfergraben denotes a nearly 500-meter-long street in the Berlin district of Mitte in the district of the same name . It is located in the historic Dorotheenstadt district .

Location and course

Am Kupfergraben runs as a riverside street along the eponymous Kupfergraben , a section of the Spree Canal , and the Spree between the streets Hinter dem Gießhaus and Geschwister-Scholl-Straße with the Ebertsbrücke . The Monbijou Bridge and the Iron Bridge connect the street Am Kupfergraben with the Museum Island .

history

The first development on Am Kupfergraben took place around 1580, as a contemporary illustration shows: “The Kupfergraben was called Ludwigsgraben for a time after its former owner, the secret budget councilor Ludwig . Most of the road takes 1,773 completed artillery - barracks [Nos. 1–3], across from the royal gunsmith's shop on the moat [No. 8]. "( Ernst Fidicin )

Most of the buildings were built in the 18th century, after the regulation of the Spreearms, in the southern area of ​​the street.

Am Kupfergraben has been used by trams since the 1930s , initially only as the final stop of line 75. Since 1997, the trams of lines M1 and 12 have been running on the street between Dorotheenstrasse and Georgenstrasse .

Buildings and Memories

  • The entrances to the Bode Museum and the Pergamon Museum can be reached via bridges at the Kupfergraben .
  • In the listed four-storey building Am Kupfergraben 6 there are or were (as of 2020) the living and office rooms of well-known personalities. Chancellor Angela Merkel lives here with her husband, chemistry professor Joachim Sauer . The SPD politician Ottmar Schreiner also lived in the house until his death in early April 2013 . Lothar de Maizière's law firm was also located in the house .
  • At Kupfergraben 7 is the also listed Magnus House (where the first Physical Society in Germany was founded in 1842), today's Berlin headquarters of the German Physical Society . In the 19th century it was inhabited a. Carl Graf von Brühl , the general manager of the Berlin museums, and the physicist and chemist Gustav Magnus . Some of the offices in the Magnus House were opened by the former Federal President . D. Richard von Weizsäcker , and since 1999 by the Atlantik-Brücke , a lobbyist association to which leading personalities from business, politics, the armed forces, science, the media and culture belong, who have a socio-political influence through the common network take and maintain contacts. In 2015, Siemens AG, which owns the Magnus House, Am Kupfergraben 7, applied for a new building to be built as a company representative in the listed Palaisgarten and initially received an approving preliminary decision. After three years, the new building project could be turned away, the garden was preserved in full size.
  • During the GDR era, the barracks continued to be used militarily as Friedrich Engels barracks ; it housed the Friedrich Engels guard regiment of the NVA . At the end of the 1990s it was assigned to the German Historical Museum and houses offices, warehouses and workshops. Since 2009, a new building has been under construction on her courtyard under the name Museum Courtyards .
  • As house number 10, Heiner Bastian had a modern building built according to plans by David Chipperfield from 2003 to 2007 and operated an art gallery in it. The Bastian family officially donated the three-storey Haus Bastian with its idiosyncratic window arrangement and large, light-flooded halls to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in October 2016, along with the exhibits that were already there.

Prominent personalities

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel lived from 1819 to 1831 in the house at Am Kupfergraben 4a, which was destroyed in the war . A plaque commemorating Hegel is attached to the neighboring house, Am Kupfergraben 5. The number 5 is often mistaken for Hegel's house. There was a dormitory of the "Institute for Foreigners" of the Berlin University, which existed until 1945. During the GDR era , the Humboldt University's Musicology Institute moved into the building. After a thorough renovation, the musicology seminar has been located in number 5 again since 2003. In 1825/1826 the mathematician Niels Henrik Abel also lived in the house at Am Kupfergraben 4a, where he spent a research-intensive time. A plaque has been attached to the new building since 2014 in memory of Abel.

literature

Web links

Commons : Kupfergraben (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kupfergraben from the series Berliner ABC . In: Berliner Zeitung , around 1980 (date cannot be seen on the present newspaper clipping)
  2. ↑ Alexander Osang (2001): The Iron Girl - Part 2
  3. ↑ [1]
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  7. ↑ The Stayer - Ottmar Schreiner is isolated in his group. But his theses sound modern again . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung No. 17, April 27, 2008, p. 14
  8. ↑ This is where the Chancellor lives. Of course, Joachim Sauer and his wife Angela Merkel could move to the Chancellery. But the two prefer to live in an apartment building in Berlin-Mitte. A visit to the Merkel quarter . In: Stern , December 22, 2005
  9. ↑ Atlantik-Brücke on lobbypedia.de
  10. ↑ Galeriehaus am Kupfergraben on baunetzwissen.de.
  11. ^ Press release from the German Mathematicians Association on Niels Henrik Abel and the commemorative plaque

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '12 "  N , 13 ° 23' 47"  E