Antonplatz

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Antonplatz
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Place in Berlin
Antonplatz
Antonplatz
Basic data
place Berlin
District Weissensee
Created around 1874
Newly designed after 1945
Confluent streets Langhansstrasse ,
Max-Steinke-Strasse ,
Berliner Allee
use
User groups Pedestrians , cyclists , road traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Square area 45 m × 35 m

The Antonplatz is a scale in the second half of the 19th century main square in the Berlin district of Weissensee in the district of Pankow . It is located directly on Berliner Allee and covers around 1500 m².

location

The course is located in the Weißensee founding district . Langhansstraße goes from it in a north-westerly direction and Max-Steinke-Straße to the north .

history

Antonplatz with a view of Max-Steinke-Straße (right) and Langhansstraße with the Toni cinema (center) (2010)
Antoplatz on the Max-Steinke-Strasse side (2013)

When Gustav Adolf Schön - one of the founders of the municipal Weißensee (initially Neu-Weißensee) - needed capital for his land speculation, he was supported by his brother Anton Matthias Schön as much as he could. In his honor, the square was named Antonplatz around 1874 . The Chausseehaus is located on the north-east side of Antonplatz on the site plan from 1882 (the wheelhouse is 450 meters towards Berlin before the border of Berlin's Weichbild ). The routes of the Hobrecht plan run across the square: road 31 to the west and road 40 to the southeast. The square is on the Chaussee, and the roads that have been laid out are Traugottstraße (since 1878: Langhansstraße) to the west and Gäblerstraße (since 1918: Max-Steinke-Straße) to the north; in the opposite part of the French Quarter, streets are only being planned. The tram line of the Neue Berliner Pferdebahn to Alexanderplatz was opened in 1876. Little by little, various private individuals and construction companies built three to four-story town houses in the adjacent streets, the west side of the square and the area between Langhansstrasse and Berliner Allee still remained free.

On March 22, 1897 the foundation stone for the Kaiser Wilhelm I. -Monument placed on Antonplatz. It stood in a fenced-in green area. Between 1898 and 1903, the square was called Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz . Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz is included on the map from 1907 , with Anton-Pl. is added in brackets and smaller letters. In the address book of 1899, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz is mentioned between König-Chaussee 33a and 34, bordering on Gäblerstraße , in the previous year 1898 Antonplatz is still registered. A separate keyword is not given in either case. In the address book of 1903, the place name on König-Chaussee (north side), Langhansstrasse and Gäblerstrasse is Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz . In 1904 Anton-Platz had its own keyword under this name, König-Chaussee was named as the location . On January 15, 1907, the decision was made to electrically illuminate König-Chaussee between Lehderstrasse and Antonplatz and on Antonplatz itself. Until the merging of the two towns in 1905, Neu-Weißensee competed with the rural community of Weißensee and sought town charter. A plan from 1911 shows Antonplatz as a tram junction from Langhans- / Greifswalder Straße / Berliner Allee and the confluent Gäblerstraße.

movie theater

View across the square to the cinema, 1987

Today's Toni & Tonino cinema dominates the square . The main entrance of the cinema is on Antonplatz, the auditorium and the exits are on Max-Steinke-Straße. There are apartments on two floors above.

On Antonplatz several were at the beginning of the 20th century movie theater . The cinema with the name Toni on the northern edge of the square (Max-Steinke-Straße 43, postal address Antonplatz 1) was retained by name. In September 1920 the silent film cinema with 700 seats was opened as Decla-Lichtspiele , later it was called FA-Theater until the end of the war . The Soviet military administration expropriated the UFA and handed the cinema over to private investor Herbert Bendel in 1947, who ran it as the last private cinema leaseholder in East Berlin until 1979 . In 1948 the theater resumed theater operations after the war damage had been repaired. The state building supervision closed the cinema in 1979 because of serious defects. The Berlin District Film Directorate then took over the property and converted it into a premiere cinema. The foyer has been expanded, the number of seats has been reduced to 277 and a stage has been added for theater performances.

After the end of the GDR , the temporarily listed building stood empty and the Treuhandanstalt put it up for sale. The Munich-based director Michael Verhoeven bought it in 1992, had it renovated and a smaller auditorium, the Tonino with 102 seats , was created instead of the theater stage . Game operations could now be resumed. But despite constant private grants from the owner, losses were incurred, and the number of viewers declined: in 1997 there were 120,000 per year, in 2005 only around 35,000 tickets were sold. Finally, a fire in 2007 damaged the Toni and it had to be completely renovated. A clear improvement only occurred when the Toni was accepted into the Berlinale venues on the occasion of the International Film Festival in February 2010. For reasons of age, Michael Verhoeven sold the cinema and the property in autumn 2017 to Thorsten Frehse and Matthias Mücke, owners of the Berlin film distributor Neue Visionen , founded in 1997 . With the purchase, the new owners have committed themselves to operating Toni and Tonino as a cinema for another ten years. The film distribution program includes European cinematography, socially critical films, committed documentaries and young German-language cinema .

Open space south of Antonplatz

Addresses Berliner Allee, southeast of Antonplatz
Southern open space on Antonplatz, seen from the central island of Berliner Allee
On May 8, 1955, the 10th anniversary of the liberation, Young Pioneers started the peace relay for what was then the Weißensee district at Antonplatz

Apartment houses on Berliner Allee originally stood here. Damage to buildings from the Second World War and its clearing of rubble resulted in an open space opposite Antonplatz. From the early 1950s, the cleared ruin area was a differently designed green area, which was partly fallow and partly used as a parking area for customers of shops on what was then Klement-Gottwald-Allee.

In 1963, a bronze statue of The Gardener by the artist Karl-Heinz Schamal was erected in the open space , which has not existed since the redesign of the square. A fountain system designed by Margret Lüdtke has been in the immediate vicinity since 1979 . It was six meters in diameter and the water flowed over the facility from a central 2.50 meter high spiral ceramic column.

By pooling financial resources, the “ redevelopment area composers quarter ” was set up with a conservation ordinance in the mid-2000s . The landscaping of the unattractive green area was carried out for Antonplatz as part of the renovation work. The basis for the construction work on and around Antonplatz was created with the development plan XVIII-45 (western part of the public green area south of Antonplatz).

New water feature in the south, in March 2010 still without water

When the open space was completely redesigned between 2007 and 2008 for an amount of around 800,000 euros, the district officials had the largely dilapidated old well system removed. Instead, a 30 cm high water art based on a design by the sculptor and stonemason Matthias Heinz was put into operation on October 15, 2008. It consists of seven adjacent and opposing wedge-shaped pools with a total length of 12.8 meters and a width of 3.9 meters made of gray Herschenberg granite from Linz on a reinforced concrete base.

Immediately before the redesign of the green space, a row of buildings was placed in front of the gables of the old town houses and across Berliner Allee and a small business center was opened on the edge.

Official designation of the green area as a park or square

For the green area, which is designated as Berliner Allee 30, there were already several considerations and suggestions for naming in the 2000s. This is remarkable in that small, undeveloped street corners of Weißensee have also been named. So far (as of 2020) the area has remained undeveloped and unnamed. The location was ignored during the renovation of the composers' quarter.

  • The undeveloped designed open space should be named, but developed into a "tragedy about a place name". As early as 2007, a citizens' initiative suggested naming a square in Weißensee after the economic historian and economist Jürgen Kuczynski , who had lived at Parkstrasse 94 from the late 1950s until his death . The culture committee of the BVV suggested the "southern Antonplatz". The District Assembly (BVV) refused, because they saw in Kuczynski a "not undisputed personality" and the free space would be too "a prominent position in Weißensee". Officially it was the missing text for a memorial plaque. Instead, the green area at Kreuzpfuhl on Woelckpromenade was named "Jürgen-Kuczynski-Park".
  • On February 27, 2010, three district councilors from different parliamentary groups submitted an application to name the area after Tino Schwierzina . “As a long-time citizen of Weißensee, honoring Tino Schwierzina is an affair of the heart for many Weißensee and Pankow citizens. Initiated by the activities of the district office, public attention has turned to the renewed green space on the southern Antonplatz as a very prominent public place in Weißensee. This green area is not only located directly on Antonplatz, the most important square in Weißensee, but also forms the central access route to two important public institutions, namely the library and the Weißensee adult education center, and can therefore practically be regarded as the new Weißensee Forum. " 20th anniversary of Schwierzina's election as Lord Mayor of East Berlin. In December 2013, however, a street in Heinersdorf was named after Tino Schwierzina.
  • With the completion of the development of the edges of the green area, a district councilor of the Pirate Party submitted the following application on January 21, 2014 : “BVV Pankow should decide to use the“ nameless ”square opposite Antonplatz between Berliner Allee and Bizetstrasse according to Prof. Werner To name Klemke (Werner Klemke Platz). ”Klemke was a prominent book designer and commercial artist as well as a professor at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . He lived and worked all his life not far from Antonplatz at Tassostraße  21. On February 15, 2015, it was reported that the district office was working on a draft text of an annotated appraisal, which was based on a joint conversation between the members of Klemke and representatives of the district office and the Committee for Culture and Continuing Education. However, the area was not given this name either, but continues to be nameless (as of 2020). The BVV assigned the proposed place name for Klemke to a green area on the corner of Amalienstraße / Woelckpromenade, which is around 15,000 m² in size and owned by the district.

Land

Only plot 1 is addressed to Antonplatz, which stands for the Toni cinema with the postal address Antonplatz 1. All other areas and buildings surrounding Antonplatz are assigned to the neighboring streets. The corner building Max-Steinke-Straße 43, the building of the cinema, belongs to Antonplatz 1. Opposite are the properties at Max-Steinke-Straße 1–3 (continuous) and the corner building Berliner Allee on the east side of the square (N ° 39 and 39a). The two north-western corner houses are Langhansstrasse 1 and 135, with the latter adjoining Berliner Allee 27. When it was built to close the vacant lot, a standing part of the house on Langhansstrasse had sunk into the excavation pit. The green space on the south side of Antonplatz is located on the properties at Berliner Allee 28–34 (straight) and further on Bizetstrasse 21/23, but has recently been listed as Berliner Strasse 30.

Use of space

Painted gable of Berliner Allee south of the square. After renovation, a transverse house was added in 2007

On December 12, 1885, the first weekly market was opened on Antonplatz, a tradition that has been preserved.

Antonplatz is accessed by the M4 tram lines from Greifswalder Straße and M13 and 12 from Langhansstraße. Langhansstrasse branches off from the square in a north-westerly direction, while Max-Steinke-Strasse, which branches off to the north, is a dead end in the area of ​​the square. A gold broiler restaurant was established right on the corner of Antonplatz and Berliner Allee in 1969 , which continued to exist as a chicken corner until the 2010s after the political change and privatization in retail .

Since 1992, the district administration (still known as the Weißensee district) had its first ideas about the redesign of Antonplatz. Due to a lack of funding, these did not get beyond the planning stage.

The lively square on Berliner Allee is largely dominated by the cinema. A fresh market with organic products takes place on the paved area in front of it on three days of the week . The association for Weißensee e. V., an association for youth development, culture and monument protection in Weißensee and an interest group City Weißensee e. V. organize a citizens' festival every year, which takes place in changing locations such as the park on the Weißen See , but also on and around Antonplatz.

The central location of Antonplatz at the Weißensee business center on Berliner Allee and as a traffic junction gave rise to the fact that there is a taxi waiting area in addition to the heavy tram traffic. In the long term , the construction of the underground line U3 from Alexanderplatz through Weißensee to Karow and Hohenschönhausen is planned under Berliner Allee , which would mean the tunneling under the Antonplatz and a comprehensive renovation for the construction of the underground station. The line is indeed the land use plan included Berlin, but not currently part of the public transport development planning and not included in the public transport network priorities to 2030th

The name Antonplatz is often used as an advertising address . With the words “Anton, Platz!” To the picture of a sitting dog, a car dealership advertises 450 meters from the square. Likewise, a driving school 370 meters away in Langhansstraße uses the place name. The building for facilities of the Office for Culture and Education, such as the district library (Bizetstraße 41, Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek) and the music school (Bizetstraße 27), opened in 2005 in Bizetstraße, is called the Bildungszentrum am Antonplatz.

Poetry to Antonplatz

Peter Hacks mentioned Antonplatz in his poem Mistakes .

A pink cat,
a sky-blue mouse
meet at Antonplatze
and recognize each other.
[…]
And the mouse wants to hide,
and then it says: No need,
I never saw its mouth lick itself
A rose-red cat.

And the cat approaches softly,
blanks its tooth and straightens its beard,
Until it has preserved its peculiar
fur on its lunch dish .

And she lets the mouse live
again because of the blue,
And she says: There can't be
a sky-blue mouse.

And they walk from the place
without incident to home,
right, to Weissensee , the cat,
left, to Lichtenberg , the mouse.

Web links

Commons : Antonplatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

annotation

  1. ↑ Address books are given with the year of publication; the content naturally relates to the situation in the previous year.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Building age 1992/93: Area around Antonplatz
  2. ↑ Situation plan of Berlin with the Weichbilde and Charlottenburg . D. Reimer, 1882
  3. ^ Plan of Berlin . Berlin 1888, Eisenschmidt.
  4. ^ Postcard collection on Weissensee (historical postcard), year not specified. Accessed March 30, 2010.
  5. ^ Supplement to the address book for Berlin and its suburbs in 1907
  6. ↑ König-Chaussee . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1899, V. Theil, p. 233 (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz is also included for Langhansstraße with horseshoe numbering for property 1 and 153.).
  7. ↑ König-Chaussee . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1898, V. Theil, p. 216.
  8. ↑ Langhansstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1903, Theil V., p. 311 (The beginning of Langhansstrasse (No. 1 and 153) is on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz . If counting continuously, Gäblerstrasse 1 (east side) is to König-Chaussee and their house 63 (west side) ending at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz .).
  9. ↑ Antonplatz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1904, Part V., p. 329.
  10. ↑ Plan of Nieder-Schönhausen, Pankow, Heinersdorf and Weißensee. Publisher Georg Westermann (1869-1945) | dating 1911.
  11. ↑ Kino Toni & Tonino. In: Kinokompendium.de. Retrieved December 28, 2012 .
  12. ↑ a b c Stephan Strauss: To be continued . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 27, p. 11.
  13. ↑ Barbara Kollmann: Berlinale on tour through the districts. In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 15, 2010.
  14. ↑ Weissensee. Traditional cinema Toni continues. In: Berliner Zeitung , November 27, 2017.
  15. ↑ Zentralbild Schwadten 8 May 1955: Berlin celebrates May 8th, the 10th anniversary of liberation from fascism . On the afternoon of May 8, 1955, after the big rally on Marx-Engels-Platz, folk festivals took place everywhere in the individual city districts, so that this important day ended in joy and happiness for all Berliners. Shown here: In the district of Berlin-Weißensee, the young pioneers started the peace relay in the 1955 holiday camp ". The young pioneers at the start on Antonplatz.
  16. ↑ Damage to buildings 1945 ( Memento from November 10, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  17. ^ Website of the artist with the reference to the statue. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  18. ↑ Place there! Episode 6: Antonplatz . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 7, 2012. Accessed December 4, 2015
  19. ↑ After five years of urban renewal, the renovation of residential buildings in the composer's quarter has been successful
  20. ↑ Handover of the newly designed green area Antonplatz Süd on October 15, 2008. Report from the Pankow district office on the handover of the part of the square.
  21. ↑ Website of the Senate Department for Urban Development with details and a picture of the water art , also a picture of the previous fountain construction can be seen. Retrieved February 25, 2010
  22. ↑ Printed matter - VIII-0347 Ordinance on the maintenance of the composition of the resident population according to § 172 paragraph 1 sentence 1 number 2 BauGB for the area "composers quarter " in the district of Pankow of Berlin, district Weißensee, November 29, 2017
  23. ↑ Printed matter - VIII-0291 . Resolution on a conservation ordinance in accordance with Section 172, Paragraph 1, Clause 1, No. 2 of the Building Code (BauGB) for the "Composers Quarter" in the Pankow district of Berlin, Weissensee district, October 18, 2017
  24. ↑ Printed matter - VI-0865 . Preparation of the repeal ordinance for the redevelopment areas Weißensee - Composers Quarter and Prenzlauer Berg - Winsstrasse, 23 September 2009 and 14 October 2009
  25. ↑ Printed matter - V-0493 . Update of the urban renewal and action concept (framework plan) for the Weissensee redevelopment area "Composers Quarter", July 2nd, 2003
  26. ↑ Bernd Wähner: The time was ripe: Kuczynski's appreciation was discussed for eight years . In: Berliner Woche, September 12, 2015.
  27. ↑ Printed matter - VI-0904: Designation of the southern part of Antonplatz - BVV Pankow dated December 9, 2012.
  28. ↑ Document VI-0911 of BVV Pankow
  29. ↑ Printed matter - VI-0947: Name of the green area on the southern Antonplatz after Tino Schwierzina .
  30. ↑ The famous Weissensee graphic artist Werner Klemke becomes the namesake of a green area . In: Berliner Woche , January 13, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  31. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/article114642449/Wohnen-am-Antonplatz.html (link not available)
  32. ↑ Matthias Kunert: Trees should be on Antonplatz. District applies for EU funding for a redesign . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 29, 1999.
  33. ↑ Homepage of the commissioned planning company Complan
  34. ↑ Festival at Antonplatz. In: BZ , September 12, 2005.
  35. ↑ IG City Weißensee website ( memento from July 29, 2012 in the archive.today web archive ). Accessed on February 25, 2010.
  36. ↑ The difference in numbers between the two neighboring district facilities was created by building over the narrow, 120-meter-long previous plots 25–41.
  37. ↑ Cooperative locations. In: berlin.de. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
  38. ↑ Peter Hacks: The Flea Market - Poems for Children. Pictures by Klaus Ensikat , Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-359-01422-7

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 55 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 3 ″  E