Augustenburger Platz
| Augustenburger Platz | |
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 Augustenburger Platz, 2012 |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Wedding |
| Created | 1908/1909 |
| Newly designed | 1962 |
| Confluent streets |
Amrumer Strasse , Föhrer Strasse |
| Buildings | Rudolf Virchow Hospital |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , road traffic |
| Space design | Hermann Mächtig , Johannes Plonsker |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 4500 m² |
The August Platz is a square in Berlin district of Wedding between the road and the Amrumer Föhrer street outside the main entrance of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital (Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum). It is bounded in the northeast by the Beuth University of Applied Sciences building complex , in the southeast by Föhrer Strasse and in the west by the access road to the hospital.
The square covers a total area of around 4500 m². It received its name on January 9, 1901 after the Danish town on the Baltic island of Alsen . Augustenburg was also the seat of the ducal line Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , from which Auguste Viktoria , the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II, came. The space with just one lot number is the postal address for the Rudolf Virchow Hospital and all other facilities on the clinic premises.
history
In the Hobrecht plan of 1862 the square was not yet explicitly planned, instead there was street no. 15a in Department XI on the edge of the development. From the early 1820s up to the 1850s was the here and on the south-west adjacent site Abdeckerei that in 1873 their place in the Müllerstraße was 81 and in 1908 by Rüdnitz in Bernau was moved. After the construction of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital began in 1899 , the road connection had to be provided. The square was probably planned by Hermann Mächtig in 1905 , but was not implemented until 1908/1909.
The first entry appears in the Berlin address book in 1902 after the place was named on January 9, 1901. In 1905 the place between Amrumer and Föhrer Straße with the adjacent "Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus" is listed.
According to the municipal decision of October 30, 1908, the landscaping of the square was waived and it was decided that it should only be filled with trees and benches and paved with gravel. In the following years the square developed into a traffic junction and received a toilet, a waiting room and a standard clock for the Berlin tram .
In 1936, business people and residents of the adjoining properties joined forces to submit an application to the horticultural department of the Wedding district, as the condition had rapidly deteriorated. They asked for the condition of the place to be improved, which had been disfigured by piles of sand, paving stones lying around, dog waste and a forgotten construction house, and for a representative place to be created with lawns and paths. The administrative director of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital joined the petition. City gardening director Josef Pertl planned a lawn with groups of trees and seats in 1939, the financing of which was approved in 1940, the second year of the war , but was no longer implemented.
post war period
After the end of the war , Augustenburger Platz served as a rubble dump . In 1948 the redesign of the square began, including the bunker ruins from World War II. The part of the square surrounded by a strip of vegetation was elevated as a result of the pile of rubble and was accessed by a staircase from Föhrer Straße and the opposite pointed end. There was a larger lounge area with a sandpit and a rectangular planting area that was surrounded by numerous benches.
With the construction of the U-Bahn line 9 from 1955 to 1961, the square was redesigned. The new street layout of Föhrer Straße with a connection to the newly created Luxemburger Straße and the Amrumer Straße underground station cut the square on its southeast side.
Current condition
In 1962, the then district gardening director Johannes Plonsker came up with a restoration plan that took into account the increased volume of traffic. Several parking spaces and a storage area for two-wheelers on the northern part of the access road in front of the hospital building were created on the access road. There is also a taxi rank and two snack bars here . Parallel to the access road, a heavily frequented path leads to the subway entrance, which is supplemented by an unpaved path across the square. The subway entrance and the elevator built in the 2000s further reduce the space. The remaining lawn area is further defaced by several distribution boxes and ventilation shafts for the power supply.
Even the small-scale design of the space cannot hide the impression of a remaining space. Only in the small square in front of the main gate of the hospital are four benches that invite you to linger. At the north end of the square, the kinking route of the access road has created a small triangular lawn that was already planted with flowers. Only the linden trees in front of the hospital building are reminiscent of the formerly more spacious design of the square.
literature
- District Office Wedding of Berlin (ed.): City squares in Wedding . Berlin 1991, p. 18 ff .
Web links
- Augustenburger Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Joachim Faust: Augustenburger Platz Archive »Weddingweiser. In: weddingweiser.de. August 31, 2012, accessed May 15, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augustenburger Platz. In: Bezirkslexikon. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , March 19, 2002, accessed on April 28, 2018 .
- ↑ District Office Wedding of Berlin (ed.): Stadtplatz im Wedding . Berlin 1991, p. 18 ff .
- ↑ Augustenburger Platz . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1902, III. Streets and houses of Berlin, p. 32.
- ↑ Augustenburger Platz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1905, III. Streets and houses of Berlin, p. 33.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '18.9 " N , 13 ° 21' 34.7" E