Auguststrasse (Berlin)

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Auguststrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Auguststrasse
View towards Oranienburger Strasse
Basic data
place Berlin
District center
Created before the 19th century
Hist. Names Armesünder Gasse,
Armengasse,
Hospitalstrasse
Cross streets Oranienburger Strasse (west) ,
Tucholskystrasse,
Koppenstrasse,
Große Hamburger Strasse ,
Gipsstrasse,
Kleine Auguststrasse,
Joachimstrasse,
Kleine Rosenthaler Strasse (east)
Places Koppenplatz
Buildings Selected structures
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 950 meters

The August Road is a 950-meter-long street in the Berlin district of Mitte . It is located in the historic Spandauer Vorstadt district .

location

Auguststrasse begins at Oranienburger Strasse and runs eastwards to the confluence with Kleine Rosenthaler Strasse. The house numbers run in a horseshoe shape from house no. 1 on the corner of Oranienburge Strasse to the end and back to house no. 92. Auguststrasse is sometimes incorrectly assigned to Scheunenviertel , which only begins east of Rosenthaler Strasse .

history

Explanation of the name

Auguststrasse was named on July 1, 1833 after August, Prince of Prussia .

18th to 21st century

With the expansion of old Berlin from the 18th century, additional traffic routes were created in front of the actual city ​​wall . The street, which was renamed Auguststrasse in 1863, was previously called Armesünder Gasse (1708-1723), Armen Gasse (1723-1739) and Hospitalstrasse (1739-1833). Her name after August, Prince of Prussia and a military member, was given by the Berlin police chief on July 1, 1833. From the middle of the 19th century, the previous low half-timbered buildings disappeared and new, multi-storey apartment buildings were built. Mostly Jewish families moved here and shaped the entire residential area. It stayed that way until the Holocaust in the 1930s. In the street there was a Jewish hospital (house number 14-16) and a Jewish girls' school (11-13). Nine stumbling blocks on this street are now reminiscent of the bad times of the deportations during the Nazi era .

After the end of the Second World War , some houses were damaged or destroyed and they could be repaired or rebuilt step by step. In the years that followed in the GDR , repairs or even renovations were not carried out because, on the one hand, the ownership structure was often unclear and, on the other hand, the municipal housing administration (KWV) usually had little finances.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Auguststrasse became a target for squatters . In addition, institutions established themselves here that were considered a cult among tourists and locals , such as the Kunst-Werke (in a former margarine factory ). Gallery owners rented abandoned commercial properties such as the Eigen-Art art gallery , which opened in a former laundry. From 1993 to 2008 the Spandauer Vorstadt was a redevelopment area, which resulted in extensive redevelopment and modernization of reprivatised residential buildings, largely with subsidies. Many houses are still part of the municipal housing stock of the Berlin-Mitte housing association . As a result, conversions and interim uses by new tenants were often possible.

Some of the old buildings were given new stucco facades based on historical models. Inside, however, there was usually a new division because the furnishings in the apartments and the room sizes did not correspond to current ideas. The prefabricated buildings erected in the 1980s have also been preserved and modernized.

The ground floor areas quickly became a veritable art mile, with sixty art galleries listed here by 2014. Due to the rapidly increasing rents, however, there is a constant change in users. Every two years Auguststrasse becomes the center of the Berlin Biennale for contemporary art .

Buildings and Memories

Clärchens Ballhaus at the level of Kleine Hamburger Strasse
Auguststrasse 21

→ List of cultural monuments in Berlin-Mitte / Spandauer Vorstadt

  • At Auguststraße 9 there is access to the Heckmann-Höfe , which extends to Oranienburger Straße .
  • The building of the former Jewish girls' school, built between 1927 and 1930 according to plans by Alexander Beer , is located at Auguststraße 11/13 .
  • Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish hospital was housed in the buildings at Auguststrasse 14-16. The building Auguststrasse 14/15 was built between 1858 and 1861 according to plans and under the direction of the architect Eduard Knoblauch . The building, designed as a hospital , took in the first patients in September 1861. However, since the St. Hedwig Hospital existed in the neighborhood and was continuously expanding, the complex was converted. It soon served as accommodation for immigrant Eastern European Jews and from 1922 became the “Beit Ahawah” children's home. Since most of the children emigrated during the Nazi regime , orphans were quartered here by the authorities until 1941 . After all, until the end of the war, the premises served as a collection camp for old and sick Jewish people who were deported from here to the concentration camps. The documentary film Das Kinderheim in Auguststrasse was made on the history of the house . Until 1983, the "Max Planck" extended secondary school was located in this building . The three-story front building is empty, the windows are boarded up. However, the entire structure is guarded.
  • The school building, Auguststrasse 21, initially housed the 10th municipal secondary school and later, in the 1940s, a vocational school. During the GDR era, the buildings were initially used by the 11th Polytechnic High School and, since the 1970s, by a high school for the visually impaired. In 1999 the community center of culture moved in , which had previously been located at Rosenthaler Straße 51. In 2011, part of a primary school moved here, which is run as a primary school at Koppenplatz Berlin, Auguststrasse location . The east facade of the side wing is expressively made of brick and shows a beautifully restored mosaic frieze below the eaves (can be seen from the grounds of the St. Hedwig Hospital). In the front building, right on the Auguststraße the gallery have White Elephant , a refuge and the children's studio color tone rented (as of May 2016).
  • Clärchens Ballhaus is located at Auguststraße 24/25 , an entertainment establishment that has been dancing continuously for over 100 years.
  • In house no. 68, the former chairman of the Wella AG supervisory board , Thomas Olbricht, shows his art and rarities collection in the me Collectors Room Berlin .
  • The foundation named after Alfred Ehrhardt has its seat at Auguststrasse 75. It organizes art exhibitions from all over Germany .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Lackmann: Dripstone Cave of Forgetting . In: Tagesspiegel . March 21, 2006.
  2. ↑ a b c Ingeborg Ruthe: Venue for art lovers . In: Berliner Zeitung , 2./3. October 2014.
  3. ^ Federal Agency for Civic Education: The Beit Ahawah Children's Home | bpb . In: bpb.de . ( bpb.de [accessed on November 22, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Kulturhaus Mitte closed since December 2010 ; accessed on June 15, 2016.
  5. ^ Kulturhaus Mitte ( Memento from February 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Tobias Timm: Shrunken Head and Mainzel Men . In: The time . No. April 18 , 2010.
  7. ^ Homepage of the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation , accessed on June 15, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '37 "  N , 13 ° 23' 48"  E