New West End

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Neu-Westend 1907 with only partially drawn in parcelling
Olympic Street on Steubenplatz

New West is a local situation of Berlin hamlet Westend in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . The parcelling and development began after 1905 by Neu-Westend Aktiengesellschaft für Real Estate Utilization on 130  hectares of land. Neu-Westend extends on both sides of Reichsstraße , the central shopping street of Westend, bordered by the Spandauer Damm in the north, the Kirschenallee, Platanenallee and Ahornallee lines in the east, the exhibition grounds in the south and the long-distance railway line in the west. Neu-Westend is mostly built up with four - storey residential buildings along the main thoroughfares Reichsstrasse and Heerstrasse ( five-storey at Theodor-Heuss-Platz ), off the main roads with spacious villas and along the mainline line at Westendallee with a long row of terraced houses. The street layout of the side streets differs from that of the older villa colony of Westend, which is adjacent to the northeast, through organically curved lines. Most of the streets are named after the countries of the German Empire . The Brixplatz and Karolingerplatz green spaces created by Erwin Barth are remarkable .

history

The former Reichskanzlerplatz , 1907

The Westend harness racing track has been located on part of the area since 1889 , on which - in addition to horse races - an annual flower parade and even the first car races took place. It stretched from today's Länderallee to Olympic Street. The area around the racetrack acquired by Deutsche Bank was bought in 1903 by Neu-Westend AG, founded by Alfred Schrobsdorff and Max Steinthal , in two stages in 1903 and 1907. From the beginning, the focus was on the idea of ​​increasing the value of the Boost plots. Steinthal himself was chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank and also on the supervisory board of the elevated railway company . Neu-Westend AG succeeded in convincing the elevated railway company to build an initially completely unprofitable underground line from today's Deutsche Oper station (then: Bismarckstraße ) to today's Theodor-Heuss-Platz station (then: Reichskanzlerplatz ). The financing was carried out jointly by Neu-Westend AG, the Hochbahngesellschaft and the (at that time still independent) city of Charlottenburg, for which Schrobsdorff had previously worked as a city councilor. The elevated railway company received high compensation payments for the operation of the unprofitable line.

Apartment house in the residential town at Ruhwaldpark

On March 29, 1908, the underground line went into operation. Kaiser Wilhelm II drove to Reichskanzlerplatz in a representative converted car especially for this purpose and made positive comments about the promising future of Neu-Westend. At the time of the opening, Neu-Westend was still almost completely undeveloped. One of the few exceptions was the representative villa that Schrobsdorff had himself built in 1907 by the architect of the Charlottenburger Tor , Bernhard Schaede . With the subway connection, construction began. However, only a few buildings in the area around Reichskanzlerplatz were completed by the First World War . For the opening of the German Stadium in 1913, the underground line was continued beyond Reichskanzlerplatz to the newly built Stadion station and the Grunewald workshop opened there.

In 1922, the Neu-Westend underground station at Steubenplatz went into operation. With the economic boom in the second half of the 1920s, settlement was expanded significantly to the north. The last areas in the north of Neu-Westend between Spandauer Damm and Gothaallee were not built on until after the Second World War . A striking landmark of Neu-Westend is the 15-storey apartment house by Klaus H. Ernst and Werner Weber, completed in 1957, on the highest point of the residential town at Ruhwaldpark (also called Ruhwaldparkiedlung ), which with seven one-room apartments and one two-room apartment on each floor is completely single Household is tailored.

schools

One of the first buildings in Neu-Westend was the Herder-Oberrealschule by Hans Winterstein, completed in 1909 and designed for 980 pupils, on the site of today's Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium on Bayernallee, which in old pictures still rises from the surrounding forest. Shortly thereafter, Rudolf Walter set up the double elementary school for boys and girls between Leistikowstrasse and Kastanienallee (today: Reinhold-Otto-Grundschule). Soon the Westend School, a lyceum for girls, moved into the building until the new Westend School building (also by Hans Winterstein) between Preußen- and Oldenburgallee was opened in 1929. The Herder-Gymnasium is located in this building today .

Churches

New Westend Church

For a long time, the New West Enders had to take long journeys to the parishes. The Catholic Heilig-Geist-Kirche has been located on Bayernallee since 1932 and the St. Gabriel Monastery since 1937 . The Anglican St. George's Church has stood nearby since 1950 . Neu-Westend was only given a Protestant church in 1960 with the Neu-Westend church by Konrad Sage and Karl Hebecker , the church tower of which is reminiscent of the former overgrown Westend with conifers; the first pastor was Winfried Maechler .

traffic

Neu-Westend is connected to Berlin's local rail network through the Theodor-Heuss-Platz and Neu-Westend underground stations and the Heerstraße S-Bahn station .

The M45 bus runs on Spandauer Damm between the Zoo station and Johannesstift in Hakenfelde and the 104 bus runs on Reichsstraße between Brixplatz and Alt-Stralau .

Prominent residents

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stephan Brandt: Berlin-Westend. Sutton, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-458-6 , p. 16

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '58.4 "  N , 13 ° 15' 33"  E