Berlin-Schöneweide
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Location of Schöneweide in Berlin
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Schöneweide is the simplified name for the two districts Niederschöneweide and Oberschöneweide in the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin , located on both sides of a bend in the Spree. The two districts, however, developed independently of each other.
The two districts were located in different administrative districts of the city until the administrative reform in 2001, Niederschöneweide was part of the former Treptow district , while Oberschöneweide was part of the former Köpenick district . As a result of the merger of these former city districts, both districts are now in the Treptow-Köpenick district .
history
The name Schöneweide is derived from a travel description by Elector Joachim II from 1598. There, the name “Schöne Weyde” describes an extensive meadow on the southern bank of the Spree .
Settlement of the southern bank of the Spree (today Niederschöneweide) began in the 17th century with tar smelting and that of the northern bank of the Spree (today Oberschöneweide) also in the 17th century with the Quappenkrug inn, later the Wilhelminenhof.
Niederschöneweide was raised to an independent municipality in August 1878 and Oberschöneweide in March 1898. Before they became a district, the two settlements were officially called "Etablissements bei der Schöne Weide" or "Etablissements bei Köpenick". However, the development of the two districts was both politically and economically independent of each other.
The first connection between the two places across the Spree was created in 1885 with a chain ferry, which was replaced by a wooden bridge in 1891. In the following years two more bridges were added. The Kaisersteg was blown up by the SS in 1945 and rebuilt in 2007.
The Schöneweide train station , located in the Niederschöneweide district, was opened in 1868 as a stop at Neuer Krug-Johannisthal on the Görlitzer Bahn and expanded into the Niederschöneweide-Johannisthal train station between 1880 and 1882 .
The history of Oberschöneweide is closely linked to the history of the AEG group, the settlement of which established the development of Schöneweide into an industrial and working-class district. The architect and designer Peter Behrens built some outstanding industrial buildings (NAG buildings) for AEG on Wilhelminenhofstrasse.
The independence of the two communities ended in 1920 when they were incorporated into Greater Berlin .
With the fall of the Wall in the GDR , the two traditional industrial locations in Berlin also ended after 1990, with one exception: the South Korean industrial giant Samsung operated a production site for monitors and mobile phones in Oberschöneweide until the end of 2005. New hopes are placed in the establishment of the University of Technology and Economics (HTW).
In Berlin, Schöneweide is also referred to as the “pig wasteland”. The Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor is located in Niederschöneweide , with exhibitions on the history of Nazi forced labor in Schöneweide and Berlin, in the Reich and in occupied Europe.
Web links
- District Office Treptow-Köpenick / Niederschöneweide
- District Office Treptow-Köpenick / Oberschöneweide
- Oberschöneweide at a glance. On berlin.de, accessed on May 21, 2012 ( Memento from May 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Regional management Schöneweide
- Information sheet from the BZI on important industrial buildings in Schöneweide
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk - Beyond the Miss Miracles . Carsten Otte: Pig wasteland . From Michael Opitz. June 28, 2004
- ↑ Maximilian Klein: Deutschlandradio Kultur - Berlin-Schöneweide shortly before his discovery: When the broker rings three times , contribution from July 19, 2015
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ' N , 13 ° 31' E