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Witzleben is a location in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ). The area surrounds the Lietzensee and is bordered by Kaiserdamm in the north, Windscheidstrasse and Suarezstrasse in the east, the Stadtbahn in the south and the Ringbahn in the west. In the neighborhood around 14,000 people live.
history
Around 1820, the Prussian State and War Minister General Job von Witzleben acquired the land around the Lietzensee. On the west side of the lake he had a park with a country house built. "Park Witzleben" has been the official name since 1840. The park changed hands several times after Witzleben's death. The public always had access to the park.
In 1899 the development of Witzleben began. The terrain company Park Witzleben acquired the park. She had Kantstrasse extended to the west. This development axis, the Neue Kantstrasse , leads over a heaped dam right through the Lietzensee. This gave the lake its current shape of a bent figure eight.
Until the First World War, mainly rental houses for higher demands were built in the area. But business and administration buildings have also been built here.
The world's first television station broadcast in Witzleben from 1935 . Headquartered am Lietzensee Reich Military Court , since 1936 the Reich Court Martial had in the era of National Socialism an important role to ensure the Nazi regime held.
building
Secular buildings
The Lietzenseepark as the "green lung" for the Witzleben location is treated under Lietzensee . The former Reich Military Court is located on Witzlebenplatz . The imposing neo-baroque building complex was built from 1908 to 1910 according to plans by Heinrich Joseph Kayser and Karl von Großheim . In the Third Reich, the Reich Court Martial was active in the building , and many civilians were prosecuted by it even without formal jurisdiction. It became internationally known primarily through the Red Chapel Trials.
After the Second World War , the Higher Regional Court (more or less the Berlin Higher Regional Court ) was housed here until it was able to take over its own building on Kleistpark again. After years of vacancy, the building was converted into condominiums in 2007/2008 .
The Charlottenburg District Court building was built between 1895 and 1897. It is located in the center of the district court, which is designed as a green area. The “ Märkische Barock ” design was created by the architects Poetsch and Clasen.
At the end of Neue Kantstraße is the listed access building to the S-Bahn station Messe Nord / ICC (Witzleben) . This station was built from 1913 to 1916 by the Charlottenburg Civil Engineering Department according to plans by the architect August Bredtschneider . It was called Witzleben until 2002.
In the course of the Neue Kantstraße, the Lietzensee bridge spans the connection between the north and south of the Lietzensee. The monument, made of red sandstone, was built by Terrain AG Park Witzleben .
The building complex of the former state post office extends between Herbartstrasse and Dernburgstrasse. The functional administration building with representative portals was built from 1925 to 1928 based on a design by Willy Hoffmann . It is currently used by Deutsche Telekom .
Sacred buildings
The striking barrel vault building of the Catholic Church of St. Canisius, designed by Reinhold Hofbauer and built between 1954 and 1957, burned out completely in 1995. The architects Büttner, Neumann & Braun planned a cubic new St. Canisius building , which was inaugurated on June 28, 2002. This facility received the Berlin Architecture Prize in 2003.
The Jesuit Ignatius House was located in the vicinity of St. Canisius until 2003 . The house, built in 1955/1956 according to plans by Johannes Jackel , is a typical representative of its time and has meanwhile been elevated to a monument . It was the seat of the north German province of Jesuits and the Christian Faith and Life School of St. Ignatius.
The evangelical church at Lietzensee was built from 1957 to 1959 based on a design by Paul Baumgarten . Simple geometric shapes characterize the building with a pentagonal floor plan. The folding roof made of triangles is partially pulled down to the floor. A sandblasted glass front opens behind the altar , revealing the park area. The new building replaced the first church of the Protestant parish, which was destroyed in the Second World War, a wooden church built in 1919/1920. Before the building site for the church on the western bank of the southern Lietzensee (Herbartstrasse 4–6) was found, the congregation, which emerged from the Epiphany parish on April 1, 1913, used the auditorium of the 21./22. Community school in Witzlebenstrasse 34, today's Lietzensee primary school.
Monuments
The bronze sculpture Treblinka has stood in the park opposite the main portal of the district court since 1979 . It shows abstract human bodies piled on top of each other. It is a memorial for the 900,000 people who were murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp . The sculpture was created in 1966 by the Russian sculptor Vadim Sidur .
traffic
Private transport
The Neue Kantstrasse opens up Witzleben and connects it eastward with the City-West . In the north, the wide Kaiserdamm - as part of the east-west axis started at the end of the 1930s as part of the National Socialist rebuilding program for Berlin to become the “ world capital Germania ” - borders the residential area and offers fast connections to downtown Berlin and to the west via AVUS and the Heerstrasse .
On the western edge, parallel to the route of the Ringbahn , the Berlin city motorway is located in a lower position . The connection points in the area of the exhibition grounds offer good connections.
Lanes
The Ringbahn borders the neighborhood in the west. The S-Bahn station Messe Nord / ICC (formerly: Bahnhof Witzleben ) offers connections to various lines of the Berlin S-Bahn .
The tram route is on the southern edge . Here the Westkreuz junction station offers a connection to the S-Bahn lines on the Ring and the Stadtbahn. This train station can only be easily reached from Witzleben with the Ringbahn. In addition to the S-Bahn , the nearby Charlottenburg train station also offers some regional transport connections (regional express RE1 and RE7, regional trains RB10, RB14 and RB21) and access to the U7 subway line at Wilmersdorfer Straße subway station .
In the north passes under the Kaiserdamm the subway line U2 . In Witzleben, the Kaiserdamm and Sophie-Charlotte-Platz stations provide access to this connection in the direction of City West and the Berlin city center . At the Kaiserdamm underground station there is also a transition to the Messe Nord / ICC station.
buses
Some bus routes offer east-west and north-south connections. The central bus station (ZOB) is directly adjacent to Witzleben . From there there are many bus connections to German and European cities.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former Ignatius House . Website of the State of Berlin. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn course book
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 23 ″ E