Berliner Allee (Berlin)
 Berliner Allee
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| Berliner Allee in a south-westerly direction from Pistoriusstrasse | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Weissensee |
| Created | in the 14th century |
| Hist. Names |
Königschaussee, Berliner Strasse, Klement-Gottwald-Allee |
| Connecting roads |
Greifswalder Strasse (southwest) , Malchower Chaussee (northeast; Malchow area ) |
| Cross streets | see location sketch |
| Places | Antonplatz |
| Buildings | Development along Berliner Allee |
| use | |
| User groups | Road traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 3500 meters |
The Berliner Allee is the main thoroughfare in the Berlin district of Weissensee ( Pankow ). The approximately 3.5 kilometers long arterial road is part of Bundesstraße 2 and leads in the direction of Malchow and the Barnim motorway triangle .
The White Lake, the village church Weißensee and the Darßer Bridge are also registered .
Location and traffic
It begins at the border with the Prenzlauer Berg district in the southwest behind the intersection of Gürtelstrasse and Lehderstrasse as an extension of Greifswalder Strasse and runs in an arch east past the White Lake . In the northeast it goes in the district Malchow of Lichtenberg , approximately 200 meters before the Darßer bridge at the mouth of the night albums path first in the Malchower Chaussee over, as village road on to the triangle Barnim or to Bundesautobahn 11 (Berlin Szczecin leads).
The New Berlin Horse Railroad Company had opened a line for passenger transport from Berlin to Weißensee in 1877. Since the 1990s, the avenue has been used by tram lines M4, M13, 12 and 27, as well as by bus lines 156, 255 and 259, in sections between Gürtelstraße and Rennbahnstraße .
history
Today's Berliner Allee has existed since the Middle Ages and served as a long-distance trade route between Berlin and Bernau as well as further to the northeast. Weißensee was the first village from Berlin, it benefited from the trade in goods and the expansion of the traffic route through the common land. From 1810, today's southwestern section in the Neu-Weißensee area was named Königschaussee . The name comes from the fact that this trade route began at Berlin's Königstor as a continuation of the inner-city Königsstraße or New Königsstraße .
The section in the village center of Weißensee (between today's Indira-Gandhi-Strasse and Malchower Chaussee) was named Berliner Strasse from 1884 at the latest . Previously it was probably simply referred to as the village street .
Both sections were merged in 1910 and renamed Berliner Allee . During these years, the municipal administration decided to build a new village center around the Kreuzpfuhl , which was laid out as a park and surrounded by completely new buildings. However, the new area did not get the desired significance; the traffic routing over Berliner Allee remained formative for the development of the town. - Until June 13, 1953, the street kept the name Berliner Allee, on that day it was renamed Klement-Gottwald-Allee . The inspiration for this was the Czechoslovak politician Klement Gottwald . After the fall of the Wall , it was renamed Berliner Allee on September 1, 1991 .
Development along Berliner Allee
numbering
In contrast to Greifswalder Straße with the older horseshoe numbering , the house numbers on Berliner Allee are arranged alternately ( orientation numbering ), whereby the plots on the north / west side have odd numbers and end with the number 323.
Residential houses and service facilities
At the end of the 19th century, new residential buildings were built along the traffic routes for the rapidly growing population. Some of the Wilhelminian-style houses did not survive the Second World War , some simply fell into disrepair and had to be demolished. Nevertheless, the Berlin Monument List shows even larger preserved and mostly renovated residential complexes such as Berliner Allee 18 (private residence), Berliner Allee 174 and 178 / corner Buschallee (1914–1928), Karree Berliner Allee 218–238 / Graacher Strasse / Wehlener Strasse or Berliner Allee 185.
In addition, there was a hospital (St. Joseph, set back on Gartenstrasse, southeast of the park on White Lake) and a pharmacy (1875) for medical care.
Commercial buildings
In the middle area, Berliner Allee is a lively shopping street, which at the end of the 19th century received not only residential buildings as a contiguous street, but also commercial buildings on a smaller scale. Aided by the establishment of an industrial railway connection at the end of the 19th century, smaller and larger businesses were also built on the avenue, such as the Sternecker brewery (Berliner Allee 123) named after the entrepreneur Rudolf Sternecker with factory halls, office buildings and storage buildings (around 1900) or the striking clinker-clad building ensemble of the former apparatus works by Carl Otto Raspe ("Askanierhaus" from 1941, since the 1990s: Pankow Town Hall, Weißensee branch) on the corner of Liebermannstrasse. The aforementioned buildings are also part of the state monument list.
At Berliner Allee 100 (then: Klement-Gottwald-Allee ) on the corner of Smetanastraße, East Berlin's first self -service shop was opened on December 13, 1956 in a building built by the Einheitspreis AG (EPA) belonging to Karstadt in 1929/1930 .
The section of Berliner Allee to the northeast of the park on the Weißen See has been given retirement homes in the past few decades, followed by shopping centers, a car dealership, and gas stations - but no new residential developments have emerged.
Church, Kulturhaus and Bismarckstein
The oldest and best-known monument on Berliner Allee is the village church Weißensee (house number 180) on the corner of Falkenberger Straße, which was first mentioned in the 15th century and after extensive renovation work in the 2000s, it shines again in a fresh splendor.
The Volkshaus Weißensee (house number 125) was opened in 1946 in the rooms of the former palace pavilion between the park at Weißensee and the Sternecker brewery . In 1962, the Weißensee District Culture House was established here , which in 1984 was given the additional name " Peter Edel ". It has been empty since December 2009, but should reopen in 2020.
Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel lived in the “Brechthaus” near the White Lake (house number 185) from 1949 to 1953 . After the fall of the Wall, it became the property of the Brecht Literature Forum , which until the late 1990s occasionally held readings with authors and workshop discussions with artists in the building. There has been no evidence of use for some years.
The municipal administration dedicated a large granite boulder uncovered during construction work to the then Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . It was inaugurated on July 30, 1908 and placed in a small green area at the intersection of Rennbahnstrasse and Bernkasteler Strasse. At the end of the 20th century it was restored and the green area repaired.
Parks and squares
Around the White Lake, which gives the district its name, a park with walking paths, an animal enclosure, a café (“Milchhäuschen”) and several monuments was created as early as the 19th century . It serves as the green lung of Weissensee, but is also the location for larger outdoor events. At the confluence of Langhansstrasse and Berliner Allee is Antonplatz , which is divided by the avenue into a northern and a southern area.
Namesakes
The name Berliner Allee is a frequently used street name in Germany. The traffic routes were originally named after their destination, and Berlin was at the intersection of many streets. Streets with this designation are still preserved in: Altlandsberg , Aschaffenburg , Augsburg , Berlin-Blankenfelde , Darmstadt , Detmold , Düsseldorf , Hanover and on the exhibition grounds in Hanover , Hilden , Lübeck and Norderstedt .
Web links
- Berliner Allee. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architectural monument rental building BA 18; 1883
- ↑ Monument ensemble BA 174 + 178 at the corner of Buschallee (1914–1928)
- ↑ Apartment blocks Berliner Allee 196 + 198 / Caseler Straße (around 1914)
- ↑ Architectural monument residential complex BA 218-238 / Graacher Strasse / Wehlener Strasse (around 1928)
- ↑ Architectural monument BA 185 "Brechthaus Weißensee" (around 1870)
- ↑ Architectural monument Flora-Apotheke BA 109 (1875)
- ↑ Short text on the Sternecker brewery and a series of photos on Silent Ruins; Retrieved on December 18, 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Monument production halls of the brewery (1886) and the hall building (1927), BA 121–125 ,Architectural monument BA 252–260 Askanierhaus with MfS watchtower from 1970 ,BA 100 Karstadt department store monument
- ^ Berlin in historical recordings. The first self-service shop in the GDR. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 5, 2018
- ↑ Architectural monument village church Weißensee
- ^ Opening of the Volkshaus Weißensee. In: Neues Deutschland , October 11, 1946, p. 4.
- ↑ Renovation begins with demolition: the Kulturhaus on Berliner Allee is finally being renovated. In: Berliner Woche , Weißensee edition, January 9, 2018.
- ^ Homepage of the Weißensee Literature Forum; Retrieved on March 29, 2010 ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Private homepage with brief information on some boulders in the Berlin streetscape ; Retrieved March 30, 2010
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 10 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E