Berliner Platz (Stuttgart)

Berliner Platz with the Liederhalle

The Berliner Platz is a place west of the city center of Stuttgart .

location

The square is bordered by Silcher, Schloss, Seiden and Büchsenstraße. The outstanding building is the Liederhalle culture and congress center on the eastern edge. The northern boundary is the Bosch area , an ensemble of buildings with a few shops, and the associated Literaturhaus Stuttgart. To the west is a large office complex belonging to the insurance company HUK Coburg . On the southern edge - in the direction of Rotebühlplatz - there are further office buildings as well as a striking five-story building with the Institut français and the French consulate general. The tram lines U 4, U 14 and U 29 as well as the bus lines 41, 41 and N3 run at the two-part Berliner Platz (Liederhalle) stop. Lines U 2, U 4, U 14 and U 34 stop at the Berliner Platz (Hohe Straße) stop. There are lawns and plenty of seating in the square.

history

The Stuttgart municipal council decided on July 19, 1956 to name this area Berliner Platz . In a corresponding document from the Statistical Office dated August 28, 1956, the fields "previous designation", "named after" and "reason for designation" are empty. The Berliner Platz already existed before the war, but as a nameless green space with trees between the Seidenstrasse and the Liederhalle or Büchsenbad. When the new Liederhalle was completed and inaugurated after the Second World War, the apron also had to be designed. In the times of the division of Germany, the Cold War and the divided city of Berlin, the name Berliner Platz was appropriate and was in the spirit of the times. There was no relation between the square and Berlin in historical times and it does not exist today either. The naming was purely politically motivated. The reference work “The Stuttgart Street Names” only records: “Berliner Platz (named 1956, Stuttgart-Mitte district) after the German capital Berlin.” A memorial was erected on the square in honor of the pastor and engineer Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1739–1790) built. It was created by Peter Otto Heim and inaugurated on December 14, 1956. The bronze ball on the marble base represents the celestial globe. Hahn had worked with sundials and telescopes. On the anniversary of reunification in 1990, a so-called peace tree was planted on Berliner Platz, against which demonstrators protested.

There is a Berliner Platz in many other German cities, including Erfurt, Lübeck, Gießen and Ludwigshafen.

Web links

Commons : Berliner Platz (Stuttgart)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Berliner Platz in Stuttgart: Junction should be safer . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on January 26, 2018]).
2. ↑ State capital Stuttgart (ed.): The Stuttgart street names . Silberburg-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-87407-748-4 .
3. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: 25 years of German unity: Unpeaceful scenes under the peace tree . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on January 26, 2018]).