Berliner Strasse (Berlin-Pankow)

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Berlin street
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Berlin street
Berliner Straße at its southern end in 1981 with the tram and elevated viaduct of the U-Bahn
Basic data
place Berlin
District Pankow
Created in the 17th century
Hist. Names Berliner Weg (17th century), Berliner Chaussee (17th century - 1895)
Connecting roads Breite Strasse (north), Schönhauser Allee (south)
Cross streets (Selection) Hadlichstraße (east), Florastraße (west), Granitzstraße (east), Binzstraße (west), Elsa-Brändström-Straße (east), Mühlenstraße / Vinetastraße / Brennerstraße (intersection), Schonensche Straße (west; south)
Places no
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 1900 meters

The Berlin street is a street in Berlin 's Pankow district . It runs in a north-south direction through the district of Pankow .

History and location

The street got its name in 1895 as a connecting street between the municipality of Pankow, which was independent until 1920, and neighboring Berlin. Before that, it was called Berliner Weg from its layout in 1691 and Berliner Chaussee from 1824 . It runs from Breite Straße in Pankow to Schonenschen Straße in Prenzlauer Berg.

Post office Pankow I

In the north, Ossietzkystraße joins slightly to the west, which leads to Schönhausen Palace . Berliner Straße has served as a direct link between the residence in Berlin and this complex since it was built. At the beginning of the street is the old village green Pankow with the village church. The cigarette factory building and Josef Garbáty's villa as well as the Jewish orphanage are located on the east side of the street .

Garbáty cigarette factory

Then the street crosses under the railway systems of the Stettiner Bahn with the adjoining Berlin-Pankow station . Further south, underground line 2 with Vinetastraße station runs under the street . On the western side of the street follows the location of the former Tivoli cinema , which is considered the first cinema in Germany. The house numbers of this street are given in horseshoe form and range from number 1 to number 130.

More structures along the road

Special features of some house numbers

  • No. 15: In the years before 1900, the Berlin address book names the Pankow stop of the Szczecin Railway , the property was owned by the railway treasury . The station building contained the station master's apartment. Later the Berlin-Pankow train station developed from this .
Mosaic in Berliner Strasse

Bicycle traffic

One of 17 permanently installed automatic wheel counting stations in Berlin has been located on Berliner Straße since 2016. Of all the places in the city that have a counting point, Berliner Straße is the third most frequented place by bicycle traffic.

See also

  • In the Pankow district two other streets are called Berliner Strasse :
  1. Berliner Strasse (Berlin-Blankenfelde)
  2. Berliner Strasse (Berlin-French Buchholz)

Web links

Commons : Berliner Straße (Berlin-Pankow)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Architectural monument at Berliner Strasse 12, post office, 1924 by Carl Schmidt
  2. a b c d e f Pankow> Berliner Strasse . In: New address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1896, V, p. 163ff.
  3. Invented in Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , 16./17. January 2016, magazine supplement, p. 3.
  4. Traffic survey bike counter for Berlin: How many cyclists are there? Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  5. Renaming of Berliner Straße in Heinersdorf to www.berlin.de/ba-pankow (press release)

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 41.4 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 47.1"  E