Bismarckstrasse (Berlin-Charlottenburg)
  Bismarckstrasse
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Charlottenburg |
| Created | 17th century |
| Newly designed | Early 20th century |
| Hist. Names |
Mühlenweg, Mühlenstraße, Extended Bismarckstraße |
| Connecting roads |
Strasse des 17. Juni , Kaiserdamm |
| Cross streets |
Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Strasse , Am Schillertheater , Leibnizstrasse , Weimarer Strasse , Krumme Strasse , Richard-Wagner-Strasse , Sesenheimer Strasse , Wilmersdorfer Strasse , Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse , Fritschestrasse , Schloßstrasse |
| Places |
Ernst-Reuter-Platz , Sophie-Charlotte-Platz |
| Buildings | Schiller Theater , German Opera |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1500 meters |
The Bismarck Street is a main street in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf between the Sophie-Charlotte-Platz and the Ernst-Reuter-Platz .
history
The route along Bismarckstrasse was created when the Great Zoo was designed in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the path was called Mühlenweg because of several adjacent grinders . The subsequent Charlottenburger Chaussee (since 1953: Straße des 17. Juni ) continued in a straight line to the east. A path to the west led to the northwest of the Lietzensee to Havel transition in Pichel mountains . In the 18th century this route lost its importance, the routes to Spandau via Spandauer Strasse and Potsdam had been expanded and made more convenient.
Only when the then independent Prussian city of Charlottenburg expanded to the south in the early days and the first houses were built here in the last decades of the 19th century, Mühlenweg was fortified and renamed Mühlenstraße in 1828 . The expansion took place initially in the eastern part between the knee (since 1953: Ernst-Reuter-Platz ) and Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße and ended in front of the marshland of the Black Trench and the Lietzenseegraben. In the second half of the 19th century, after the area west of Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse had been drained , it was extended to Schloßstrasse and named after the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck on March 11, 1867 . The western part was called the Extended Bismarck Street.
From 1902, the houses that had just been built on the southern edge of the street had to be demolished again. Bismarckstrasse, which was previously laid out across the width of a side street, was expanded as a boulevard and parade path. A wide swathe was cut through the city for more than ten kilometers; The model was the boulevards (more precisely: avenues ) of Paris . This created a straight, broad street in an extension of the street Unter den Linden , which continued to the west over the Kaiserdamm and along the Heerstraße to Scholzplatz in Pichelsberg . During the Nazi era , Bismarckstrasse was part of the east-west axis , the expansion of which was completed in 1939. This also includes the typical candelabra , which Albert Speer created specifically to illuminate the east-west axis . The line of sight from the higher Theodor-Heuss-Platz in a straight line to the Großer Stern and the Rotes Rathaus has been preserved.
Current situation
The street is an extension of Straße des 17. Juni and continues from Sophie-Charlotte-Platz to the west through Kaiserdamm . It is part of the federal highways B 2 and B 5 through Berlin.
The U2 line of the Berlin subway runs under Bismarckstrasse and the U7 runs under Wilmersdorfer Strasse . At both ends of the approximately 1.5-kilometer-long street there is an underground station ( Sophie-Charlotte-Platz and Ernst-Reuter-Platz ), with the Bismarckstraße and stations in between at relatively short intervals on the street itself German opera .
The street is best known for the local German Opera and the demonstration on June 2, 1967 , during which the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by a police officer not far from the opera on Krumme Straße. The Charlottenburg tax office , the Fröbelhaus and the building of the former Schiller Theater near Ernst-Reuter-Platz are also along the street .
Web links
- Information from the district office
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Bismarckstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Mühlenstrasse . In: Luise.
- Extended Bismarckstrasse . In: Luise.
- City map 1893 at alt-berlin.info
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mühlenstrasse . In: Luise. Confirmed by Berlin address books from 1868.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 43 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 32 ″ E