Boxhagener Platz
The Boxhagener Platz in Berlin-Friedrichshain is located between the Gruenberger Strasse, Krossener street, the gardener Street and Gabriel-Max-Strasse. It got its name in 1900 from the Vorwerk Boxhagen , towards which the Boxhagener Straße running one block north parallel to the square ran. Before 1900 the court registered the name Square D . The facility was completed in 1903.
The square, popularly known as Boxi , serves as a central recreational area, meeting point, children's playground and marketplace in the Kiez . The clashing different ideas about life of the different population groups living in the quarter are particularly noticeable. Boxhagener Platz is protected as a garden monument .
Facilities
On the western half of the square there is a children's playground and a 300 square meter paddling pool . This basin with its distinctive penguin and duck sculptures was created around 1925 according to the plans of Erwin Barth . The eastern half of the square is dominated by a large meadow. Boxhagener Platz was restructured in autumn 2004. Another fence was built around the green area and on top of it an additional small children's playground. Dogs are no longer allowed in this area since then. From December 2005 to June 22, 2006, the western half of the playground was redesigned at a total cost of 51,500 euros and a “multifunctional play device” worth 18,000 euros was installed.
There is a “ Café Achteck ” on the eastern half of the square . This public lavatory was built towards the end of the 19th century according to plans by the City Building Councilor Carl Theodor Rospatt and was originally intended only for men. It is one of around 30 similar institutions that still exist in Berlin today. The cast-iron house was built from seven green-painted wall segments decorated with ornaments and forms an octagonal floor plan. The gas lanterns at both ends served as evening lighting and decorative elements. In 1992 the historic toilet block burned out. Although the only facility of this type in Friedrichshain was renovated in 1995, the lighting was still missing. The house was reconstructed true to the original at the end of the 1990s, equipped with a modern system on the inside and put into operation again in October 2000.
Attractions
A weekly market has been held every Saturday since 1905, offering fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and fish and baked goods as well as specialties from abroad and the region. There is a flea market here on Sundays . Due to complaints from local residents, it was downsized by the authorities in 2004, whereupon more and more professional flea market dealers and less private sellers are offering their junk.
The task of the Karuna Association is to help children and young people who are at risk of addiction and who are addicted . For this purpose, the association has set up a café in a pavilion on Boxhagener Platz , in which young people who have committed criminal offenses can do their social hours.
Social conflict
Some citizens criticize alcohol consumption and dogs running freely on the square. On Walpurgis Night there are often riots and riots with the police, which are accompanied by numerous onlookers. In 2007 61 people were arrested.
In the summer of 2006, a group of 12 to 15 people between the ages of 30 and 45 - called "stress brigades" by the population - caused a stir because they repeatedly provoked violent confrontations and wanted to make exclusive claims to the pitch .
History of the neighborhood
With industry emerging outside, the area became a working-class district. Exception was being moved to the Helenenhof cooperative housing complex for civil servants and to 1914 furnished for wealthier citizens Knorrpromenade . During the rebuilding of the post-war period and the GDR , the area changed only slightly in contrast to the part of Friedrichshain (Nordkiez) north of Frankfurter Allee . After the fall of the Wall , the area was heavily influenced by squatting until Mainzer Strasse was cleared in 1990 , of which little can be seen today. A relic from this time is the house project at Grünberger Straße 73, which is directly opposite Boxhagener Platz and is legalized today. The residents of the neighborhood around Boxhagener Platz are today characterized by different lifestyles and origins.
District management
Between 1999 and 2005 the district management area Boxhagener Platz was located between Frankfurter Allee and Revaler Straße in order to make the area more attractive as a residential, work and leisure location. It is bordered to the east by Helmerding, Holtei, Weichsel, Scharnweber and Gürtelstrasse and to the west by Niederbarnim, Simon-Dachstrasse and Libauer Strasse. With 75 hectares and 18,500 residents, it is one of the most densely populated areas in the city. The district management was set up due to the increased departure of families with children and workers. The neighborhood management office was at Krossener Straße 9/10. During the measures taken by the neighborhood management team with the residents, residents and businesses, the area was subject to a gentrification process that is still in progress today . Most of the houses have now been renovated and commercial space has been rented.
Meanwhile, the population has risen by eleven percent and children under the age of six have increased by 15 percent. Today the area is mostly inhabited by people between the ages of 18 and 35 years. The proportion of foreign citizens has increased by 60 percent since 1999, 70 percent of them from countries outside the EU . The large proportion of small one to two-room apartments is the reason for the high fluctuation of residents.
Others
In 2004 the Roman Boxhagener Platz by Torsten Schulz and in 2005 the corresponding radio play appeared in Ullstein Verlag . The novel was with Gudrun Ritter , Jürgen Vogel , Meret Becker , Horst Krause and Michael Gwisdek directed by Matti Geschonneck filmed and had on 16 February 2010 at the 60th Berlinale premiere. The film is set in 1968 on and around Boxhagener Platz, but was not shot on the original location, but among other things on the outside of the Potsdam Studio Babelsberg , as Boxhagener Platz had changed too much after more than 40 years.
Movies
- Boxhagener Platz. Documentary film, Germany, 2008, 43:30 min., Script and direction: Eva Demmler, production: rbb , series: Berlin corners and edges, film information ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) from rbb.
- Boxhagener Platz . Feature film, Germany, 2010, 103 min., Director: Matti Geschonneck , screenplay: Torsten Schulz .
See also
literature
- Sven Heinemann and Friedrichshainer Wochenmarktgesellschaft GbR (Hrsg.): A short history of the Boxhagener Platz . On the occasion of 110 years of market activity. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049953-1 .
Web links
- Boxhagener Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Erwin Albert Barth : Five sheets on Boxhagener Platz from 1929. in the architecture museum of the TU Berlin
- 100 years Boxhagener Kiez - changing needs. In: FRIEDRICHsHAIN. Urban renewal magazine, issue 3/2013.
- Boxhagener Kiez
- Weekly market Boxhagener Platz - site of the operator
- Criticism of the gentrification around Boxhagener Platz
- District management at Boxhagener Platz is a success story
- Official website of the film adaptation of the novel Boxhagener Platz from 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boxhagener Platz playground is given to the population. ( Memento from June 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) At: friedrichshain-kreuzberg.de
- ↑ Am Boxhagener Platz: Wait, look at or move out ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 30, 2006
- ↑ Party, abuse, police . At Spiegel Online
- ^ Right of thumb at Boxhagener Platz . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 19, 2006.
- ↑ District management at Boxhagener Platz
- ↑ Quartiersmanagement Berlin ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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.
- ↑ Till Schröder: A neighborhood at the turning point ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (55 minutes).
- ↑ Boxhagner Platz. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '38.9 " N , 13 ° 27' 34.9" E