Brussels neighborhood

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Beuth University of Technology in the Brussels neighborhood

The Brussels neighborhood is a location in the Berlin district of Wedding from the Mitte district .

The name is derived from Brussels Street, which runs through the neighborhood . The quarter is also called the Belgian quarter , as all streets in the quarter - as in the better known Belgian quarter in Cologne  - are named after places and regions in Belgium .

location

The quarter is defined by the following boundaries:

  • Southeast - through Luxemburger Straße and the adjacent Sprengelkiez , originally the district continued here to Triftstraße, but this border shifted when Luxemburger Straße was expanded from a branch to a main road in the early 1960s.
  • South - through Augustenburger Platz with the main portal of the Virchow Clinic
  • Southwest - through Amrumer Straße and the Virchow Clinic
  • Northwest - through Seestrasse and the adjacent African Quarter
  • Northeast - through Müllerstrasse
  • East - through Leopoldplatz

description

The Zeppelinplatz in winter

Apart from a few new buildings from the 1960s, the quarter is characterized by block perimeter development, especially from the Wilhelminian era ; the street lighting was still carried out by means of gas lamps until 2019 and some street pumps have been preserved in the neighborhood. The apartment blocks with gardens in the inner courtyard from the 1920s along Ostender Strasse have been under monument protection since the 1990s . Parts of the neighborhood belong to the active city center development area and the Müllerstraße redevelopment area as part of the federal-state funding program for active city centers . Since May 2016, almost all apartment blocks have been in the scope of a conservation statute , the Seestrasse milieu protection area. Since 2017, two student residences for around 200 students have been built by a housing association on Amrumer Strasse. The quarter borders on Leopoldplatz, which the police mention as a crime-prone place.

Active life in the neighborhood includes the Beuth University of Technology , the Ernst Schering Comprehensive School, two kindergartens and five smaller daycare centers. Another daycare center is under construction on Ostender Strasse on the premises of the Beuth University. There are five public playgrounds, a tennis facility on Amrumer Strasse and other sports facilities on Zeppelinplatz. There is a municipal art gallery in the Wedding Town Hall. In addition to smaller shops, a food coop and late- night shops in the district, the shopping center Cittipoint at the corner of Brussels and Müllerstraße and the numerous shops on Müllerstraße offer shopping opportunities . There are also several betting offices on Brüssler Straße and Genter Straße. Twice a week - Wednesdays and Saturdays - there is a weekly market in the parking lot behind Wedding Town Hall. Only a few of the original corner pubs in Berlin, which were typical for this type of neighborhood, have survived; these are almost exclusively located on Brussels Street. Since 2014 there has been a microbrewery with taproom on Antwerpener Straße. There are also a few restaurants in the neighborhood.

Buildings and plants

traffic

The district itself is traffic-calmed as a 30 km / h zone , but is surrounded by main traffic axes. According to an area development plan from 1965, Seestrasse and Amrumer Strasse were even intended to be converted into a motorway with a cross instead of the intersection of the two streets. The city ​​autobahn (A 100) should be extended over Seestrasse and the western bypass (A 103) should run along the Amrumer Strasse route .

The district is flanked on all sides by public transport , in addition to bus lines , the underground lines U6 under Müllerstrasse and U9 under Luxemburger Strasse as well as the tram route on Seestrasse with lines 50 and M13 are particularly noteworthy.

Streets in the neighborhood

  • Brussels Street, named after the Belgian capital Brussels
  • Ostend Strasse, named after the Belgian city of Ostend
  • Limburger Strasse, named after the Belgian province of Limburg
  • Genter Strasse, named after the Belgian city of Ghent ; between August 29, 1933 and July 31, 1947 under different names (until 1945 Fritz-Schulz-Strasse after an SS man, then Adolf-Pogede-Strasse after a Weddinger KPD district councilor and Nazi victim)
  • Antwerpener Straße, named after the Belgian city and province of Antwerp
  • Liège Street, named after the Belgian city and province of Liège
  • Originally located in the district: Luxemburger Straße, named after the Belgian province of Luxembourg

Zeppelinplatz

This square was laid out in the 19th century and “in honor of the famous airship, Count Ferdinand v. Zeppelin and named in memory of its trip to Berlin on August 29, 1909 ”. In the 1980s, the facility was extensively redesigned based on a design by landscape architect Michael Hennemann.

Design of the Zeppelinplatz

He described his planning idea as follows:

“The central idea was to abolish the Antwerpener Strasse between Ostenderstrasse and Limburger Strasse, which had previously been dividing the square, and to merge the square into a spatial unit. This was done by mutual agreement with the civil engineering department (parking space replacement areas were created in Ostender Strasse by 'cross parking'). Characteristic elements of the new Zeppelinplatz are the lawn area with old trees, a seating area with an arcade and rose bed, as well as the enlarged, diversely equipped play area with a variety of games. The planned costs amounted to 2,830,000  marks . "

In 1990, Wedding received another and, above all, contiguous green space close to the apartment. The park was redesigned from 2015 to 2017.

Support association

The Förderverein Brusselser Kiez e. V. , whose main task is to acquire material and monetary donations for projects in the neighborhood as well as the acquisition of contributing members for financial, permanent support . Another focus is on developing new strategies and ideas so that civic engagement in the neighborhood is long-term. The association provides funds for projects that either complement existing programs or continue them in an innovative way.

literature

  • Karen Albert-Hermann, Jürgen Handrich: THE WEDDING is green . 1st edition. Verlagsbuchhandlung Koll, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-925024-03-4 .
  • Jürgen Handrich, Gerd Kittelmann, Brigitte Prévot: Town squares in Wedding. A documentation of their origin and meaning. 1st edition. Wedding district office in Berlin, 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Environmental protection areas. December 4, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  2. ^ Peter Oldenburger: Laying of the foundation stone for student apartments . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed on December 16, 2017]).
  3. ↑ List of places with crime in Berlin. June 8, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ New construction of a day-care center and office space for the Beuth University. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wedding Gallery | Contemporary art space. Retrieved January 2, 2018 (German).
  6. ^ Food Coop Wedding-West. Retrieved January 2, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB) In: Berliner Woche: Specialists in the Sugar Institute: Heart Center takes over construction in Amrumer Strasse
  8. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  9. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  10. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  11. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  12. ^ Zeppelinplatz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, part 4, p. 994.
  13. ^ Zeppelinplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  14. ↑ Jürgen Handrich, Gerd Kittelmann, Brigitte Prévot: City squares in Wedding. A documentation of their origin and meaning. 1991

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 50 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 3 ″  E