Brunnenplatz (Berlin)
| Fountain square | |
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 Brunnenplatz, front part, view of the district court |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Healthy well |
| Created | 1906-1908 |
| Newly designed | 1980s |
| Confluent streets |
Pankstrasse , Brunnenplatz , Schönstedtstrasse , Thurneysserstrasse |
| Buildings | Wedding District Court |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists |
The Fountain Square is a square in Berlin district of Gesundbrunnen , whose investment in 1862 James Hobrecht had planned. It is characterized by the neo-Gothic building of the Wedding District Court .
Location and shape
Brunnenplatz is a 33,060 m² square in Gesundbrunnen directly on the banks of the Panke . Streets that limit it are Pankstraße, Schönstedtstraße and Thurneysserstraße. The square is rectangular, but is divided into two parts by the building of the district court. Behind the district court towards the Pankelauf there is a landscaped part, in front of the district court there is a small park with paths, a fountain and playgrounds.
history
The location right on the Panke made for a swampy , boggy terrain. Possibly the mill that belonged to the Vorwerk Wedding stood there in the Middle Ages . Even after the adjacent streets were already densely built on, agriculture continued to be practiced on the later Brunnenplatz , as the builders at the time considered it too expensive and too risky to want to build larger structures on the marshy subsoil. In Hobrecht plan of 1862 the place appears as space K on. It was laid out as the main square in eastern Wedding. It got its name in 1896 after the Luisenquelle , the nearby healing spring, which later gave its name to the entire district of Gesundbrunnen. Originally, the square was located exclusively in front of the district court, as Orthstrasse still ran behind the office building towards the Panke.
The first development on the edge of the square took place in 1901. The city of Berlin had bought the land of Brunnenplatz from the Prussian state in order to build the district court of the future Wedding district there. The unsafe subsoil caused problems and delays, so that construction was not completed until 1906. The area around the district court should be landscaped. First plans by Hermann Mächtig and Friedrich Krause were not implemented; It is not known who the then implemented plan came from. Krause's plans envisaged a central round section in the middle of the square and a network of paths that was diagonally aligned to the district court. The plan that was actually implemented, on the other hand, was rectangular in shape with a parallel network of paths on the square and a fountain on a lawn border.
The horticultural design of the square took place between 1906 and 1908. Similar to the design of the district court, the completion of the square was also delayed. The main reason for this, however, was that 100 trees that had been transplanted from the Humboldthain died on Brunnenplatz after a short time. The originally planned playgrounds were not built.
During the Second World War , the square served as garden land to supply the population, so that the design of the square began all over again after the war. The designs now went back to the garden planner Günther Rieck , who this time had the originally intended play areas laid out, but dispensed with the fountain. The abolition of Orthstrasse allowed the area behind the district court to be included in the park, which, however, was more based on landscaped gardens with loosely curved paths and individual groups of trees.
The heavy use of the square, which was not foreseen in 1949, led to a redesign in the 1980s as part of the preparations for Berlin's 750th anniversary . The decisive factor here was the division into several separate functional areas, each of which should serve different user groups. It was created around a 40 cm lower lawn parterre with rose borders and set spherical yew trees. The jewelry area was given a round, 13 meter diameter [[List of fountains in Berlin-Wedding | granite fountain]] with an eight meter high fountain. The design comes from the landscape architect Michael Hennemann, who worked closely with the monument preservation office; now the square has been entered in the list of monuments of the state of Berlin as a garden monument. A structurally very similar fountain on Leopoldplatz fell victim to another redesign of the square in 2013, as it was perceived by the citizens as being slightly littered. The two playgrounds were separated into one space for larger and smaller children. In addition, there was a Bolzwiese, a relaxation area with planted tree vases and a special area with a bronze statue of Flora . However, this figure was knocked from its pedestal on a February night in 2001 and suffered severe damage. Due to lack of funds, it was not restored. The sub-areas are separated by rows of trees and bushes, and they are connected by mosaic paved paths. The entrance area to the grass ground floor received a mosaic-paved representation of the Weddinger coat of arms and the intersections of the main axes mosaic pavement of Weddinger's partner cities . The inauguration of the redesign took place on July 6, 1987.
Adjacent buildings
In addition to the district court, there are some school, administration and business buildings on the square. Diagonally across from the local court on the square were Theodor Hildebrand & Sohn's chocolate factory and Hildebrandt's luxuriously furnished house. After the Hildebrandtschen chocolate factory went bankrupt, the factory finally came to a standstill. The entire area came to the furniture store chain Höffner , which built a large furniture store here. The adjoining school building was opened as a Schillergymnasium in 1906 and destroyed in the Second World War. In 1956, the Diesterweggymnasium moved to a newly constructed building on the property, but it left this location ten years later. In 1992 the first secondary school moved in here , which has been called the Willy Brandt secondary school since 1993 .
Web links
- Fountain square. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Gerd KIttelmann, Brigitte Prévot: Brunnenplatz . In: District Office Wedding of Berlin (Ed.): Stadtplatz im Wedding . Berlin 1991, p. 25-29 .
- ↑ Bernd Schirmler: The district court, Brunnenplatz. In: Berlin Wedding. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (Ed.): District Mitte districts Wedding and Gesundbrunnen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Berlin ). Imhof, 2004, ISBN 3-937251-26-X , p. 126-128 .
- ↑ Brunnenplatz (without number) . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1922, IV (up to seven families lived in the courthouse, including a bailiff, a law enforcement officer, a stoker, a caretaker, etc.).
- ↑ List, map, database. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on January 13, 2017 .
- ↑ 5 ways to get your feet wet in Wedding. In: Weddingweiser. August 11, 2015, accessed May 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Gerhild HM Komander: The Wedding: on the way from red to colored . Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-929829-38-9 , pp. 51-52 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 35 ″ E