Burgstrasse (Berlin)
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| View from the tram route to the south to the Berlin Cathedral | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | center |
| Created | 1690 |
| Hist. Names |
Behind the Heiligegeiststraße, behind the Wursthofe |
| Connecting roads | Small Presidential Street (north) , Vera-Brittain-Ufer (south) |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
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| Street length | 180 meters |
The Castle Road is a 180-meter-long street in the Berlin district of Mitte in the same district . It is located in the historic district of Alt-Berlin . Burgstrasse is one of the oldest traffic routes in Berlin and has had its name since the end of the 17th century.
course
The current course of Burgstrasse begins at the tram route in the north, at the intersection of Kleine Praesidentstrasse and Neue Promenade, and then runs around 180 meters near the banks of the Spree in a southerly direction to Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Strasse at Friedrichsbrücke . Until 1970, Burgstrasse ran from Friedrichsbrücke along the banks of the Spree to Mühlendamm.
Explanation of the name
At the end of the 17th century, Burgstrasse was named after the electoral castle from the 15th century on the opposite bank of the Spree , which was part of what was then Kölln .
history
In the Middle Ages , the street stretched along the east bank of the Spree on the edge of the Holy Spirit and Nikolaiviertel . The beginning was around today's Friedrichsbrücke and the end behind today's Rathausbrücke . The street names Hinter dem Wursthofe (near Pomeranzenbrücke, today Friedrichsbrücke) and An der Lange Brücke am Wasser (at the Rathausbrücke) are also known from this period .
Between 1702 and 1704 the palace of Count Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg was built from Burgstrasse to Poststrasse south of the Long Bridge according to plans by Schlüter . After his removal from office in 1711, it was combined with the adjoining post office as the “(old) post office”; Since 1702, Wartenberg had the title of "General Hereditary Chief Postmaster".
When the wall of the fortress was demolished around 1750 , the Burgstrasse was extended to what is now the Stadtbahn route . The southern part of the street was extended to the Mühlendamm Bridge and the entire Uferstraße was given its current name.
At Burgstrasse 19, Friedrich II founded an Ecole Militaire in 1765 .
At Burgstrasse 26 south of the Pomeranzenbrücke there was a complex of five houses in 1765, which was built by senior building officer August Gotthilf Naumann the Elder. J. for Daniel Itzig were converted into Palais Itzig. The son-in-law had his banking business " Mendel Oppenheim und Wolff " here. The palace was demolished in 1857 and the stock exchange building was built in the same place by the great-grandson of the then client, the architect Friedrich Hitzig .
In the second half of the 19th century, several Berlin hotels were temporarily located on Burgstrasse, which benefited from the attractive tourist and business location: Böttchers Hotel (No. 11), Cassels Hotel (No. 13, from 1891 No. 16) , the Hotel König von Portugal (1869: Burgstrasse No. 12), the Hotel de Saxe (1869: Burgstrasse No. 20) and the Börsen-Hotel (from 1880: No. 27 / 27a). Behind the Castle Road and the hotels mentioned stretched between the St. Mary's Church and the Nikolai Church , the Berlin old town , a bustling business district.
In 1895, the Circus Busch opened its parent company on Burgstrasse - between the Stadtbahn, Spree and the street. In 1937, the building had to give way to the National Socialists' plans for renovating the city center.
Towards the end of the Second World War , most of the buildings on Burgstrasse were destroyed by Allied air raids .
After the park on the Spree was laid out in connection with the new construction and renovation of the city center in the years 1965–1969, Burgstrasse was interrupted around 1970 in the area of the park, between Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse and Rathausstrasse, and along the former street laid out a promenade. The remaining sections kept the name Burgstrasse.
In 1978 the section of Littenstrasse between Burgstrasse and Spandauer Strasse was connected to Burgstrasse. The section on the banks of the Spree between Friedrichsbrücke and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße has been canceled. The palace hotel was completed here in 1979 and was given an initially nameless promenade on the banks of the Spree. The section between Rathausstrasse and Mühlendamm was also canceled and renamed the Spreeufer in 1984.
In 2001 the section between Friedrichsbrücke and Spandauer Strasse was renamed Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Strasse . In the same year, the demolition of the palace hotel and the construction of the CityQuartier DomAquarées , which opened in 2004, began. The promenade on the banks of the Spree in front of it was named Vera-Brittain-Ufer in 2016 .
Today there are old and new commercial buildings on the eastern side of the street. To the west of the street is James-Simon-Park and the banks of the Spree. The theological faculty of the Humboldt University is located on the corner of Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Straße .
literature
- Martin Mende: Burgstrasse . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , Issue 1/2010, pp. 337–340; accessed on June 6, 2016
Web links
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Burgstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- At the long bridge on the water . In: Luise. .
- Behind the Wursthofe . In: Luise.
- historical views of Burgstrasse in an interactive map. aktives-museum.de; accessed on February 22, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Christian Gädicke: Lexicon of Berlin. 1806, pp. 379 to 3891
- ↑ Mendel Oppenheim (1758-1820)
- ^ Jacob Jacobson: The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851. With additions for the years 1791–1809 . De Gruyter 1962, ISBN 3-11-000448-8 , p. 142
- ^ Johann Christian Gädicke: Lexicon of Berlin. 1806, p. 35. Bankers and changers. From the Jewish Nation, No. 26: Mendel Oppenheim and Wolff , in Burgstrasse. "Among these are very important houses that have full credit in the trading world."
- ↑ press release. District Office Mitte, February 3, 2016
- ↑ hu-berlin.de ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 18 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 2 ″ E