Chausseestrasse

Chausseestrasse
Street in Berlin
View from the Oranienburger Tor to Chausseestrasse, 2007
Basic data
place	Berlin
District	center
Created	in the 17th century
Hist. Names	Ruppiner Heerweg, Ruppiner Strasse, Oranienburger Landstrasse, Allee to Oranienburg
Connecting roads	Friedrichstrasse (southeast) , Müllerstrasse (northwest)
Cross streets	(Selection) Hannoversche Strasse, Torstrasse , Zinnowitzer Strasse, Schwartzkopffstrasse , Liesenstrasse , Boyenstrasse
Places	no
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length	1700 m

The Chausseestraße in Berlin's Mitte district is the oldest street in the Oranienburger suburb . Around 1.7 kilometers long, it leads from Friedrichstrasse in the southeast to Müllerstrasse in the northwest. In its course there are numerous remarkable buildings and cemetery facilities in Berlin, some of which are registered as listed buildings . The first early capitalist heavy industry in Prussia arose along this road after 1800 , followed by the country's first railway production facilities. Until the end of the Second World War , Chausseestrasse was part of the inner-city business area.

Location, naming

Chausseestrasse begins at the Torstrasse / Hannoversche Strasse intersection in the Mitte district , where the Oranienburger Tor stood until 1867 . It runs in a north-westerly direction and is thus part of the former Oranienburger suburb. It ends in the district of Wedding on the Nordpanke , the former Schönhauser Graben.

In the urban development plan (StEP) it is entered as a local road connection (StEP III) between Oranienburger Tor and Invalidenstrasse , and between Invalidenstrasse and the transition to Müllerstrasse as a higher-level road (StEP II). The lots are numbered in horseshoe numbering with some numbers left out and other lots divided. Chausseestrasse has the street number 6093. The properties on both sides of the street in Mitte have the zip code 10115, for the western properties 13353 applies.

Chausseestraße 37 (Ernst Hänsisch cork factory and stroller shop)

history

Chausseestrasse in the Oranienburger Vorstadt, land map from 1884

Border crossing at Chausseestrasse, view towards Wedding, 1964

The name of the street is a tautology : a road is the synonym for a paved road . The connecting route between old Berlin and Tegel , named as Ruppiner Heerweg until 1750 , as Ruppiner Straße and Oranienburger Landstraße or Allee after Oranienburg until 1800 , was expanded as a paved artificial road around 1800 . Based on the name originating from France , the street was then called Chausseestraße or Oranienburger Chaussee . A request submitted by the residents in 1861 to rename the street Humboldtstrasse because of the tautology was rejected by the magistrate ; previously, a newly created harbor basin at the nearby Spreebogen had been named Humboldthafen . A city map by cartographer Jean Chrétien Selter from 1804, published with the permission of the Academy of Sciences , already listed the names Chausseestrasse and Invalidenstrasse . An address book from 1812 mentions a Chausseehaus on Chausseestrasse . It was located on the north corner of what would later become Habersaathstrasse and served the road keeper as an apartment and office from which he collected the road money.

In 1812 the plots were numbered from 1 to 79. In 1878 the police headquarters registered 122 parcels on a map. The house numbers that have been in effect since the late 1990s start southeast at the corner of Torstrasse and Chausseestrasse 1 and run in horseshoe numbering to the northwest to number 75 on the north pank and then on the opposite southwest side of the street from Chausseestrasse 76 to number 131 back at the Oranienburger Tor .

An overview of the property locations can be found on Straubeplan IVA and IVG from 1910. The front width of the residential and apartment buildings is partly 20 meters, partly 13 meters. Deviating from this is the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtische Theater (30, 31) with 60 meters of street front, with 40 meters the "First Warrior Club House" on property 94, followed by 94 meters of street run by the Grützmacher with the barracks of the Guard Fusilier Regiment and the plots 95-97 and the corner house 98 on Kesselstrasse (Habersaathstrasse). The churchyard of the French community on plot 127 occupies 95 meters of street frontage. Further buildings with public buildings are on plots 23 (40 meters), 64 bordering the Panke (30 meters) and at number 110 the Germania splendor halls with 36 meters of street frontage . At 53 meters along the road, plot 128/129 is marked as undeveloped or construction site.

From 1961 to 1990 the Berlin Wall separated an approximately 280-meter-long section of the road to the northwest. It ran here on the south side of Liesenstrasse to the border checkpoint and then followed the western side of Chausseestrasse to Boyenstrasse, where it continued on the northern sidewalk in the direction of the Berlin-Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal . The strictly controlled and, over the years, increasingly sophisticated border crossing at Chausseestrasse was located between the Krieger-Vereinhaus Chausseestrasse 94, the Südecke Liesenstrasse and the north corner of the Wöhlertstrasse.

Development (selection) and historical references

Down the east side of the street

House numbers 1–21

In 1886 the main factory of A. Borsig Maschinenbauanstalt Chausseestraße 1, which stretched along Torstraße to Borsigstraße, was closed

The street begins at number 1 at the confluence of Torstrasse with the residential and commercial building built in the neo-baroque style between 1888 and 1889, in the place of which there was previously the colonnade entrance to the Borsigwerk, that is, to the August Borsig mechanical engineering company . Above a rounded corner of this lot, Corinthian three-quarter columns dominate the facade over two floors, which is made of plaster and has some stucco ornaments . There are two sales facilities on the ground floor, which has been structurally changed several times. Until 1990 a liquor store and the Humboldt pharmacy offered their goods and services here.

After removing the entrance colonnades of the Borsigwerk, the corner house was built here in 1888/1889.

In the 19th century, the eastern side of Chausseestrasse formed a focus of Berlin's mechanical engineering industry. The area was called Tierra del Fuego because of the many chimneys (see the list of the individual businesses there). This industrial area was originally located in front of the Oranienburger Tor and thus outside the border of the city of Berlin, which expanded towards the end of the 19th century. Factories that were first built here on the outskirts were therefore later relocated to larger areas further outside the city, for example the Borsig company moved to Tegel . A coherent residential and commercial development then developed along Chausseestrasse, while factories or workshops remained in some backyards, but new ones were also added.

Remnants of the locomotive factory on the yard

Entrance portal of the joint stock company for the manufacture of railway supplies in the then house number 11, where Schlegelstrasse has merged into Chausseestrasse since 1877; around 1870

Borsighaus at Chausseestrasse 13

Staircase in the Borsighaus; Beuth model locomotive , Borsig serial number 24 from 1844

The air raids of World War II left many gaps in the rows of houses along Chausseestrasse that were closed both during the GDR era and after reunification, for example numbers 2-4. The following houses up to Tieckstrasse, built around 1900 on the former factory site of Borsig and Egells with historicizing stucco facades, lost their architectural decorations during the GDR era . Behind the tenement houses at Chausseestraße 5–10 are 19th century factories. The halls behind houses 9 and 10 are the last remnants of the Egells mechanical engineering company, who founded the first private bourgeois iron foundry in Prussia here in 1826 . Later August Borsig and other well-known company founders also worked in the mechanical engineering institute and continued their education. These now renovated production and workshop buildings are used in a variety of ways and marketed as an old locomotive factory or as a piano factory . In 1901 this factory building including the property at Chausseestrasse 5 was sold to the then respected piano manufacturer Adolf Knöchel - a pupil of Carl Bechstein - who manufactured pianos there until 1929. Alongside other companies in the media sector, the advertising agency Scholz & Friends had their Berlin headquarters here for a long time. After a tile mosaic display in the passage, the civil engineering combine (TK) had a small branch in the halls in the GDR era. The best-known user of the courtyard building was the celebrity chef Sarah Wiener , who ran Sarah Wiener's dining room here for several years . House No. 8 is home to the first Rutz restaurant in Berlin to be awarded a three-star restaurant in the 2020 Michelin Guide , managed by chef Marco Müller .

August Borsig had Tieckstrasse built in the middle of the 19th century after purchasing the property at Chausseestrasse 5 in the immediate vicinity of his competitor Anton Egells. The street was named shortly after both factory founders died in 1854. To the north of Tieckstrasse, Borsig owned other properties on Chausseestrasse, on which the company's striking administration building was built in 1899 ( Borsig-Haus , number 13). The building in neo-renaissance style with a historicizing sandstone facade was built according to plans by the architects Konrad Reimer and Friedrich Körte . It continues on the courtyard side in two simple building wings. The street front is decorated with two two-storey bay windows under a copper-covered tail hood and a life-size bronze figure of the company founder (AB) in the shape of a blacksmith above the driveway. On the triangular gable , the inscription “A. Borsig ”to the company's founder August Borsig and his son Albert, who died in 1878. In addition to a few historical pieces of furniture, the steel, walk-in company safe has been preserved in the front building.

At the corner of Schlegelstrasse and Chausseestrasse Friedrich August Pflug had acquired a larger area on which his stock corporation for railway supplies (formerly: F. A. Pflug ) mainly produced railway wagons. As a result of the stock market crash of 1873, the company went bankrupt in 1875 , and the factory premises were cleared and parceled out. Schlegelstrasse and Eichendorffstrasse were laid out here in 1876.

From 1919 to 1961, the then famous Astra cinema was located in the back of the Wilhelmine residential and commercial building at Chausseestrasse 16 . The simple facade of the house at Chausseestrasse 17, which was built in 1891 and has since been declared a monument, has a magnificent staircase that has been renovated in the meantime. The rear building including the side wing also has well-preserved stucco facades .

At Chausseestraße 18 there is access to the Schlot art factory , a jazz cellar.

Former Hafenbar , Chausseestrasse 20, demolished around 2016

In the further course of Chausseestrasse there was the two-storey house with number 20 in simple forms, which probably came from the first construction period in the early 19th century and housed the Hafenbar dance hall until 2016 . After the well-known bar moved out, an investor acquired the entire property, together with an undeveloped area in the adjacent Invalidenstrasse (no. 113).

A multi-storey office building consisting of several components was to be built here in 2017/2018.

In the following corner house, built around 1890, there was a tobacco shop on the corner on the ground floor for a long time. In the remaining rooms on the lower two floors of both houses (Chausseestrasse 20 and 21, formerly: 14 and 15) Max Fabisch & Co had their women's clothing store from 1891 to 1939 , in which they also ran a factory for women's coats. The house at Chausseestraße 20 was thus repeatedly rebuilt for various purposes. From 1940 to 1943, the address books then registered the Stolzenburg women's fashion store in the same place . Between 1950 and 1990 there was a paint and wallpaper specialist shop in Chausseestrasse 21 on two floors, after which the ground floor was converted by a French snack bar.

House numbers 22-36

Building on the corner of Chausseestraße 22 / Invalidenstraße

At the busy intersection with Invalidenstrasse, two of the four corner houses are listed. The residential and commercial building at Chausseestrasse 22 with the neo-baroque sandstone facade on the north corner dates from 1891. Before the Second World War , the shoe store of Romeo Schuh-AG was located here on the two lower floors . In the 1950s there were other shops on the ground floor as well as a photographer and portrait painter and a doctor's practice on the first floor. In 1990 a travel agency was established. When, after a few years of vacancy, an investor began to renovate the building, in March 2004 the upper floors including the roof structure were destroyed, presumably by gas bottles in storage, in a major fire that had to be extinguished by around 150 firefighters. The subsequently renovated and rebuilt house was given an open arcade along Invalidenstrasse in the ground floor area by reducing the size of the retail space . Behind it was a restaurant and other shops.

Photo montage with the facades of Schering's pharmacy house and the BMAG administration building in front of the current house number 22/23

Vattenfall had built a new building for its Vattenfall Europe branch on plots 23/24 and had the listed building at Chausseestrasse 25 on the north corner of Zinnowitzer Strasse renovated. The outer surface of the new building is occasionally used for large-scale animated images.

Before the Second World War , house number 23 (old number 20/21) was the headquarters of the Berliner Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft formerly L. Schwartzkopff, Berlin (BMAG) . Next door at Chausseestrasse 24 (originally No. 17) Ernst Schering founded his pharmaceutical company in 1851 by renaming Schmeisser's pharmacy to “Green Pharmacy”. Richard Schering, son of the founder, replaced the small pharmacy in 1893 with a larger pharmacy (then No. 19), which stood here until the Second World War.

At the confluence of Zinnowitzer Strasse and Chausseestrasse, the row of houses continued uninterrupted until 1906. Chausseestraße 21 (later number 25) belonged to BMAG as early as 1875, which in 1899 also bought number 20, to the left of Schering's house, in order to have it removed in 1906 for the short street to Szczecin train station, and the building on the new street corner of your office building. This office building at Chausseestrasse 25, built by Theodor Jaretzki for BMAG in 1908, has been preserved and is a protected monument. In 1923 Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik GmbH (MSF) acquired the building on the corner of Zinnowitzer Strasse and set up its company headquarters here, where mainly Linotype typesetting machines were produced. After its restoration and modernization, the building, which was only slightly damaged in World War II, now houses a branch of the Deutsche Post on the ground floor , for which parts of the large former post office N4 were relocated from the street Am Nordbahnhof. For this purpose, an entrance had to be created at the corner of the house, which did not exist before.

In the ground floor areas of the old buildings at Chausseestrasse 27-29 there is an antiquarian bookshop , a bakery and a tobacco / newspaper shop. There was a photo studio here even before the Second World War. From 1945 to around 1955, police station  4 was on the first floor of number 29.

The free space on plot number 30/31, which existed until 2012, hid the remains of an underground bunker from the 1940s. This was at the point where Carli Callenbach's summer theater was to be found in Hennigs Gaerten (a beer garden ) after the March Revolution of 1848 . The later Woltersdorff Theater was also domiciled here and had emerged from the summer theater. It was transformed into the Schillertheater-Nord and the Friedrich Wilhelmstädtisches Schauspielhaus and from 1913 into a film theater with 1000 seats, the Cines-Willhelmstädtisches Theater , then from 1926 to 1939 the Metro-Palast-Theater GmbH (light plays). The lot numbering in the street changed in the second half of the 19th century. When the house at Chausseestraße 30/31 was still number 25/26, the large Tivoli concert café with 2500 seats was located on the ground floor of number 25 .

In the Wilhelmine residential and commercial building at Chausseestrasse 32 with its rows of balconies, which has been preserved, there was a drugstore with a photo shop in the 1960s.

OTIS factory in Chausseestrasse 35 (formerly: Flohr ) in 2004

The new buildings at Chausseestrasse 33 to 35 now hide the view of Carl Flohr's former factory from the street. Recording 2011

Chausseestrasse 49 with the faded liquor advertisement from 1949/1950 at the Schwartzkopffstrasse underground station ; Photo 2008

Behind the new buildings at Chausseestraße 33, 34 and 35 (original number 23) opposite Habersaathstraße are the listed factory buildings by Sigl and Flohr , which were converted into condominiums in 2010 and 2011. The factory buildings erected in 1844 were used by G. Sigl to manufacture printing machines. In 1887, Theodor Lissmann and Carl Flohr bought the factory buildings from Sigls Erben and in April 1888 they moved their machine factory from Grosse Frankfurter Strasse to Chausseestrasse 28b (later number 35). Around 1890, Carl Flohr took over the company as the sole owner, had it structurally expanded between 1900 and 1908 and built elevators and paternoster lifts in the factory . In 1951, the Carl Flohr company merged with the New York elevator company Otis to form the German Flohr-Otis GmbH and moved to Reinickendorf . The plant on Chausseestrasse, on the other hand, continued to be operated as VEB Elevator and Escalator Construction until it was sold by the owner Otis in 2009, 20 years after the political change . Like other property numbers in the street, the above-mentioned number 23 was changed several times from 1850 to 1907 and has been numbered 35 since then. In front of number 33 there is a listed water pump. It was set up around 1895, mainly to water the many horses of the time. When Berlin lay in ruins after the Second World War , people stood in line with buckets for clean drinking water at this and all other hand pumps. It was stored during the new building at Chausseestrasse 33–35. After re-erection, she had her pump arm on the other side.

The now structurally heavily neglected residential and commercial building at Chausseestrasse 36 (formerly number 29) was built with its two rear side wings in 1887. Until the 1960s, the front building still had a Wilhelmine stucco facade, which, however, was already in great need of repair. There used to be Wolff & Co. behind the house as well as Tietzsch & Co. iron foundries and Schwabenthan & Co. machine factory , the latter until the 1920s. Various shops have existed in the front building over the years; in the 1950s and 1960s there was still a bicycle shop, a hairdresser and the small then popular ice cream parlor Piketti .

House numbers 37-75

Chausseestrasse 37 (1913)

The houses at Chausseestrasse 37–39 from the middle of the 19th century stood until after German reunification . Behind them there were courtyards paved with field stones until the 1960s , where small workshops were located. When polytechnic instruction was introduced in East Berlin elementary schools around 1956 , the surrounding schools used these historical workshops to teach wood and metalworking. The unused and largely cleared area (as of 2012) at Chausseestrasse 37–44 is waiting to be renovated. The premises of the Breslau wheat beer brewery from 1860 to 1912 , from which the Engelhardt brewery emerged, was located on the former property at Chausseestraße 33 (today No. 40?) .

On the property at Chausseestrasse 42 there is a factory that was built in 1910 based on a design by Max Richter and has been vacant since around 2004. The Medical Equipment Factory (MGF) was located in these buildings in the 1950s, and then during the GDR era, the VEB Secura-Werke company, which was part of the VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt, produced cash register and duplication technology. After the conversion of the company from 1990 onwards, some smaller successor institutions were created that looked for other locations. The main complex on Chausseestrasse was used by a Turkish association for several years . The association had applied for a building permit to build a hotel, but put the plans on hold until the 2010s. Since the new BND headquarters opposite was almost finished, the historic 'factory parts have been torn down and a Titanic Hotel built.

The rear factory buildings approach the Caroline-Michaelis-Straße, which was only laid out in 2001, where the large railway area of ​​the Szczecin train station used to be . In the left wing of number 42 there was the Patschke bathing establishment , where families without shower or bathing facilities could rent cabins with bathtubs and running warm water by the hour. The bathing establishment was in operation until 1950, when the front buildings had long been in ruins. According to the Berlin plan of the Königl. Preuss. The large General Staff from 1857 also housed the small mechanical engineering institute of Runge here and, to the northwest, the larger Wöhlert factory . The mechanical engineering company, which was founded in 1842 and closed in 1883, was located where the properties at Chausseestrasse 43/44 (then number 36/37) and Schwartzkopffstrasse, laid out in 1888/1889, are.

Hugo Freyberg established himself on the property at Chausseestrasse 44 at the corner of Schwartzkopffstrasse in the 19th century, operating under the name of Berliner Hundepark and Hof-Supplier . He dealt with numerous pedigree dogs and also sold drugs against dog diseases.

In 1945 there were numerous war ruins in the rows of houses opposite the former barracks. The residential buildings at Chausseestrasse 44–47 - set back a few meters from the old house front - were rebuilt during the GDR era. On plot 48, the trees in front of these houses hide another backyard factory, which was renovated as a studio house by 2001 and then rented out in eight individual studios.

The adjacent house at Chausseestrasse 49 shows a faded advertisement for a bitter liqueur made by the manufacturer Paul Pöschke in 1949/1950, when liqueur production started again in Berlin. The house number 49 with three backyards had survived here. In the meantime, new houses have been built up to Wöhlertstrasse and the old buildings have been renovated.

Entrance to the former border strip at Chausseestraße 58 (right) with the border troops' path

A commemorative plaque on the course of the Wall at the corner of Chaussee and Boyenstrasse is embedded in the floor

In the area between Chausseestrasse and Liesenstrasse and the cathedral parish cemetery , remains and traces of the border installations of the Berlin Wall can be discovered at the former checkpoint on Chausseestrasse. This includes a section of the asphalt patrol route of the border troops (Kolonnenweg), a row of posts that served to anchor the segments of the hinterland wall on the East Berlin side, the steel pillars of the former entrance gate to the wall strip, as well as grids, lights and white color markings on the fire wall of the house Chausseestrasse 58. In addition, concrete slabs from the former hinterland wall that had been dismantled for several years were stored here. Structural remnants of the actual checkpoint were removed in 2008 when the petrol station was built on the former abandoned site. What has been preserved are five whip lights arranged in pairs along Chausseestrasse, which once illuminated the checkpoint.

The Tietz department store burned out completely in 1929.

After an art campaign carried out in 1996 to commemorate the border crossings, the Senate also had an information board set up here on the corner of Liesenstrasse and a row of double paving stones with embedded iron plates laid in the sidewalks and in the street asphalt, which mark the course of the former wall. To remind one more of the inhumanity of this border , brass-colored rabbit silhouettes designed by the artist Karla Sachse were also embedded in the road surface in 1998/1999 , symbolizing that people were shot here, but not rabbits.

Eight years before the Wall was built, there had been the uprising of June 17 at the Chausseestrasse border crossing in 1953 , when thousands of striking steel workers from Hennigsdorf came here from Reinickendorf. The barracks of the border guards next to the warrior club house were burned down, shots could be heard in the tumult and the people's police were chased away. Towards evening Soviet tanks moved in, the curfew was imposed in East Berlin and the next morning all free spaces were again occupied by Russian troops and heavy artillery - as after the end of World War II . The border with the western sectors of Berlin was temporarily closed for a few weeks, but then reopened.

Former Stein department store on Chausseestrasse 66.
Card text: "Sends a warm greeting, as you didn’t let yourself be seen on Saturday from Berlin M. Johnke, which I did not love"

Opposite the petrol station - on the other side of Liesenstrasse - begins the Pankepark , where lot numbers 62–66 were not reassigned after 1945. Here, near the corner of Liesenstrasse, the bed of the Panke used to run under Chausseestrasse. For the underground construction in 1926, the Panke was laid in a culvert deep under the street and the underground shaft. After the wall was built, the culvert on the GDR side was destroyed in order to prevent escape opportunities. Pankewasser has not reached the Mitte district in this way since 1962. Around the year 2000, plans began to relocate the Panke as open water (now referred to as Südpanke) and the culvert was restored. The open tour of the small river begins again southwest of Chausseestrasse, behind the houses at number 92.

Up until the Second World War, there was a Bockbier brewery on the plot of Chausseestraße 64 / corner Liesenstraße along the Panke , which operated one of the largest beer gardens in northern Berlin.

Reunification concrete sculpture , created in 1962 by Hildegard Leest and set up in a small park at the confluence with Liesenstrasse; in the background the house at Chausseestrasse 86

When the horse-drawn tram started on Chausseestrasse in 1865 , the merchant Wilhelm Stein had a two-story department store built on the property at Chausseestrasse 66 of the former owner Barschel . The Berlin address books indicate that he had this house extended in 1903 by purchasing number 65; while maintaining the characteristic window facade and building height. From 1908 the address books registered the department store with the previous number 65/66 as number 70/71. Twenty years later, in 1928, Stein sold the department store to Hermann Tietz's expanding company . At the beginning of 1929 the house burned down completely, but was rebuilt on the same place with five floors. Until the aryanization of the company in 1933 it was called Hermann Tietz and then Hertie with the property number 69–71 at the time.

Looted and demolished at the end of the war, the department store was repaired immediately after the currency reform and reopened as Hertie (Kaufhaus des Weddings). It was like this until the beginning of the 1970s and then - because of the construction of the wall diagonally opposite - it was closed and demolished. Then the side of the street up to Schulzendorfer Strasse was renovated and new residential buildings were built. This row of residential buildings, built around 1980, and the adjoining U-shaped residential complex also extend to the north-western end of Chausseestrasse, where a social station with day care and care for the elderly is located at numbers 72–75.

To the northwest, the street ends in front of the former Schönhauser Graben , which is now known as Nordpanke . The water of this Pankekanal pours over a small slope into the receiving water basin at the north port of the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal . The Schönhauser Graben originally extended to the Spreebogen west of the Charité . According to Nicolai's Berlin Guide from 1769, he made it possible for the king to take a walk from Charlottenburg Palace to Schönhausen Palace . The ditch certainly also served to regulate sporadic floods in the southern pank.

Down the west side of the street

House numbers 76–98

View from Chaussee- into Boyenstrasse, 1989

View from Chausseestrasse onto Boyenstrasse,
roughly the same location; shows u. a. the motorhome station

The first building on the western side of the street is the three- story Hertie parking garage with the numbers 77/78. It was built shortly after the Wall was built to lure West Berlin customers by car into the then almost empty department store. Although the department store has long since ceased to exist, the multi-storey car park continues to serve its purpose for the nearby soccer field and the Erika-Heß-Eisstadion behind it, which is already part of Müllerstrasse .

Of the buildings 76–83 between Panke and Boyenstraße, 79 were complete in 1950, 80 in the rear and 82 were still preserved. The corner houses on Boyenstrasse were destroyed in the Second World War, only in the remaining factory building at the north corner was there a fuel distillery . The path that was greened in the 1960s begins on the corner of Chausseestrasse 83 on the north side of Boyenstrasse. The Polo cinema was located in the demolished house number 79 from 1912 to 1961. In the 1950s, the long, narrow cinema in the rear wing opposite Hertie was one of the many border cinemas in Berlin . The Berlin-Mitte motorhome station , a parking space for travelers with caravans that moved to Tegel in 2016, existed on the cleared property at Chausseestrasse 79-82 . For the property at Chausseestrasse 82 / Boyenstrasse 1–9, the development plan III-34-2 Primary School Europacity was drawn up in 2017 and so decided. The Berlin architectural group Numrich Albrecht Klumpp won the planning competition and the Hitzler engineers were entrusted with project control and implementation. The state of Berlin is investing around 28 million euros in this new building, which is to become part of the large school building initiative . The new type of building, which does not have a basement and will have a triple sports hall, should be completed by the beginning of the school year 2022.

The Berlin Wall separated the district of Wedding (west) along the southeast side of Liesenstrasse, southwest side Chausseestrasse, northwest side Boyenstrasse from the city ​​district Mitte (east). The houses at Chausseestraße 84/85 ( Berlin-Mitte ) on the south corner of Boyenstraße belong to a new residential development, built in the mid-1990s on the former border strip. On the northern (Weddinger) side of Boyenstrasse, more than half of all 22 houses were destroyed in the Second World War, while on the southern side of the street, in the Mitte district, there were still around 18 of the original 24 houses the GDR border fortifications demolished. However, some of the rear factory buildings survived the times of the Wall.

Rest of the interior wall on the former border strip at Chausseestrasse 91 with an access gate

With the houses adjoining Chausseestraße 86-90 to the south, some old buildings have been preserved. These have been refurbished and several small commercial enterprises from the e-commerce sector have settled here, including a web startup (smaboo) . From 1994 to 2003, the Humboldt University's Geography Institute was located in the rear building at Chausseestrasse 86 , and in 2004 it moved to the Adlershof district .

The big fire on Chausseestrasse on June 30, 1897 caused a crowd at the corner of Liesenstrasse. At the top right you can see the corner houses on Boyenstrasse that were destroyed in World War II.

In the second half of the 19th century, the Aktienhof , where the AG for Public Carriage parked cabs, furniture vans and night buses, including numerous horse and carts, stretched from number 85-88 to the northwest along the Panke . According to newspaper reports at the time, a major fire occurred in a hay store here on June 30, 1897. The damage was great, there were injuries and around 35 horses perished in the flames.

The fallow land with the remains of the border fortifications, which had been preserved for a long time north of Chausseestrasse 92 after the fall of the Wall , has been further developed since 2010. The column path that existed here for the border troops during the GDR era, including the access gate, did not belong to the area of ​​responsibility of the control point. The border control point at Chausseestrasse was under the control of the GDR passport control units. During their patrols on the Kolonnenweg, the border troops left the wall strip through this side gate, bypassed the checkpoint on the East Berlin side and continued their patrol on the other side of Chausseestrasse. A green strip between number 87 and the as yet undeveloped land 89–91 was about to be completed in the summer of 2012. This extension of the Weddinger Pankepark, known as the Südpanke green corridor , leads west around the BND complex along the new Pankebett to Habersaathstrasse.

Entrance arches and decorated balcony parapets of the former warrior club house.
The arches from the rear building to the no longer existing ballroom building are recognizable.

The next building, Chausseestraße 94 with the sandstone facade, is the former First Warrior Association of the German Empire , which has been used as a residential and commercial building since the 21st century and is a listed building. The building complex was built between 1907 and 1910 based on a design by Conrad Faerber on the property of the former Berlin brewery company Tivoli , which had its ice cellar here. The originally military character of the house is clearly recognizable from its facade decoration with musical instruments from military bands as well as oak leaves and laurel wreaths . The iron crosses once contained in the wreaths were apparently removed after 1945. Although there are warrior or soldier associations in other countries, albeit under different names, this building certainly has a notorious history behind it. The front and rear buildings, including the side wings, which enclose a large courtyard, offered needy soldiers' families apartments of various sizes that were extremely modern and comfortable for the time. The comradeship associations with their military and political patrons were able to step through the archways of the front and rear buildings into the massive ballroom building behind the second courtyard. This pompously furnished rear building, in which there was an upper large ballroom for about 2000 guests, was badly damaged in the war and then demolished (now part of the rear playground). After Adolf Hitler was temporarily banned from speaking in Berlin because of his inflammatory speeches, Joseph Goebbels continued to provoke in the former Pharussal rooms at Müllerstrasse 142 and also here in the Krieger-Vereinhaus. Thousands of incited members of the SA and KPD fought the biggest hall and street battles that Berlin had ever seen and covered the city with murder, manslaughter and massive intimidation of the rest of Berlin. When the well-known pastor Stuck Goebbels interrupted his speech by heckling on May 4, 1927, he was brutally beaten out of the house. Later, Hitler was often courted in the warrior club house.

At the time of the Berlin Wall , the five front entrance arches of the house on the East Berlin side on the sector border were bricked up and only had small, locked steel doors. After the fall of the wall and a few years of vacancy, the Krieger clubhouse was extensively renovated between 2002 and 2005 with an additional underground car park under the inner courtyard. Since then, the front building has only had three open archways.

The postcard from 1910 shows from left to right:
corner of Kesselstraße (later Habersaathstraße) with the officers' mess, barracks, warrior club house and the tower of the Dankeskirche as well as No. 36 on the right and in front of it the low front building by Carl Flohr with the water pump described above.

The area adjoining the Krieger-Vereinhaus as far as Habersaathstrasse, where the new BND headquarters will be completed by 2016 , has a long and eventful history behind it. From around 1748 to 1820 it was the waiting area of the Invalidenhaus on Scharnhorststrasse that was supposed to contribute to the care of the inmates. Then it became the Grützmacher parade ground , on which three long barracks were erected between 1850 and 1853 , which soon became popularly known as cockchafer barracks , but were officially called the barracks of the Guard Fusilier Regiment . Due to the military downsizing prescribed by the Versailles Peace Treaty in Germany after the First World War , the entire site was handed over to the police in the 1920s. The barracks destroyed in World War II were demolished in 1949/1950. The associated police stadium was on the parade ground with Berlin ruin debris piled up, magnified and Walter Ulbricht Stadium expanded. The stadium opened on August 5, 1951 for the III. World Festival of Youth and Students . After its renovation, it was renamed Stadium of World Youth in 1973 on the occasion of the 10th World Festival . Numerous athletics competitions, major political events and football games were also held here. Between 1975 and 1989 it was a regular venue for the FDGB Cup final. The GDR national soccer team played 14 international matches here. The Peace Race stages completed since 1952 also at the stadium.

After the political change , the large sports stadium, which was no longer up-to-date, was completely cleared for the Berlin Olympic bid for the year 2000. After the application failed, a commercial sporting goods manufacturer set up beach volleyball courts as well as a course for BMX bikes and a tee for golf here. Since October 19, 2006, the new headquarters of the BND has been built on the large site according to plans by the architects Kleihues + Kleihues . The foundation stone was laid on May 7, 2008 and the topping-out ceremony took place on March 25, 2010.

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Between 2007 and 2010, the new sewage pumping station in Berlin Mitte , clad in red clinkers , was completed to the south of the Krieger clubhouse . Between this pumping station and the new technology and logistics center of the BND, the new Ida-von-Arnim-Strasse was inaugurated on March 4th, which connects the Chaussee and Scharnhorststrasse.

Northwest of the BND headquarters, at the other end of Ida-von-Arnim-Strasse, is the Bundeswehr Hospital in Berlin , the entrance of which is on Scharnhorststrasse. The oldest buildings in this hospital were built as a royal garrison hospital at the same time as the neighboring barracks in 1850–1853. During the National Socialist era , this building was given the status of the state police hospital . From the end of the Second World War until the fall of the Berlin Wall, it served as a hospital for the German People's Police and was enlarged and modernized from 1975 in close cooperation with the Charité .

South of the BND site follows the oldest side street of Chausseestrasse, Habersaathstrasse, which was called Kesselstrasse from 1833 to 1951 (after General von Kessel , a commandant of the Invalidenhaus). It was laid out on the order of Frederick the Great in 1748–1750 as an access avenue for his disabled house . On the north corner of Chausseestrasse, where the above-mentioned Chausseehaus initially stood, then the officers' mess of the cockchafer barracks and from 1951 to 2009 a gas station, the BND's school, boarding school and visitor center were built in the 2010s.

During the November Revolution there were three fatalities at the barracks on November 9, 1918, one of whom was the 24-year-old toolmaker Erich Habersaath . In 1951, Kesselstrasse was therefore renamed Habersaathstrasse. These three men, who came to the barracks on a march, were not the only victims of the November Revolution. A far worse event happened only a few days later, when another demonstration train wanted to go to the city center. On that day, troops from the cockchafer barracks sealed off the street at the corner of Invalidenstrasse with machine guns and fired into the crowd without warning. The result was the bloodbath in Chausseestrasse on December 6, 1918, with 16 dead and numerous injured.

House numbers 99–120

Houses on the south corner of Chausseestrasse and Habersaathstrasse, 2011

Houses at Chausseestraße 103 and 102 with Ballhaus Berlin

View of the courtyard with the former horse stable at Chausseestrasse 103

After the ruins of the destroyed corner house on the southern side of Habersaathstrasse were removed, a small green area was located here until the 1990s. An advertising pillar had stood on the pavement in front of it from the time of Emperor Wilhelm II until the new building was erected. In the Wilhelmine houses to the left there were all sorts of shops until the 1960s, number 100 had a small jewelry store on the right and a large barber shop on the left. At Chausseestrasse 101 there was the well-known pub Fehngrotte with its artificial stalactite ceiling and many small individual compartments for the guests.

The front building at Chausseestrasse 102 was destroyed in the Second World War, but its rear factory building with the green and white glazed brick facade remained intact. The Protestant parish of the Gnadenkirche found its domicile on the second floor of this rear building until around 2009, after its church building in Invalidenpark was bombed out and torn down around 1970. After reunification, a backpacker hostel was also established on the upper floors , which takes up most of the building above the Ballhaus. Before the war there were several small companies in this secret annexe , such as Laborat. Apparate GmbH and the chemical factory .

In the Wilhelminian house at Chausseestrasse 103 with the red facade there was a tobacco shop on the left and a bakery on the right, whose old craft business extended to the rear stables and the warehouse of a former grain dealer. The warehouse has been preserved and has a terracotta model of a horse's head on its outer wall . The warehouse, which is now used for other purposes, and the cast-iron wagon tracks in the hallway indicate that the previous owners regularly transported their goods and materials here by horse and cart.

On the right, the building of the Volks-Kaffee- und Speisehallen-Gesellschaft designed by Alfred Messel , Chausseestrasse 105

The monument of the former Volkskaffeehaus in Chausseestrasse 105, which is only a few meters away , also shows that Chausseestrasse was already a lively shopping and entertainment street from an early stage. The house, designed by Alfred Messel and built in 1892, was renovated after the political change while retaining its striking facade.

After the ruins of the front building at Chausseestrasse 106 had been cleared, a lower barrack-like building was erected here during the GDR era. The old rear buildings were renovated in 2009/10, a new garden house was added and the flat front building was replaced by a modern new building.

The smaller house at number 107 across from the entrance to the Naturkundemuseum underground station dates from the mid-19th century and survived the wars with its rear wing. Up until the 1960s, there was a small print shop on the front mezzanine floor.

The earlier houses 108/109, together with the east wing of the natural history museum behind them, suffered total losses in the Second World War. The museum's east wing was rebuilt from 2007-2010 with modern facilities of a taxidermy and glass alcohol preservation chambers.

Chausseestraße 110 opposite Zinnowitzer Straße is again a place with a notorious past. This inconspicuous large house was completed in 1891 and inaugurated for the Germania bakers guild . For those who could afford to take part in the events, the Germania Guild had their large concert hall equipped with huge chandeliers and called it the Hohenzollern Hall . The extremely conservative guild, which represented the interests of the bakery owners and masters, but not those of the journeymen and apprentices, made the age-old bakery trade one of the most backward professions even around 1900, by repeatedly trying to pass the laws that had long been passed in the Reichstag against 14 - to reverse 16-hour working days and child labor. Even the government loyal to the emperor therefore allowed other guilds of Germania to compete. In 1911, the lobbyists managed to make Germania the sole coercive guild in Berlin, which later also survived in the Nazi state that was brought into line. In the 1920s there was also a casino for the Pankgraf Society in this building .

Former building of the GDR Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the intersection of Chausseestrasse and Invalidenstrasse

Crossing Chaussee- / Invalidenstraße with a view to the south

The prominent six-storey building at Chausseestrasse 111–113 with a corner tower and a red and yellowish sandstone facade on the northwest corner of Invalidenstrasse has an arcade area . The building was built in the neoclassical style between 1954 and 1957 based on a design by Johannes Päßler for the administration of the GDR Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) and is now a monument. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry soon moved out again and later the building was taken over by the Machine Tools and Tools Company (WMW) until the fall of the Berlin Wall . The extension to Invalidenstrasse 36–39 took place in 1959–1961 according to a design by the architects Borchard and Balke. The Leibniz Association's office is located in the building section at Chausseestrasse 111 (as of 2012). The house numbering 111–113 arose from the fact that there used to be three smaller houses here, and a larger one was built in their place around 1912. From around 1918 until the house burned down in World War II, the C&A Brenninkmeyer clothing store, which is known to older Berliners, was located on the two lower floors . Since the walls of the burned-out house were still standing, it was expanded for the Chamber of Commerce in 1949/1950, and then completely rebuilt in a more luxurious style in 1954–1957.

Attica figures on the house at Chausseestrasse 117 of the former AG for automotive companies

Chausseestraße 114–118 in the direction of Invalidenstraße

Opposite, at the southwest corner of the intersection, were the Schwendy houses in Chausseestrasse 114/115, where small and large companies were temporarily domiciled, such as a cigar shop, the Commerz Disconto Bank and later even a car repair workshop. The Carl Stiller shoe store was located at Chausseestrasse 114 from 1918 until it was destroyed in World War II . On the fallow land that followed, the Humboldt University (HUB) had a prefabricated building constructed for the electronics and physics sections in the 1970s. When a new HUB campus was completed at WISTA Adlershof after 1990 , the natural science faculties moved there and the house described here was offered for sale. Apparently there were no interested parties and so the premises have been used by parts of the HUB administration since around 2000. During the summer months, a garden restaurant in the rear courtyard (numbers 114/115) offers its services. There is a physicist memorial here with the names of respected physicists who worked at the HUB on the curved wall.

In the Wilhelminian residential and commercial building at Chausseestrasse 116, which has now been renovated again, there was a backyard factory, in which various smaller companies sought their livelihood over the years, such as a lamp factory, medical apparatus company, screw factory, glazing and later a mail-order company and a joinery.

The AG für Automobilunternehmungen (AGA) had a building built on Chausseestrasse 117 with the first multi- storey car park in Berlin in 1913/1914 (presumably by the architects Arnold Kuthe and Samuel Fritz Goldmann) . Architecturally, the building stands out due to its four female attic figures on the fourth floor, the southernmost of which has a model of an automobile from the building period on its lap. The building is a monument.

Over the years, the two closed courtyards of the office building have housed a body shop, an electric vehicle express service, a bell foundry , the Karelli cigarette factory , an X-ray tube factory , Osram Glühlampen GmbH , and later also the Hanff & Buest chemical apparatus factory , a radio shop and the Commerz- und Privat-Bank resident. The company Konski & Kruger , the main producer of the key machine Enigma , had its headquarters there.

In the years 1913-1919 the Hotel Pommerscher Hof was located at Chausseestrasse 118 . For a long time there was a large war gap between the properties at Chausseestrasse 117 and 123, until shortly after 1980 the 100th department store in East Berlin was built at number 119/120  . The construction of this flat department store had been delayed a little because a crane fell on the unfinished hall. Set back a few meters from the house front, this department store stood until 2002, when the four-star Hotel Ramada was built here at Chausseestrasse 118–120.

But these properties also have a much longer industrial history, because Mathias Webers started his company as a machine builder on what was then parcel number 74 (in 1854 number 74 became number 99, which now corresponds to the properties on Chausseestrasse 119/120). Webers sold his mechanical engineering company to Emil Rathenau in 1865 . Later, after his travels to the USA , he went from mechanical engineering to a large-scale manufacturer of electrical goods. Just a few meters from here, on Schlegelstrasse, he founded the German Edison Society for Applied Electricity in 1883 and AEG in 1887 (the Berlin address books show how the property numbers and the comings and goings of companies changed in the period mentioned).

House numbers 121-131

View from Schlegelstrasse onto Chausseestrasse 121–123

Courtyard view at Chausseestrasse 123

In GDR times, a Spartacus memorial stone was set up in a small green area on the property at Chausseestrasse 121 on the free space adjacent to the south . Under symbolic flames on this stele is the name of SPARTAKUS in large letters with a quote from Karl Liebknecht and on the back it is pointed out that the Spartakusbund was founded at this place on January 1, 1916 as the nucleus of the Communist Party of Germany. Until the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, Liebknecht ran a law practice with his brother in the former house at Chausseestrasse 121. The house at Chausseestrasse 121 was destroyed in the Second World War. The memorial stone from the GDR era now stands next to the new building at number 121 and has thus been preserved as part of the eventful history of this street.

The front building at Chausseestrasse 123 stands out due to its art nouveau-like red sandstone facade. The elongated building furnished by Carl Galuschki in 1896 has two inner courtyards. Its wing structures are clad with red, yellow and white glazed brick patterns. From 1907 to 1911 the Bioskop studios , which are considered a forerunner of the Babelsberg film studio , used rooms under the roof. In 1912, two months after the sinking of the Titanic, the silent film In Nacht und Eis about this tragedy was filmed in one of these backyards . The front building housed the renowned academic bookstore Paul Schober for several decades , which was given up around 2000. The entire building complex was renovated by a private investor by 2008 and is marketed under the name Parkquartier Chausseestrasse . It is used for residential and business purposes. The plan is to further expand and set up a hotel in the wings of the building. This building complex is part of the listed ensemble Chausseestrasse 122–125.

Plaque at the memorial for Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel

Another architectural monument of this group of houses is the Brecht-Haus at Chausseestrasse 125, which from 1953 served as a living and working house for the married couple Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel . After her death, the Academy of Arts set up the Brecht-Weigel memorial here. The house itself, including the side wing, was completed in 1843 for the then head of the Berlin iron zinc works, making it the oldest surviving building on Chausseestrasse.

Houses at Chausseestraße 123–125 and the gate to the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof Chausseestraße 126 (left)

Catholic courts at Chausseestrasse 128/129 and the French cemetery at No. 127

Oranienburger Tor looking north into Chausseestrasse. On the right parts of the August-Borsig-Maschinenbauanstalt, behind it the Egell factory and the built-up north side of Tieckstrasse. On the left the area of ​​the cemeteries of the Friedrichswerder and Catholic communities is still undeveloped.

To the south of the Brecht house is the gate to the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof with the number 126. The gate is not a direct entrance to this cemetery, but leads over an approximately 65 meter long path between the houses at No. 125 and the French cemetery (Chausseestrasse 127) to him. Originally there were several cemeteries here at the southern end of Chausseestrasse, the grounds of which stretched from the Oranienburger Tor, along the communication at Neuer Thor (since 1891 Hannoversche Strasse) to Invalidenstrasse. The above-mentioned Berlin plans from 1804 and 1857 show the location of these cemeteries, which were laid out here on the order of Friedrich II between 1762 and 1780. The lack of space in the church yards in the city had become extremely acute at that time, not least because of the previous wars, in which the Great Frederick was no small part to blame. On the cemeteries of the Dorotheenstädtische / Friedrichswerderschen and French Reformed communities, which are now under monument protection, there are information boards pointing out the personalities who were buried here in earlier times.

Of the five cemeteries that existed here, the Charité cemetery was closed as early as 1856. The Friedrichswerdersche, located directly in front of the Oranienburger Tor, was taken over by the Dorotheenstädtischer around 1877 and then used for commercial purposes. Since then, there have been parcels of wood and cigar shops to rent on the corner of communication at Neuer Thor, and later a stone, iron, leather and linen shop was added. In 1887 the municipalities sold the old cemetery property and the new owners erected two large new buildings here in 1890, No. 122 and 123 (later No. 130/131).

Apparently the board of directors of St. Hedwig's parish also wanted to participate in the commercial success and therefore also closed its Catholic cemetery here in 1884. The small problem with the remaining graves was soon solved and plots could be rented out. Around 1906 a whole row of shops was built on plot 121 (later 128/129) with eight shops for various small businesses, such as Berliner Elektromobil Droschken AG (Bedag) , newspaper sales, sewing machines, bicycles, an inn and others. For the electric cabs, the accumulator factory located in the back at that time was certainly helpful. Business soon seemed to be doing so well that the community was able to have a large new building built on Chausseestrasse in 1911, No. 128/129, in which, among other things, the Dresdner Bank moved in. The family-run cigar and pipe shop H. Junghans and a music store had been in the extensive ground floor rooms of the house since 1921 and still in GDR times. The house built in 1911 has been preserved as part of the Catholic Courts and has since been renovated and modernized. After the fall of the Wall, more houses were built behind the historic building for the Catholic Academy with a conference center, the Church of St. Thomas Aquinas , consecrated in 1999, and the Hotel Aquino , the entrance of which is on Hannoversche Strasse.

Chausseestrasse 131 (2015)

After the houses at Chausseestrasse 130/131 had been built in 1890, the tenement houses were built as corner buildings lined up on three sides as far as Hannoversche Strasse. In the 1950s and 1960s there was a large photo shop at Chausseestrasse 130, where amateur photographers bought equipment and chemicals for developing their films, but also had the first color films developed. A Thai restaurant and sushi bar established itself here after 1990 . In the last house (Chausseestrasse 131) lived the artist and songwriter Wolf Biermann before his expatriation . After the fall of the wall, the Greenpeace group in Berlin set up a branch.

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  Renovated Wilhelmine staircase at Chausseestrasse 17

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  Fabisch women's clothing at Chausseestrasse 20/21, 1913

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  Refurbished factory building in Chausseestrasse 35, first backyard (formerly: Carl Flohr )

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  View of Chausseestraße 34 (right) to 39 (left) from Habersaathstraße. In the foreground left is the entrance to the former Walter Ulbricht Stadium, 1956.

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  Defunct house at Chausseestrasse 37 in 1913

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  Bakers' guild house Germania at Chausseestrasse 110, around 1900

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  The Nordpanke (also: Schönhauser Graben ) crosses under the north end of Chausseestrasse.

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  View from the north end of Chausseestrasse onto the Hertie car park and the buildings of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceutical AG
  (formerly: Schering )

Transportation

Naturkundemuseum underground station

The subway line U6 , later known as the North-South Railway until 1930, runs under Chausseestraße with the entrances and exits of three subway stations built in the middle of the street, which are now called Oranienburger Tor , Naturkundemuseum and Schwartzkopffstraße . They were built or rebuilt in 1913/1914 and 1919–1923 according to plans by the architects Heinrich Jennen , Alfred Grenander and Alfred Fehse . With the construction of the wall on August 13, 1961, they were only accessible to the GDR border troops until they reopened on July 1, 1990 as ghost stations .

In 1997 the driver of a car lost control, drove down a flight of stairs at the Schwartzkopffstrasse subway entrance and only came to a stop in front of an emergency telephone. The people involved suffered minor injuries. According to witnesses, the vehicle had not touched any wall of the exit.

Several tram lines ran above ground on Chausseestrasse. The turning loop of two metro lines led as a block bypass through Schwartzkopff, Pflug, Wöhlert and Chausseestrasse. Tram traffic has been shut down since August 2013.

Prominent residents

→ The house numbers correspond to the count in the early 2000s.

Stumbling blocks for the Jewish couple Happ in front of No. 6

• Franz Anton Egells (1788-1854). The industrialist lived in front of his factory premises in No. 3.
• Friedrich Wöhlert (1797–1877). The industrialist lived in no. 73b until 1836, then temporarily in no. 29–30. Wöhlertstrasse was named after him in 1889.
• August Borsig (1804-1854). Until 1836 the industrialist lived in Egells' company apartment at No. 3. In particular, he had his main factory on the corner of the Oranienburger Tor. Borsigstrasse was named after him in 1860.
• Friedrich Adolf Pflug (1810–1886). The industrialist lived in No. 11 until 1860. In 1889, Pflugstrasse was named after him.
• Ernst Schering (1824-1889). The pharmacist bought the Schmeißersche pharmacy in No. 21 in 1851 and lived there.
• Carl Flohr (1850–1927), manufacturer and engineer, lived from 1888 in front of his factory at Chausseestrasse 28b (now No. 35) in Georg Sigl's former two-story house.
• Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), Theodor Liebknecht (1870–1948). The two politicians ran a law firm at 121.
• Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken (1874–1942). The actor and director lived with his family in no.123 until 1934.
• Albin Köbis (1892-1917). The executed soldier lived in No. 16.
• Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), Helene Weigel (1900–1971). The artist couple lived in No. 125 next to the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof , where they are also buried.
• Wolf Biermann (* 1936). The songwriter lived at Chausseestrasse 131 until his expatriation in 1976 and recorded the record of the same name here.
• Hans-Olaf Henkel (* 1940). The industrial manager lives on Chausseestrasse.

Stumbling blocks have been remembering Martin and Sophie Happ in front of no.6 and Siegfried Lesh in front of no.117 since around 2000.

literature

• The architectural and art monuments of the GDR . Berlin, I. Ed .: Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, pp. 330–341.
• Old locomotive factory at Chausseestrasse 8 Berlin . Series: Die Neue Architekturführer , No. 51. Stadtwandel-Verlag, Berlin 2004.
• Peter Brock (ed.): Berlin streets rediscovered. 33 forays through the capital. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-114-2 ; Chausseestrasse. A corner with flair. Pp. 39-44.
• Helmut Börsch-Supan u. a .: The Chronicle of Berlin. Chronik Verlag 1986, pp. 135, 146, 219 and 359.
• Laurenz Demps : The mechanical engineering company of Franz Anton Egells and the New Berlin Iron Foundry - their significance for the industrialization of Berlin . Issue 1: Berlin History . City archive of the capital of the GDR, Berlin 1980.
• Ulla Galm: August Borsig . Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1987.
• Rudolph Hertzog: Berlin. C, Agenda 1910 . P. 86.
• Dietmar Arnold, Reiner Janick: Sirens and packed suitcases - everyday bunker life in Berlin. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2003, pp. 38–39.
• Gert J. Wlasich: From a chemist's shop to a multinational enterprise - A curriculum vitae Schering. Scheringianum, Berlin 1996.
• Ralf Schmiedecke: Wedding in the middle of Berlin . Sutton Verlag 2001, p. 95.
• Heinz Flesch: On the trail of the cinemas . In: Berlinische monthly 12/1996 at the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , pp. 32–37.
• Gerhard Heinicke: From the warrior club house to the invalids house . Heimatverein Berlin-Mitte e. V., 1997.
• Friedrich W. Lehmann: Berlin stroll around the turn of the century . Impuls Verlag Heinz Moos, Berlin / Heidelberg 1961, p. 134 u. 135.
• Sebastian Haffner: The betrayal . Verlag 1900, Berlin 2002, p. 105.
• Annette Godefroid: History of the Berlin Bakers' Guild 1272–1992 . Bakers' Guild, Berlin 1992, pp. 54 and 60.
• Klaus Weise: City Guide Atlas Berlin ., VEB Tourist Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1987, p. 90.
• JDF Rumpf: The latest guide through Berlin, Potsdam and Charlottenburg and their surroundings . Berlin 1836. Facsimile excerpt in volume 1: Berlin History, City Archives of the Capital of the GDR, Berlin 1980, pp. 58–65.

Web links

Commons : Chausseestraße (Berlin-Mitte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Chausseestrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  • Ruppiner Heerweg . In: Luise.
  • Ruppiner Strasse . In: Luise.
  • Oranienburger Landstrasse . In: Luise.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fbinter.stadt-berlin.de Regional reference system Chausseestrasse
2. ↑ Block map 1: 5000 (ISU5) Retrieved December 1, 2018
3. ↑ Proof of all roads . In: General housing indicator for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1835, part 4, p. 509.
4. ^ Jean Chrétien Selter: Floor plan of Berlin. Engraving from 1804, edition from 1811
5. ↑ ^{a b} Chausseestrasse . In: Salomo Sachs : General street and apartment indicator for the residential city of Berlin , 1812, Rosenthaler Vorstadt, Polizei-Revier XXIV., P. 469.
6. ↑ Straubeplan 1910 (also IVB and IVF)
7. ^ Border crossing at Chausseestrasse ( Memento from February 10th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) District Office Mitte; Retrieved February 28, 2009.
8. ↑ Monument House Chausseestraße 1.
9. ↑ Monument residential building and factory hall, Chausseestrasse 5
10. ↑ ^{a b} Berlin streets rediscovered ...
11. ↑ Guide Michelin 2020
12. ↑ Monument Borsighaus Chausseestrasse 13.
13. ↑ ^{a b} allekinos.com , accessed on November 17, 2012.
14. ↑ Architectural monument of the tenement at Chausseestrasse 17 with courtyard
15. ↑ Schlot homepage with all press releases ( memento of October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), status 2011. Accessed on September 16, 2012
16. ↑ Ritter Projects 2015 , accessed on April 2, 2019.
17. ↑ Architectural monument commercial building Chausseestraße 22 / Invalidenstraße 35.
18. ↑ Chausseestrasse 20/21 . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, part 3, p. 101. "19 (pharmacy) and 20/21 (BMAG)".
19. ↑ Chausseestrasse 17 . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1851, part 2, p. 21. “Schmeisser, Apotheker”.
20. ↑ Architectural monument commercial building at Chausseestrasse 25
21. ↑ Sigl, G. In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1850, part 1, p. 457. “Factory owner; Chausseestrasse 23 ".
22. ↑ Business Ad . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1888, part 1, p. 32.
23. ↑ display . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1892, business advertisements, p. 10.
24. ↑ Architectural monument of the former Flohr machine factory , Chausseestrasse 35
25. ↑ Chausseestrasse cultural monument (in front of number 33), water pump, by Otto Stahn around 1895
26. ^ Photo from the time of the subway construction 1907–1915. Chausseestrasse 37: Ernst Hänsisch cork factory and stroller shop, from January 20, 1913
27. ↑ Photos and text on VEB Secura , accessed on April 2, 2019.
28. ^ Sebastian Höhn: Business with the BND . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 28, 2013, p. 19.
29. ↑ Monument complex Chausseestraße 42, Secura-Werke, 1910
30. ^ Business advertisement from Hugo Freyberg's Berlin dog park . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1888, part 1, p. 57.
31. ^ ^{A b} Axel Klausmeier , Leo Schmidt : Wall remains - Wall traces. The comprehensive guide to the Berlin Wall . 3rd edition. Westkreuz-Verlag, Berlin / Bonn 2007 2004, ISBN 978-3-929592-50-4 , pp. 124-128.
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