Dörpfeldstrasse

Dörpfeldstrasse
Street in Berlin
Basic data
place	Berlin
District	Adlershof
Created	in the middle ages
Newly designed	around 1880
Hist. Names	Dorfstrasse, Cöpenicker Strasse, Bismarckstrasse
Connecting roads	Ottomar-Geschke-Strasse (northeast) , Rudower Chaussee (southwest)
Cross streets	(from NE to SW) Freystadter Weg (only northwest) , Waldstraße (NW) , Zinsgutstraße (only southeast) , Wassermannstraße, Handjerystraße (SO) , Arndtstraße (SO) , Hackenbergstraße (NW) , Helbigstraße (NW) , Nipkowstraße (SO) , Genossenschaftsstraße (NW) - Süßer Grund (SO) , Friedenstraße (SO) , Florian-Geyer-Straße (NW) - Thomas-Müntzer-Straße (SO) , Gellertstraße (SO) , Anna-Seghers-Straße, Adlergestell
Places	Marketplace
Buildings	Buildings and facilities (selection)
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length	1370 m

The Dörpfeldstraße is a historic rectilinear street in the Berlin district of Adlershof of Treptow-Koepenick . It is located between the railway line of the Berlin outer ring in the north-east and the eagle frame at the Adlershof S-Bahn station on the Görlitzer Bahn in the south-west.

history

The road already existed in the Middle Ages when armies were on military campaigns in the country, the unpaved and nameless road was also used by traders and carters. He lay on the connection between Saarmund , Rudow , Coepenick, Frankfurt (Oder) and passed through the wetlands of the Spreetals that Cöllnische Heyde was called. The Rudower Chaussee , which originally had a slightly different route, also belongs to this medieval path . On a historical map from 1755 the name Alte Heer = road from Leipzig to Franck Furth can be found .

With the emergence of hereditary interest guts Adler Hoff in 1754, this historic way formed the central axis in the settlement. The residents now called this main path Dorfstraße (at least the section on the areas occupied by houses). According to the law of the time, residents could collect customs duties for the use of trade routes (the customs house was at the northern entrance to Adlershoff on the Chaussee to Cöpenick ). In return, however, the traders asked the responsible customs office in Cöpenick to properly pave the road. A section at the intersection with the eagle frame was owned by the landowner Siwicke, who had appropriate repairs made. Around 1865, when the place already had around 200 inhabitants, the residents, the Büdner , were supposed to " drive " this traffic route , that is, the roadway had to be paved with clay and given a curved cross-section. However, the colonists had neither the money nor the material means for such work, and they hardly used the route. After protests, the poor road conditions remained for a few years.

Only with the beginning of industrialization from around 1870, when factories settled in the vicinity of the place, which led to the influx of numerous working-class families, the community had the path system expanded and the existing roads paved. The village street described here was then given the new official name Cöpenicker Straße on December 13, 1884 , which clarified the direction of its course.

As early as August 17, 1886, the local administration renamed the central street from Adlershof to Bismarckstraße in honor of the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . The naming had been confirmed by the Teltower District Administrator responsible at the time . This street quickly grew into an important shopping street with bakers, butchers, grocery stores and restaurants. In 1891, the weekly market also established itself (address Bismarckstrasse 35/36). The village church in Arndtstrasse 11–15 near Bismarckstrasse on the market square and a school were built, and in 1918 the Capitol film theater was added.

The community office was located in Bismarckstrasse 1, while Adlergestell 22 was officially the official building. In 1912, the first tram through Bismarckstraße was put into operation; before that there was already a line from Adlershof station to the center of the village Alt-Glienicke (church). Now there was a connection with the city ​​of Cöpenick .

Bismarckstraße with its side streets in 1931 and some with house numbers

During the political conflicts in the Kapp Putsch and its aftermath, several people were killed in the town, particularly in Bismarckstrasse. Members of the Reich Defense Units had shot workers in the street and in the courtyard of the community school. The dead were later given an honorable souvenir in the cemetery on Friedlander Strasse (formerly the “community forest cemetery ” on Waldstrasse and Hackenbergstrasse).

In the 1930s, the Berlin address book shows an abundance of shops and service providers along this street. Coal shops, cigar shops, glaziers, watchmakers, other inns and even a gas station (house number 71) were added to the food suppliers. Up to 20 families found accommodation in the resulting rental houses.

In 1931 the house numbers ranged from 1 (on the eagle frame) to 88 (on Waldstrasse) in a zigzag shape . A little later, the Chaussee to Cöpenick was included in the course of Bismarckstrasse, the new section was given parcel numbers 90 to 110 in 1935, and two cross streets, the Lohnauer Steig and the Freystadter Weg, were added. In this area, the street has since shown a rural picture, it is characterized by villas and gardens as well as the later sports complex.

The development in the street gradually increased, and from 1941 116 house numbers had already been assigned. During the time of National Socialism , like almost everywhere in Berlin, Jewish citizens were arrested and later killed from this street. Stolpersteine ​​in front of the house at Dörpfeldstrasse 23 have been remembering two of these people, Margarethe and Wilhelm Baerwald , since 2005 .

In 1938 the former municipal office at Bismarckstrasse 1 became the “Berlin Adlershof Office” with an “application fund” (later city tax fund) and registry office  XV in it.

When the Second World War came to an end, first refugees and, on April 24, 1945, countless tanks of the Red Army moved through Bismarckstrasse, coming from Spindlersfeld . At the intersection with the eagle frame, several associations had met to liberate Berlin city center. In 1948, the space behind the Bismarckstrasse 1-5 building was called Liberation Square.

In post-war Berlin, street and square names after previous politicians or rulers were to be deleted, and so on May 24, 1951, the street was officially given the name Dörpfeldstrasse. The archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) is considered to be the eponym . Scientists from the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein do not rule out that the street could also have been named after the pedagogue Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1824-1893).

The importance of the Dörpfeldstrasse within the locality decreased significantly from the 1960s onwards, it became more and more a thoroughfare. The institutes of the German Academy of Sciences that have now been established in the southern area of ​​Adlershof , the establishment of the GDR television network and, above all, the "Feliks Dzerzynski" guard regiment have all contributed to this.

Over the years, the houses built along Dörpfeldstrasse deteriorated into unsightly buildings, and shops moved out. The dreariness especially spread in the 1980s. Renovation work did not begin until the late 1990s, and progress was slow due to the complicated ownership structure. By May 1997, the developed markets passages . As a result of a complete renovation, the street is to be transformed into a promenade from 2021.

Buildings and facilities (selection)

Former 1st community school, since 1998 Adlershof cultural center

In Dörpfeldstrasse 54/56 there is the 1st community school for boys, built in 1890/92 according to plans and under the direction of the master builder Robert Buntzel , which later became the 1st elementary school (1930), then the 16th elementary school (1935) and the 19th elementary school (1941 ) had been renamed. (The 2nd community school for girls was built in 1898 at Radickestrasse 43.) The public library was also located in the school building in Bismarckstrasse. In 1997/1998 the district administration had the former school building renovated and reopened it as the Adlershof cultural center . The district office's cultural department is located in the brick buildings, and there is also a citizens' hall, the Alte Schule gallery , the local library , work rooms for the local chronicle, the Kiezclub and an art library .

The market fountain, inaugurated in 1912 and designed by the sculptor Alfred Krause, is also worth mentioning as an architectural monument.

The Fritz-Lesch sports complex, named after the communist resistance fighter Fritz Lesch , with tennis courts, athletics facilities, handball and soccer fields stretches in the triangle between Dörpfeldstrasse and the railway facilities that border the district to the east (address Dörpfeldstrasse 89) . The main users are SV Berlin-Chemie Adlershof and PSV Olympia Berlin. The junior and women's teams of 1. FC Union Berlin also use the grass pitches here. The tennis courts are operated by the Adlershofer Tennisclub e. V. played. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall , the members of the BSG AdW Berlin played a wide range of sports. In addition to the sports complex, villas and allotments define the image of Dörpfeldstrasse in this northeastern section.

The Capitol cinema, which opened in 1918 at Dörpfeldstrasse 29, was closed in October 1990 and then stood empty for several years. The investor and engineer Michael Weltzer and his partner Gert Menzner acquired the three-storey building - including a neighboring house - around 2005 and had it redesigned into a market hall with a small selection based on suggestions from the project developer Kai-Uwe Blietz. A total of 40 small market stalls are available in the former cinema room (“department store of the senses”), and the complex also has a fitness center with nutritional advice and a sauna with a roof terrace, called Training, Spa and Wellness . A summer night cinema is planned in the yard in the long term. For further acceptance, Weltzer even wants to use a bus shuttle to bring employees from the WISTA premises here for lunch. The realization of the project cost around 3.5 million euros . The new Capitol opened on November 15, 2007.

Also worth mentioning are a mural on the gable of the house at Dörpfeldstrasse 15/17 at the corner of Thomas-Müntzer-Strasse in 2005 , which shows a very realistically designed picture of an old gnarled tree, and the multi-storey building at Dörpfeldstrasse 79 with an expressive, restored Art Nouveau facade . The shop area is used by a bicycle dealer.

traffic

The Dörpfeldstrasse is traversed by tram lines 60 and 61 in the middle of the street at street level on the section from house number 1 on Adlergestell to parcel 89 at the junction with Waldstrasse . Then the tracks change to their own track bed on both sides. The two lanes of the road are from here to the suburb of Spindlersfeld between the tram tracks.

See also

• For the changes in street names, especially since 1951, see Former Streets .

literature

• Rudi Hinte: The Dörpfeldstrasse . In: Adlershof yesterday and today. 1754-2004. Stories - poems - pictures. Aphaia Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-926677-42-2 , pp. 16-19

Web links

Commons : Dörpfeldstraße (Berlin-Adlershof)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dörpfeldstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )

References and comments

1. ↑ Adlershof yesterday and today , p. 16.
2. ↑ Motion picture theater . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, Part 2: Business Directory, p. 399. “Capitol-Lichtspiele, Bismarckstraße 29”.
3. ^ Adlershof authorities . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, part 5, Adlershof, p. 3.
4. ↑ Bismarckstrasse 1 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1938, 4th part, p. 1999. “Amtsstelle Berl. Adlershof ".
5. ↑ Adlershof yesterday and today , p. 18
6. ↑ Dörpfeldstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
7. ↑ Note: The given literature, written by the local chronicler Hinte, should have been formulated with access to the corresponding documents, he names the archaeologist who is to be regarded as the namesake of the street. These documents (which were also a matter for the magistrate and the party) had to be submitted to the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein. Sometimes the files are simply no longer available. Then it is no longer possible to understand which person was decisive and what the local or ideological reference would have been.
8. ↑ Shopping under the glass dome . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 21, 1995
9. ↑ The long wait is now rewarded . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 26, 1997
10. ↑ How the Dö promenade is to be made from Dörpfeldstrasse. In: Berliner Zeitung , June 13, 2020.
11. ↑ Dörpfeldstrasse 54/56, 1. Adlershof Community School, 1890–1892 by Robert Buntzel
12. ↑ Kulturzentrum Adlershof ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2015 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. , accessed January 13, 2015.  
13. ↑ Dörpfeldstrasse, Marktbrunnen, 1912 by Alfred Krause
14. ^ SV Berlin-Chemie Adlershof , accessed on January 13, 2015.
15. ↑ PSV Olympia Berlin , accessed on January 13, 2015.
16. ↑ allekinos.com
17. ^ Karin Schmidl: Gourmet Shuttle to the Capitol. The cinema on Dörpfeldstrasse becomes a market hall - with a fish smokehouse and herb shop . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 21, 2007.
18. ↑ The Capitol has now reopened . (PDF) In: Adlershofer Zeitung , December 2007, accessed on January 13, 2015.
19. ^ Baum, artist Wohlmann, 2005. Murals in Berlin ; accessed on January 15, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '18.8 "  N , 13 ° 33' 0.2"  E