Danziger Strasse
 Danziger Strasse
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| Danziger Strasse at the Volkspark Friedrichshain |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Prenzlauer Berg |
| Created | 19th century |
| Hist. Names |
Communication, Dimitroffstrasse |
| Connecting roads | Eberswalder Strasse , Petersburger Strasse |
| Cross streets | (Selection) Schönhauser Allee , Prenzlauer Allee , Greifswalder Strasse , Am Friedrichshain, Kniprodestrasse, Landsberger Allee |
| Places | Arnswalder Platz |
| Buildings | See → here |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 3000 meters |
The Danziger road is a main traffic street in Berlin's Pankow district . It is located in the northeast of the city center in the Prenzlauer Berg district and is part of the inner city ring . Danziger Straße begins north at the intersection with Schönhauser Allee and ends south at the corner of Landsberger Allee . It runs parallel to the other ring structures of the Berlin cityscape, around 1.5 kilometers outside the former customs wall (today's Torstrasse ) and around 500 meters inside the ring railway .
course
Danziger Straße consists of three lanes and one parking lane in both directions. According to plans by the red-red-green Senate in 2018, a cycle path is to be set up on the section between Prenzlauer Allee and Landsberger Allee.
To the west of Danziger Strasse is Eberswalder Strasse and then Bernauer Strasse , which form the northern inner city ring. To the south, Petersburger Strasse , Warschauer Strasse in Friedrichshain and Skalitzer Strasse in Kreuzberg form the extension of Danziger Strasse. From the Nordbahnhof on Bernauer Strasse in Mitte to Warschauer Strasse station, the inner city ring and thus the entire course of Danziger Strasse will be traversed by the M10 tram , one of the city's most important tram lines, which operates 24 hours a day.
In its course, Danziger Strasse crosses several important entry and exit roads , above all Prenzlauer Allee and Greifswalder Strasse . Other well-known cross streets are Pappelallee, Knaackstraße, Lychener Straße, Schliemannstraße, Dunckerstraße, Kollwitzstraße, Winsstraße, Bötzowstraße and Kniprodestraße.
Between Kniprodestrasse and Landsberger Allee on the south side of the street there is the Volkspark Friedrichshain , between Prenzlauer Allee and Greifswalder Strasse on the north the Ernst-Thälmann-Park .
The sports and recreation center has stood at the intersection with Landsberger Allee since 1981 .
history
The road was first built in 1822 as a dirt road. It was supposed to connect the country roads that had existed since the Middle Ages , today's major arterial roads , and was therefore called Communication .
The development of the area was largely based on the specifications of the Hobrecht Plan, which came into force in 1862 . The systematic development began around 1890. In 1874 the western section of this path, today the area between Schönhauser Allee and Greifswalder Straße, was named Danziger Straße after the city of Danzig . The part to the southeast between Greifswalder Strasse and Landsberger Allee was named Elbinger Strasse after the city of Elbing .
Following the Ringbahn, which was completed in this area in 1867, the city's IV gas station was built on a 20- hectare site between the Ringbahn and Danziger Strasse . The first gas tank was completed in 1874, and five more followed by 1900.
The elevated railway , which opened in the course of Schönhauser Allee in 1913, was given the Danziger Strasse station at the intersection with Danziger Strasse .
On 27 February 1950, the road train from Gdansk and Elblag road after was Bulgarian Communist -Leader Georgi Dimitrov in Dimitroffstraße renamed. The high station in Schönhauser Allee was also given this name.
The gas plant, now known as the Dimitroffstrasse gas works, was shut down in 1984 and its gas storage facility was blown up. Committed monument preservationists protested against the demolition, but could not prevent it. The Ernst-Thälmann-Park , including a planetarium , a large memorial for the former chairman of the KPD , Ernst Thälmann, and several high- rise apartment buildings was built on the vacated site until the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987 . Some of the plant's historic buildings have been preserved and are listed as historical monuments . A modern low-rise building for cultural use, the honeycomb , was added as a new building on the site. The entire new park and residential complex, which provided apartments for 4,000 Berliners, was inaugurated on July 15, 1986 with a big celebration.
After the political change in the GDR and the reunification of Berlin, the question of renaming the street arose. The district assembly of Prenzlauer Berg refused to rename streets. The transport companies changed the name of the high station on October 3, 1990 to the opposite Eberswalder Straße . This was part of a renaming campaign that affected numerous underground stations in the former East Berlin .
On November 1, 1995, the Berlin Senator for Construction, Herwig Haase, disregarded the opposing vote of the district parliament and the resistance of local residents and had the entire street renamed Danziger Strasse . This also affected the south-eastern section of the road, which was called Elbinger Strasse until 1950 . However, the elevated station retained its "makeshift name", which it received four years earlier, and is still called Eberswalder Strasse today .
- Plaque
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The German resistance fighter Kurt Lehmann (1906–1944) from Robert Uhrig's group is commemorated with a memorial plaque on his house at Danziger Strasse 29. A plaque from 1975 was removed by strangers. On May 8, 1993, today's replacement plaque was attached with the following inscription:
“Here, at his house, there was a memorial plaque for
Kurt Lehmann
November 10, 1906 to August 21, 1944.
He had been a member of the KPD since 1931, and
was imprisoned in Luckau prison from 1934 to 1936 . After his release
, he took part in setting up the illegal party
organization. Arrested again in 1942,
Kurt Lehmann was executed after two years in prison. "
Architectural monuments and sights
- Parts of a building ensemble consisting of tenement houses, commercial and social buildings in the crossing area Schönhauser Allee / Kastanienallee / Pappelallee / Danziger Straße,
- a renovated corner house on Schliemannstraße, with a facade decorated with old stucco elements and a modern design, set off diagonally by the colors white / red,
- Double school building with a former rector's residence at Danziger Strasse 50 at the corner of Dunckerstrasse 64, built in 1893/1894 as the 162nd and 197th community school for boys, red clinker cladding with green glazed decorative bricks, builders Hermann Blankenstein and Vinzent Dylewski ; designated after 1990 as the center of danziger 50 and used by a large number of small cultural and educational institutions. In November 2008 a basic repair and renovation began. The work was funded by the European Union and the State of Berlin,
- Residential house at Danziger Strasse 57 at the corner of Senefelderstrasse, built around 1895 according to plans by Eugen Reethen , five-storey clinker cladding building with a richly decorated facade in the neo-renaissance style, corner bay window and attached hexagonal corner tower,
- a free sculpture for the victims of the anti-fascist resistance struggle , placed in 1979 by Werner Richter on the area in front of the planetarium, Danziger Strasse / Diesterwegstrasse,
- Ernst-Thälmann-Park , inner-city park, between Greifswalder Strasse and Danziger Strasse,
- Arnswalder Platz between Greifswalder and Kniprodestrasse on the southern side,
- Danziger Strasse 101–105, 111, former gas works, 1872–1874 (administration building), 1901 (gas meter house II), 1902 (magazine), 1906 (regulating house), 1913 (gatehouse and enclosure wall); preserved as a cultural center in Prenzlauer Berg with the theater under the roof , in the former administration building,
- Advent Church at Danziger Strasse 201 / corner of Heinz-Bartsch-Strasse 1, across from Volkspark Friedrichshain ; by the architects August Dinklage , Ernst Paulus and Olaf Lilloe , 1910/1911,
- the Volkspark Friedrichshain.
- On the corner of Prenzlauer Allee, the plastic children created by Stephan Horota in 1967/1968 stands under an umbrella .
Bicycle traffic
At the end of April 2020, the Pankow district announced that it would set up a pop-up cycle path on Danziger Straße between Prenzlauer Allee and Danziger Straße 142 as part of the COVID-19 pandemic in Berlin from May 5th of that year .
literature
- Grosinski: Prenzlauer Berg. A chronicle. Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-320-01938-4
- The architectural and art monuments in the GDR, capital Berlin I. Ed .: Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, pp. 380-426
Web links
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Danziger Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Elbinger Strasse . In: Luise.
- Dimitroffstrasse . In: Luise.
- BA Pankow with various current information on Danziger Straße
- You don't blow gasometers in Pankower Allgemeine Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Invalidenstrasse - there are plans and complaints . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 12, 2009
- ^ Berlin Central Station - The Project . Senate Department for Urban Development
- ↑ More space for cyclists is also planned on Danziger Straße. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 10, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann , Monika Kahl, Regina Scheer: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism - A Documentation , Volume II, Federal Center for Political Education , Bonn 1999
- ↑ In the literature mentioned, it says that the memorial plaque is located at Eberswalder Straße 29 and has also disappeared in the meantime. Since the replacement board is still in Danziger Strasse today, it may be a misprint or a mix-up in the course of the renaming of the underground station from Danziger Strasse or Dimitroffstrasse to Eberswalder Strasse .
- ↑ Monument building on the corner of Kastanienallee / Schönhauser Allee / Danziger Straße 1
- ↑ Monument school building Danziger Strasse 50
- ↑ Information boards on the building in January 2009
- ↑ Architectural monument residential building at Danziger Strasse 57
- ↑ Memorial for resistance victims
- ↑ Arnswalder Platz garden monument
- ↑ Architectural monuments are the buildings of the former gas works
- ↑ Architectural monument of the Advent Church
- ↑ Garden monument Volkspark Friedrichshain
- ↑ A temporary cycle lane will be set up on Danziger Straße from May 5, 2020. April 30, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 10 ″ N , 13 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E