Dorothea Schlegel Square
The Dorothea Schlegel Square is an urban space in Berlin . It is located in the Mitte district and is named after the writer Dorothea Friederike Schlegel . It received its name on June 21, 2005.
The square is delimited (clockwise from the north) by Berlin Friedrichstrasse train station , Friedrichstrasse , Georgenstrasse , Neustadtische Kirchstrasse and the Reichstagufer with the Spree . It was created when the green area of the so-called "winter garden" was being built on. The entrances to the Friedrichstrasse train station, the U-Bahn line 6 and the underground S-Bahn lines are located on the square .
The design of the square appears monotonous due to its concrete and granite surface, with 13 chestnut trees on the edge. Officially, the square is considered a green area. On its west side there is a fountain, the "Little Love Column", created 1981–1983 by the Berlin artist Achim Kühn . The fountain originally stood in the "winter garden", from where it was stolen. The fountain consists of a 2.50 m high copper column in the shape of a tree trunk, in which a “love heart” is engraved. Jets of water spurt out from 53 gold-plated spheres. The fountain in the border area to West Berlin was supposed to send a sign of reconciliation. A copy of the fountain has stood on the square since July 16, 2004. The Federal Press Office is in the immediate vicinity .
Entitled Trains into life - trains into death one was on 30 November 2008 at the Dorothea Schlegel Square monument erected for the rescued between 1938 and 1939, 10,000 Jewish children with the so-called " Kindertransport " especially after Were able to leave London , and to the children deported to the concentration camps.
Web links
- Dorothea Schlegel Square. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '11.7 " N , 13 ° 23' 8.7" E