Dorotheenstrasse (Berlin)

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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '7.3 "  N , 13 ° 23' 12.3"  E

Dorotheenstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Dorotheenstrasse
Jakob-Kaiser-Haus at the western end of Dorotheenstrasse
Basic data
place Berlin
District center
Created 17th century
Newly designed in the 20th and 21st centuries
Cross streets Ebertstrasse ,
Wilhelmstrasse ,
Friedrichstrasse ,
Am Kupfergraben
Buildings Buildings
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 1300 meters

The Dorotheenstraße in Berlin district of Mitte is a street parallel to the boulevard Unter den Linden in East-West direction between the street Am Kupfergraben and Ebertstraße . Since April 25, 1822 it has been named after Electress Dorothea von Brandenburg . Their numbering was changed for the first time in 1846, the second in 1911 and the third in 1951. From 1951 to 1995 it was called Clara-Zetkin-Straße, named after the socialist politician and women's rights activist Clara Zetkin . The terminus of the M1 and 12 tram lines is in the eastern part of Dorotheenstrasse , where the northern entrance to the Linden tunnel was also located . The section between Ebertstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse has been occupied by the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus of the German Bundestag on both sides of the road since 2002 .

history

Up to the current length, several traffic routes were created in Dorotheenstadt on its route . These parts were called Am Bauhof (around 1696–1822), Hinter Gasse (17th – 18th centuries), Hinter dem Observatorium (18th century to 1822) and Last Street (18th century to 1822) because they were the was the northernmost street of Dorotheenstadt. The address book of 1901 gives the course of the street as follows: From Kupfergraben / Hegelplatz (lot number 1) via Prinz-Louis-Ferdinand-Straße , Friedrichstraße , Neustädtische Kirchstraße , Bunsenstraße , Neue Wilhelmstraße to Sommerstraße . From there back via Schadowstrasse and Charlottenstrasse past the university garden and the chestnut grove to the Kupfergraben.

Plan of Dorotheenstadt, 1893

The directorate of the Guard Corps was at Hegelplatz / Dorotheenstrasse 4. Two institutes and several seminars of the Berlin University were housed in the adjacent building . In the 18th and 19th centuries, the building at Dorotheenstrasse 21 was a country house for the Prussian Minister von Kamecke, which was named Villa Kamecke after its owner . From 1780 the villa served the Great Lodge of Prussia , named Royal York, for friendship in the Orient . After later changes to the house numbers, the Lodge building was number 27 and was destroyed around 1944.

The hotel railway company had built the Central Hotel on the corner of Friedrichstrasse . This included the winter garden theater , the Zum Heidelberger restaurant , the hotel's wine tasting room and many other culinary facilities. There were other university facilities between Bunsenstrasse and Neuer Wilhelmstrasse. The building complex Dorotheenstrasse 115/117 was built as the new headquarters for the Association of German Engineers (VDI). During the GDR era, the Chamber of Technology continued to use the building that had been in the exclusion zone of the Berlin Wall from 1961 . It was integrated into the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus in 2002.

In the final years of World War II , numerous historic buildings on this street were killed in fighting and bombing. After the rubble had been cleared into the 1950s, some structures could be repaired and used again. Others were torn down and either left free or new ones built, such as the Interhotel Metropol on the corner of Friedrichstrasse.

In 1951, the East Berlin magistrate renamed the traffic route to Clara-Zetkin-Straße . After the political change , there was a controversial discussion about the re-assignment of the historical name until the street was renamed again in 1995. Extensive renovation of the preserved historical building fabric did not begin until 1990, and existing gaps were rebuilt.

Buildings, monuments and memorial plaques

building

There are numerous listed buildings in Dorotheenstrasse . In the following, they are listed in ascending order by house number, name of the building or purpose and, if applicable, naming the architect:

Monuments and plaques

In the Berlin address book there was always a text attachment in which sights such as urban freestanding sculptures as well as memorial plaques and memorials were mentioned. In 1931 the following bronze plaques were found in this street:

  • No. 4: Memorial plaque for Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland : Queen Luise's personal physician, † 1826 (attached in 1903)
  • No. 49: Memorial plaque for Ernst Eiselen . Eiselen had worked as the head of the fencing schools at Dorotheenstrasse 31 (and Blumenstrasse 3).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dorotheenstrasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, part 3, p. 123 (street course with house numbers [1 to 98 in horseshoe form ] and all cross streets as well as detailed naming of the existing buildings).
  2. ↑ No. 1:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  3. ↑ No. 16:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. ↑ No. 17:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  5. ↑ No. 26:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  6. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-I . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 197 .
  7. ↑ No. 27Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ No. 28:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. ↑ No. 35:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  10. ↑ Photo Hotel Splendid
  11. ↑ No. 37:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  12. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-I . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 198 .
  13. ↑ No. 41/43:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  14. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  15. ↑ At a historical location. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 31, 1997
  16. ↑ No. 62/64/66:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  17. ↑ No. 69:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  18. ↑ No. 84:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  19. ↑ No. 90:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  20. ↑ No. 85/87/89/91:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  21. ↑ No. 93:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  22. ↑ No. 94/96:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  23. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-I . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 199 f .
  24. ↑ No. 97:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  25. ↑ No. 99:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  26. ↑ No. 115/117:Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  27. ↑ a b Authorities, churches, schools . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1931, III, p. 189.
  28. ↑ Eiselen, E. In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1840, part I, p. 83. “Royal universal fencing master, chairman of the fencing and gymnastics facilities”.