English Quarter (Berlin)
The English Quarter is a location in the Berlin district of Wedding . The district is named after the street names, which in turn are named after British and Irish cities, such as Londoner Straße, Edinburger Straße, Dubliner Straße or Bristolstraße. The quarter is shaped by the 30 hectare Schillerpark in its center. The English Quarter is almost exclusively a residential area with several large settlements from the 20th century, such as the Schillerpark estate . The Müllerstrasse depot , the main Seestrasse workshop of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe and the Paul-Gerhardt-Stift , a foundation for the care of children, the sick and the elderly, are among the few commercial buildings .
location
The district is located in the north of the Wedding district on the border with the Reinickendorf district , which borders the district in the north and east. It is bounded in the west by Müllerstrasse and in the south by Seestrasse .
history
In 1886, the Paul-Gerhardt-Stift was built on the outskirts of Berlin as a deaconess house with an attached hospital . The quarter was opened up after the closure of the municipal covering shop in northern Berlin in 1908, which ended the high odor nuisance that had prevented previous settlement. The streets in the southern part of the quarter were named in 1909 on the occasion of a visit by the British King Edward VII to Berlin. The Schillerpark fire station , built in 1910, was the first fire station in Berlin that was designed for motorized fire engines. The Schillerpark opened in 1913 as the first Volksgarten in Berlin.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the English Quarter was still on the outskirts. In order to accommodate the rapidly growing Berlin population, several large estates of various styles have been built here since around 1900, which still characterize the neighborhood today. Since the 1920s, the north of the English quarter has also been opened up. At this time the streets there got their names reminiscent of Great Britain. Between Dubliner, Edinburger, Liverpooler, Glasgower and Schöningstraße, a large modern estate with 888 apartments was built in 1927/1928 according to plans by Erich Glas . The settlement had its own heating system, which supplied the apartments with a hot water central heating system that was new at the time. The settlement Schiller Park today 600 apartments built in the 1920s, designed by Bruno Taut and belongs since 2008 to the UNESCO World Heritage of the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates . The settlement was supplemented in the 1950s by a few other buildings by Taut student Hans Hoffmann .
By 1927, 280 to 300 apartments were built that belong to the BVG's Müllerstrasse depot and until the 1990s were only rented to members of the Berlin transport company. Also in the 1920s and 1930s, Degewo built a residential complex with around 700 apartments in the southern English quarter. The Schillerhof settlement was also built between 1925 and 1927, although it was architecturally much more conservative than the Schillerpark settlement that was created at the same time.
After the division of Berlin, Wedding belonged to the French occupation zone. The French armed forces had their center in the southern part of Reinickendorf, so that various French facilities were established in the English Quarter. The Center Français de Berlin is located directly on Müllerstrasse , and the Franco-German school shop “Karotte” is on Glasgower Strasse. The French gendarmerie on Themsestrasse evacuated the area together with the French army.
The one-family houses on Themsestrasse are an exception in Wedding.
The largest contiguous area with condominiums in Berlin lies between Müllerstrasse, Belfast and Cambridger Strasse . The residential area with two to three-room apartments, which was built up until the 1960s, has been marketed as condominiums by a real estate company since 1978 and almost all of it has been sold.
Parks and recreational facilities
In addition to the Schillerpark, there are also some cemeteries in the quarter, the Seestrasse urn cemetery and the directly adjacent St. Philip Apostle Cemetery , Cathedral Cemetery II and the half of St. Johannis Kirchhof in Wedding. The allotment garden colony Freudental is located between the Schillerpark and some of the cemeteries.
The Kombibad Seestrasse , located in the south of the district, has 50-meter lanes in the indoor pool and an outdoor pool that is open in summer.
traffic
Müllerstrasse runs along the west side of the district, and Seestrasse, two of Berlin's main thoroughfares, runs along the south side. Barfussstraße cuts through the quarter and Schillerpark in an east-west direction. The air traffic of the nearby Berlin-Tegel Airport , in whose approach path the quarter will be located until its closure, is characteristic of living in the quarter .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dieter Huhn: Barefoot to Bristol , Berlin: street October 24, 2010
- ↑ a b c English Quarter: Green with a World Heritage Site , Weddingweiser December 17, 2011
- ↑ Luise Berlin: Englisches Viertel , accessed November 26, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e Birgit Malchow: Feines Englisches Viertel , Berliner Zeitung May 6, 2000