Flatowallee

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Flatowallee
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Flatowallee
The Flatowallee from the highway viewed from
Basic data
place Berlin
District West end
Created 1914
Hist. Names Rennbahnstrasse,
Reichssportfeldstrasse
Connecting roads Kranzallee,
Trakehner Allee
Cross streets Heerstrasse ,
Heilsberger Allee,
Dickensweg,
Jesse-Owens-Allee
Places Coubertinplatz
Buildings Olympic Stadium , Corbusierhaus
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 500 meters

The Flatowallee is a 500-meter-long street in the Berlin district of Westend ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ), the highway connects with the Trakehner Allee on Coubertinplatz. It is also the direct southern connection to the Olympic Stadium . The Olympiastadion S-Bahn station is located on Flatowallee, which is very popular for major events .

Reception building of the S-Bahn station Olympiastadion on Flatowallee
The Corbusierhaus on Flatowallee at number 16

The avenue was named after Alfred Flatow and his cousin Gustav Felix Flatow , two gymnasts who were persecuted as Jewish athletes in the Third Reich and murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp (now in the Czech Republic ).

The street that used to run towards the Grunewald racecourse and the German stadium was called Rennbahnstraße from 1914 to 1936 . On the occasion of the 1936 Summer Olympics , it was given the name Reichssportfeldstrasse . The renaming to the current name only took place at the third attempt in 1997: While a municipal decision in 1949 was not implemented and a second initiative failed in 1989 by the Berlin CDU , the Flatow-Allee initiative - led by Otto Eigen - succeeded in 1994 to obtain a resolution of the Charlottenburg building committee, which was then implemented on February 21, 1997.

1956-1958 created and now - in the immediate vicinity which is listed  - building Unité d'Habitation , type Berlin of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier (colloquially therefore Corbusierhaus called '). With its 530 residential units, the high-rise is the third residential unit of this type after Marseille and Nantes .

The well-known sex club Bel Ami was located in Flatowallee until 2011 .

The street had tracks of the tram from the 1920s to the mid-1960s . On April 15, 1928, there was a serious accident here with six dead and over 100 injured when, after a soccer game in the German stadium, an overcrowded tram in the sloping Rennbahnstraße could no longer be braked on the greasy track and in the sharp left turn to Heerstraße overturned.

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  1. ↑ Brigitte Schmiemann: Luxury sex club before the end . In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 3, 2007.
  2. ↑ Michael Günther: A tram accident shocks Berlin. ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2016 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. Extract from: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , issue 4/2012, pp. 90–99 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verkehrsgeschichtliche-blaetter.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 34 ″  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 29 ″  E