Frankfurter Allee South
Frankfurter Allee Süd is a residential area in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg in the district of the same name . The area has about 10,000 inhabitants, most of them in the houses of a large housing estate that was built in the 1970s. It is named after Frankfurter Allee . The name of the location Frankfurter Allee Süd is often abbreviated to FAS .
location
The residential area is located in the southwest of the Lichtenberg district about six kilometers east of Alexanderplatz. To the north it separates the wide Frankfurter Allee from the other parts of the Lichtenberg district. In the other directions, several railway lines, mostly running at high altitude, form a clear border to the neighboring areas. To the west lies the Friedrichshain district behind the Berlin Ringbahn . Towards the south, a connecting railway separates the area from the Victoriastadt , towards the southeast, behind the extensive facilities of the Lichtenberg train station, the Weitlingkiez joins.
history
From 1771 the Friedrichsberg colony was built on Frankfurter Chaussee, today's Frankfurter Allee, south of the village of Lichtenberg . It stretched along Frankfurter Chaussee on both sides of the intersection with today's belt corner Möllendorffstraße . The colony, which always belonged to Lichtenberg, developed slowly at first, in 1817 there were 46 inhabitants, in 1840 there were 225. Since 1871 the Berlin Ringbahn has opened up the area, Friedrichsberg got a train station, which later became Berlin Frankfurter Allee station . The subsequent development with larger tenements concentrated mainly on the area within the ring railway. Some residential buildings were built outside of the railway lines on what is now the residential area of Frankfurter Allee Süd, east of the Ringbahn. The most striking building in this area was the Catholic Church of St. Mauritius , consecrated in 1892 . There were also a few restaurants here, including the Schwarzer Adler restaurant with beer garden on Frankfurter Allee at the corner of Gürtelstrasse, which was already listed by name on maps as early as 1844. Before the Second World War, residential development was concentrated in the western part of the area, with gardens and some businesses as well. Since the 1870s, the Eckert-Werke, a large company for the production of agricultural machinery, had been established in the Frankfurter Allee / Eckertstrasse area (today's Buchberger Strasse). Production ceased there in the early 1930s. At the end of the Second World War , a large part of the buildings were destroyed in bombing raids and when the Red Army entered the area. Most of the houses were directly affected on Frankfurter Allee.
The current residential area Frankfurter Allee Süd was until the 1960s a relatively loosely built-up area made up of individual houses, smaller businesses, gardeners and workshops. There were allotment gardens, especially in the southeastern part.
At the end of the 1960s, housing was urgently needed in East Berlin and a number of new development areas were created. Since the area south of Frankfurter Allee was comparatively loosely built, it was chosen as the location of a new development area. Older residential buildings and the allotment gardens, some of which also served as living space, were removed.
In 1969, the construction of the new residential area began, which was originally intended with 4,372 residential units for 16,000 residents. Only a small part of the original development was preserved. A number of apartments and commercial units had to be evacuated to create construction clearance. Other old houses were also torn down in the following years. It was not until 1977 that the house in Wartenbergstrasse 12 owned by the St. Mauritius community was cleared.
Originally, an urban highway called the C-Tangente was planned, which would have divided the residential area into two parts. This was not implemented, but the route was kept free until the 1980s for a possible later installation and only then built on. The streets in the new residential area were named after anti-fascist resistance fighters of the Rote Kapelle group , who were executed by the National Socialists in 1942/1943 . Some of the apartments were given to employees of the GDR Ministry for State Security , whose headquarters were directly opposite the residential area on the other side of the street on Frankfurter Allee.
After 1990, the residential buildings were gradually renovated with funds from the Urban II program of the European Union .
Roads and buildings
Schulze-Boysen-Strasse
Schulze-Boysen-Strasse is named after Harro and Libertas Schulze-Boysen . It runs from north to south through the residential area. Before the residential area was built, this is where Pfarrstrasse ran. The southern part of the street in the Victoriastadt was preserved. The original northern part of the street, which used to lead in a straight line to Frankfurter Allee, was built over and the street rebuilt a bit. An elongated block of flats was built on the east side, while some high-rise buildings were built in the north and south of the street. The 21- and 18-storey twin high-rise buildings with house numbers 35–37 were renovated in 2006 and converted into a low-energy house , which was the largest low-energy house in Germany at the time.
On the west side of the street, some houses and a school have been preserved from the old buildings. The school building, built by Hans Schütte in 1904/1905, is a listed building.
Another schoolhouse was built at the southern end of the street during the construction of the residential area. After the political change , it was no longer needed due to the decreasing number of children and was torn down. At this point, the Orangery Neighborhood House was built in 2004, in which the Kiezspinne FAS socio-cultural center provides numerous offers for residents.
The west of the residential area
Before the construction of the Frankfurter Allee Süd residential area, Kietzer Weg, Wartenbergstrasse and Tasdorfer Strasse (previously: Rummelsburger Strasse) ran parallel between Gürtelstrasse and Pfarrstrasse in a north-south direction; their sections south of the railway line have been preserved. In the east-west direction there was the short Mauritiuskirchstrasse and its extension, the Wuhlestrasse and south between Tasdorfer and Pfarrstrasse the Lockenhauser Weg. The Catholic Church of St. Mauritius was originally mainly used by immigrants from Silesia , who came to Berlin as workers with increasing industrialization at the end of the 19th century. Together with the residential buildings, which had been badly destroyed in the war, the building of the restaurant (later with cinema) Schwarzer Adler on Frankfurter Allee, at the corner of Gürtelstrasse, fell into ruins. It had often served as a meeting place for socialists and communists in the 1920s and 1930s .
With the new residential area, these streets, with the exception of Mauritiuskirchstraße, have been repealed and built over. The namesake of the newly created streets were the anti-fascists Wilhelm Guddorf and John Sieg . The John-Sieg-Straße is a short street east of the Mauritiuskirche, the Wilhelm-Guddorf-Straße runs in an arch from the Gürtelstraße to the Schulze-Boysen-Straße. The streetscape is dominated by extensive eleven-story apartment blocks, some of which are several hundred meters long, with type P2 apartments .
A green corridor runs between Wilhelm-Guddorf-Strasse and the railway line; an old residential building has been preserved in this area. The ensemble of the Mauritius Church with the church building and rectory is a listed building as a whole. A single monument is a villa built in 1928 for the meat manufacturer Paul Skupin. Its interior design has largely been preserved in the style of the 1920s. The building was originally located on Wartenbergstrasse, which ran north to south, but now it belongs to John-Sieg-Strasse. The villa has been used by visual artists since 1976.
Buchberger Strasse and Coppistrasse
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The south-eastern border of the residential area is Buchberger Strasse, which has been named after her since 1933. Before that it was called Eckertstrasse , after the founder of the Eckert works that was located there until the early 1930s. In 1975 the Oberweg was incorporated into Buchberger Straße. Before the area was rebuilt, the connecting path ran diagonally from Pfarrstraße to Buchberger Straße and between it, towards the east, road 44 . After 1970, Coppistraße, Harnackstraße and Albert-Hößler-Straße were rebuilt. It was named after the anti-fascists Hans and Hilde Coppi , Arvid and Mildred Harnack and Albert Hößler . Eleven-story apartment blocks have also been built here. In the southern Coppistraße and between Albert-Hößlerstraße and Buchberger Straße there are several commercial facilities and supermarkets, a complex on Frankfurter Allee is used by Deutsche Telekom . Rehearsal rooms for rock musicians have been set up in a former office building on Buchberger Strasse. The service facilities of the Berlin-Lichtenberg train station are located on the south side of Buchberger Straße. There is a sports field on the corner of Coppi- and Albert-Hößler-Straße. In 2012, the Lichtenberg District Office published a land-use plan, according to which a DIY store and garden center is to be built on this area from 2013 on the basis of the “project-related development plan 11-65VE”.
Meadow path
The area around the Wiesenweg is located in the southwest of the residential area in a triangle between several railway embankments and is thus clearly separated from the surrounding areas. During the rebuilding after 1970 this area was left out so that the original settlement structure has been preserved. There are a few scattered, largely uninhabited houses and a number of smaller businesses.
The Wiesenweg runs in an east-west direction; an underpass was only built under the Ringbahn in the direction of Friedrichshain in the 1920s, after the Kietzer Weg, which leads further south, was interrupted for the construction of the Knorr-Bremse plant . From Wiesenweg to the north, the Kietzer Weg, the Wartenbergstrasse and the Tasdorfer Strasse run parallel and have been preserved in their original location up to the new development area. There are underpasses for the three streets on the northern branch of the connecting line from the Ringbahn to Rummelsburg. Only Wartenbergstrasse is permitted for motor vehicle traffic and is tied through to Wilhelm-Guddorf-Strasse, the other two roads end in the green belt next to the railway line.
The building of a transformer station built in 1904 for what was then the Lichtenberg power station is a listed building . It was used by energy suppliers until after 2000 and has been the seat of a music theater with rehearsal rooms for musicians since 2007.
traffic
Public transport touches the area on the northern axis. The U5 underground line stops there at Frankfurter Allee and Magdalenenstrasse stations . Frankfurter Allee station is also a stopping point for the S-Bahn lines of the Ringbahn (lines S41, S42, S8, S85, S9) and several tram lines as well as a night bus line . The southern part of the residential area is about 800 meters away from these stops. From there, the route to the Nöldnerplatz S-Bahn station is a little shorter , which is connected to the residential area around Coppistraße by a footpath known colloquially as the Schwarzer Weg . The Lichtenberg train station , which also serves as a stop for the U5 underground line, is also located just behind Buchberger Straße, which serves as the regional border . Several bus lines, regional transport lines, night trains and the S-Bahn also run there.
Frankfurter Allee is one of the most important streets in the city for motorized private transport. It serves as an arterial road for part of the eastern residential areas of the city and the surrounding area. To the south, the Frankfurter Allee Süd area can only be left through a narrow bridge passage, as various railway systems largely form the southern border. The previous efforts to relieve the pressure on Schulze-Boysen-Strasse have not yet been implemented (as of May 2013).
literature
- Local history interest group at the Kiezspinne FAS e. V. (Ed.): Berlin-Lichtenberg, Frankfurter Alle Süd. A search for clues . Kiezspinne FAS e. V., 2008, 96 pp.
- Steffen Maria Strietzel, Thomas Thiele, Dirk Moldt : The modern city of Berlin-Lichtenberg - an architecture guide . 1st edition. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95723-107-9 , pp. 154-155 .
Web links
- Frankfurter Allee Süd on the website of the district office of Lichtenberg
- Kiezspinne FAS e. V. Website of the Kiezspinne FAS, Neighborhood Association e. V.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Rach: The villages in Berlin. A handbook of the former rural communities of Berlin. VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-345-00243-4 , p. 172.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Rach: The villages in Berlin. A handbook of the former rural communities of Berlin. VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-345-00243-4 , p. 87.
- ↑ Knut Käpernick: From the history of the development of the "Frankfurter Allee Süd" area up to 1918/19 . In: Berlin-Lichtenberg, Frankfurter Allee Süd. A search for traces, Kiezspinne FAS e. V., 2008, pp. 10-16.
- ↑ Erhard Bergt: Black Eagle . In: Berlin-Lichtenberg, Frankfurter Allee Süd. A search for traces, Kiezspinne FAS e. V., 2008, pp. 34-38.
- ^ A b Brigitte Möhler: Crafts and trades in the Frankfurter Allee Süd area . In: Berlin-Lichtenberg, Frankfurter Allee Süd. A search for traces, Kiezspinne FAS e. V., 2008, pp. 44-52.
- ↑ a b Knut Käpernick: A walk is also a walk through history . In: Berlin-Lichtenberg, Frankfurter Allee Süd. A search for traces, Kiezspinne FAS e. V., 2008, pp. 17-22.
- ↑ a b c Joachim Schulz, Werner Gräbner (ed.): Architekturführer DDR, Berlin , 3rd edition, VEB Verlag für Bauwesen 1981, p. 21.
- ↑ The windows can always remain closed . ( 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. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 24, 2011
- ↑ Monuments in Berlin: Schulze-Boysen-Strasse school
- ↑ Start of construction for the Kiez center . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 13, 2004
- ↑ website . Kiezspider Frankfurter Allee Süd. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
- ↑ Monuments in Berlin: Mauritius Church
- ↑ Monuments in Berlin: Studio Fine Arts
- ↑ Internet presence of berlinerrockhaus.de, accessed on April 26, 2011
- ↑ Participation of the public in the urban land-use planning - Early participation of the public in accordance with Section 3 Paragraph 1 of the Building Code (BauGB), ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 24, 2012
- ↑ Monuments in Berlin: Lichtenberg electricity works
- ↑ Kulturhaus Canteatro at locations-berlin, accessed on March 31, 2011
- ^ Theater with dogs and sofas . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 1, 2008
- ↑ Local residents want peace and quiet . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 19, 2008
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ' N , 13 ° 29' E