Gneisenaustrasse

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Gneisenaustrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Gneisenaustrasse
Gneisenaustraße (between Baerwaldstraße and Südstern )
Basic data
place Berlin
District Kreuzberg
Created 1861-1864
Connecting roads
Yorckstraße (west) ,
Hasenheide (east)
Cross streets Nostitzstrasse ,
Solmsstrasse,
Zossener Strasse ,
Mittenwalder Strasse,
Schleiermacherstrasse,
Baerwaldstrasse
Places South star
Buildings Mehringhof
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 1180 meters

The Gneisenaustraße is a street in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . It runs in the west on Mehringdamm as an extension of Yorckstraße and in the east on Südstern it merges into Straße Hasenheide . This makes it part of one of the most important west-east traffic axes in the southern center of Berlin.

Description, history

In the middle of the six-lane street there is a wide route lined with trees and bushes , under which the U7 line of the Berlin subway runs. The two exits of the Gneisenaustraße underground station are at the crossroads with Zossener and Mittenwalder Straße .

The street was built between 1861 and 1864 as part of the general train and was named on October 31, 1864 after the Prussian field marshal August Wilhelm Anton Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau . Suggested names that were rejected at the time were Neue Promenade and Obergürtel-Straße .

In 2019, the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen submitted a motion for the “demilitarization of public space” to the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district assembly to encourage a public discourse and participation process about a possible renaming of Gneisenaustraße and the other streets named after generals and battles in the district and initiate places.

Noteworthy in the street

West entrance to the underground station Gneisenaustraße (on Zossener Straße )

The Mehringhof , an alternative project and cultural center, is located at Gneisenaustrasse 2a .

Every year, the street is part of the route of the procession as part of the Carnival of Cultures .

The residential and factory complex at Gneisenaustraße 27 was built in 1900. In earlier years, smaller and larger factories were located here, such as a brass line factory and type foundry , the fittings and apparatus factory Preschona by A. Meyer or a lamp factory (all in 1943). From 1949 to 2013 the five-storey building served as a production facility for ROKA Robert Karst GmbH & Co. KG, which manufactured connectors for the automotive industry, which then moved to a new location.

In 2014 the US organization Council of International Educational Exchange (CIEE) acquired the building complex and expanded it into an institute. The CIEE has been organizing student exchanges and internships abroad for young people since 1947 and up to now has maintained a study center for 30 people in Berlin-Mitte and, of course, other centers in other countries. Here at Gneisenaustrasse 27, an educational facility for 700 young Americans who study in Kreuzberg for a year was established. The management succeeded in hiring visiting professors to lead courses such as international relations, cultural and linguistic studies, journalism , new media or health sciences. A cooperation took place before the opening with the University of Law and Economics from Wilmersdorf and the Touro College in Charlottenburg , further larger university institutions are to be included. The complex was completed on schedule in autumn 2015 and was officially inaugurated in the presence of US Ambassador John B. Emerson . First 120 young Americans moved in here. After further expansion, around 200 dormitory places will be ready for occupancy in the five-story factory building and a total of up to 700 people will learn. All purchases and work were financed by the CIEE with its 340 affiliated universities and colleges, which also bear the course fees.

The industrial estate of the Gewerbesiedlungs-Gesellschaft in Gneisenaustraße 66/67 was built in 1908 as a residential building. Only in the rear part of the property were the first commercial buildings. A wide variety of industries have been represented in the buildings that have only been used as commercial buildings since the 21st century.

In the Gneisenaustrasse there are some historic houses that are now listed , these are:

  • Numbers 6a and 7a from the years 1864/1865,
  • Number 7: School building complex, consisting of five different teaching facilities from the years of construction 1880/1881,
  • Number 8 from 1864,
  • Number 9 from 1865,
  • Number 44/45, tenement houses and a small factory from 1899,
  • Numbers 52 and 52 / 52a, apartment buildings from the years 1898/1899.

On the areas between Schleiermacherstraße and Baerwaldstraße there are sports grounds on both sides of Gneisenaustrasse, some of which are used by sports clubs in addition to two nearby schools.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Group Xhain: DS / 1154 / V - Demilitarization of the public space. In: Green Xhain. March 7, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Antje Lang-Lendorff: Renaming streets in Berlin: What Kreuzberg is up to . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 19, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 29, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Gneisenaustrasse 27 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, Part IV, p. 286.
  4. ↑ a b c Karin Schmidl: Campus Kreuzberg . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 5, 2015, p. 21.
  5. ↑ a b Student residence at Gneisenaustraße 27 ( memento of the original from August 20, 2015 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. on fehr-gmbh.de; accessed on October 23, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fehr-gmbh.com
  6. ^ CIEE in the English language Wikipedia
  7. ^ Website Touro College Berlin
  8. ↑ Karin Schmidl: Americans study in the Bergmann-Kiez . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 17, 2014, p. 17.
  9. ↑ GSG-Hof Gneisenaustraße ; accessed on July 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ Monuments Gneisenaustrasse 6a, 7a, tenement houses, 1864–1865 by Peschke and Brescius
  11. ↑ Monument complex Gneisenaustrasse 7, 91st and 101st community school, 1880–1881; 40th community school and 6th secondary school, 1890–1891 by Hermann Blankenstein , Karl Frobenius, August Lindemann and Fritz Haack
  12. ↑ Monument Gneisenaustraße 8, tenement house, 1864 by C. Schulz and Peschke
  13. ↑ Monument Nostitzstraße 11 / Gneisenaustraße 9, tenement house, 1865 by Bolz and Schroeder
  14. ↑ Monuments Gneisenaustraße 44/45, tenement houses, multi-storey factory, 1899 by Arnold Kuthe
  15. ↑ Monument Gneisenaustraße 51, tenement house, 1898–1899 by Fritz HesseMonument Gneisenaustraße 52 / 52a, tenement house, 1898–1899 by C. Flötert

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 32.7 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 18.5"  E