Gneiststrasse

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Gneiststrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Gneiststrasse
Northern area of ​​Gneiststrasse, spring 2006
Basic data
place Berlin
District Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Created Mid 19th century
Connecting roads Raumerstraße (east)
Cross streets Schönhauser Allee , Greifenhagener Straße (only on the north side), Pappelallee
Places no
Buildings Selected structures
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 180 meters

The Gneiststraße in Berlin , Prenzlauer Berg district bears the name of the lawyer and politician Rudolf von Gneist (1816–1895). It is a very short street that was designed in connection with the Hobrecht Plan in the 1860s.

history

In the first development plan for old Berlin , it was named Straße 13a, Section XII . The new name was given on July 15, 1896.

Simple and inexpensive residential complexes in Gneiststrasse and others in the vicinity (Greifenhagener Strasse, Buchholzer Strasse, Schönhauser Allee and Pappelallee) were to be built after the land was acquired by the Berlin non-profit building society (BGB), which was founded in 1847. With the construction and marketing of initially six one- and two-family houses in the English cottage style , she intended to make “unruly workers into working owners”. In 1856 further development was stopped because the BGB had to file for bankruptcy. It was not until decades later, between 1870 and 1913, that the plans were adapted to the new requirements and five-storey residential buildings without backyard buildings with spacious and green courtyards were built on this site.

The Gneiststraße is often chosen as the original location for film recordings because of its consistently preserved old building substance, for example for Heimat 3 - Chronicle of a turning point by Edgar Reitz . In January 2000 the adjoining houses were bought by their residents and have belonged to the Bremer Höhe cooperative ever since . In June 2005, a residents' initiative, the AG Verkehrsberuhigung, symbolically renamed the intersection of Gneiststrasse and Greifenhagener Strasse to "Gneistplatz".

In 2010/2011, the Gneiststrasse / Greifenhagener Strasse traffic junction was redesigned with funds from the Stadtumbau Ost fund . This was necessary because the residents were severely affected by visitors looking for a parking space on the nearby Schönhauser Allee main road. The redesign took place with the involvement of the residents. The confluence area was made more pedestrian-friendly and safer by means of stretching . Furthermore, bicycle hangers were set up in front of Gneiststraße 18/19 and in front of the daycare center in Greifenhagener Straße.

Location and description

Gneiststraße leads from Schönhauser Allee to Pappelallee. The road is of apple thorn -Trees and bird cherries lined latter bloom April to May white. In autumn 2012, several bird cherry trees were felled due to root rot in Gneiststrasse and replaced by apple thorns that only grew half as high. In the long term, all bird cherries should be felled, as they are supposedly not suitable as street trees.

There are other streets with this name in the Berlin district of Grunewald and in Hanover .

Selected structures

Of the well-preserved architectural monuments and listed five-story town houses from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the following should be mentioned in particular:

  • Men's infirmary, 1856–57; later Inner Mission and Aid Organization of the Evangelical Church
  • Housing complex of the Berliner Gemeinnützige Baugesellschaft (Gneiststrasse 1–20) and other complexes built at the same time in the same style (Greifenhagener Strasse 1–4, 65–68 / Pappelallee 68–73 / Schönhauser Allee 58/59 / Buchholzer Strasse 10–22)

literature

  • Bernt Roder, Bettina Tacke (Ed.): Prenzlauer Berg in the course of history. Life around the Helmholtzplatz. be.bra-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89809-051-5
  • Tino Kotte (ed.): The Bremer height in Berlin. A neighborhood in Prenzlauer Berg. History workshop Bremer Höhe, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020150-9
  • History workshop Bremer Höhe (publisher): Festschrift 10 years of Bremer Höhe. Berlin 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 365 .
  2. ↑ News from the AG Verkehrsberuhigung , in: Mitteilungsblatt Bremer Höhe , vol. 4, issue 4 (November 2005) (PDF; 478 kB): p. 9.
  3. ↑ Greifenhagener – Gneiststrasse node on stadtumbau-berlin.de; Retrieved May 11, 2012
  4. ↑ Pankow tree planning. ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.5 MB) 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. Map of Gneiststrasse. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 801 kB) 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. May 21, 2008; Retrieved March 20, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bremer-hoehe.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bremer-hoehe.de
  5. ↑ “Tree felling poorly communicated” . In: Info sheet Bremer Höhe , 2/2018, p. 11 f.
  6. ↑ Ensemble Buchholzer Strasse 10–22 / Schönhauser Allee 59
  7. ↑ Architectural monument ensemble residential complex 1871–1913: Gneiststrasse 1–20 / Greifenhagener Strasse 1–4, 65–68 / Pappelallee 68–73 / Schönhauser Allee 58–59B; Architects and builders J. Hesse, B. Lorenz; Richard Krebs, Eckert & Dannenberg

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 40 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 53"  E