Grunerstrasse (Berlin)
 Grunerstrasse
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | center |
| Created | April 24, 1890 |
| Newly designed | between 1926 and 1933 and 1967–1969 |
| Connecting roads |
Alexanderstraße (north) Mühlendamm (south) |
| Cross streets |
Dircksenstrasse , Littenstrasse , Klosterstrasse , Jüdenstrasse , Spandauer Strasse |
| Places | Whey market |
| Buildings |
Old town house , Franciscan monastery church |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
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| Street length | 760 meters |
The Grunerstraße in the Berlin district of Mitte is around 760 meters long as part of the Bundesstraße 1 and is an important inner-city connection. It is named after the Prussian politician and former Berlin police chief Justus von Gruner .
Course and development
The street was laid out in 1890 as a connecting street between Alexanderplatz and Neuer Friedrichstraße (since 2001: Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Straße and Littenstraße ). Its name refers to the then completed police headquarters at Alexanderplatz , at the end of which it led past half the length of the then street.
The first expansion took place in the late 1920s until November 25, 1932, when the western part of the street up to Klosterstraße was incorporated into Grunerstraße. It led to a significant reduction in traffic, as it relieved the previously only east-west road, Königstrasse . In the planning phase in 1925, around 7.5 million marks were set aside for these reconstruction measures, including the purchase of building land and demolition work.
A considerable widening and extension to the Molkenmarkt took place during the urban redevelopment in the years 1967–1969, when mainly new residential buildings were built on Leipziger Strasse . In this case, parts of the later for were Amtsgericht center and the Berlin Regional Court used courthouse complex demolished. After the road was expanded, a continuous connection was created between Mühlendamm via Grunerstraße to Hans-Beimler-Straße (since 1991 Otto-Braun-Straße ). In order not to overload the intersection with Karl-Marx-Allee / Alexanderplatz, the middle lanes between the Stadtbahn viaduct and Hans-Beimler-Straße were placed in a tunnel. In 2006, Alexanderstraße, which had ended at Grunerstraße, was extended to the Karl-Marx-Allee intersection and then Alexanderplatz to the Karl-Liebknecht- / Memhardstraße intersection . Since then, Grunerstrasse has ended at Alexanderstrasse.
Planning from the 1990s
The Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing has been planning a large-scale renovation to re- urbanize the historic center for around ten years . The area from Alexanderplatz to City West is to be redesigned and the area around the whey market defined as a focus area. The six- to eight-lane traffic route between Mühlendamm and Grunerstrasse, which, in the Senate's view, separates the associated northern sections of old Berlin from the southern areas, is criticized . The plan is to divert through traffic to tangential roads and to reduce vehicle traffic in the city center. Specifically, Grunerstraße is to be relocated “to the north along the rear of the Red City Hall and the Rathauspassagen”. The course of the street is to be redrawn with new business and office buildings. The Senate intends to fully refinance the cost of the renovation by selling the newly created building space. Construction work should be completed by 2014. However, nothing happened until the end of 2014.
In autumn 2015, the Senate Building Department published a development plan showing the demolition of Grunerstrasse and the planned swiveling.
Web links
- Grunerstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Million projects of the city of Berlin. The big breakthroughs . In: Vossische Zeitung , July 12, 1925, supplement in the Sunday edition; P. 5.
- ^ Aron Kraft: East Berlin in the plans of the SED: Hermann Henselmann . GRIN Verlag, May 20, 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-92095-2 , p. 12 (accessed July 17, 2012).
- ↑ Stadtgericht Mitte ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2012 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. at berlin.de, accessed on July 16, 2012.
- ↑ Alexanderstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ a b Molkenmarkt / Klosterviertel: Introduction to the planning process ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Senate Department for Urban Development, accessed on July 16, 2012.
- ↑ Peter Neumann: One less lane for drivers . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 12, 2003.
- ^ Peter Neumann: Molkenmarkt: Renovation from 2013 . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 18, 2010.
- ↑ Molkenmarkt and Klosterviertel leaflet (pdf); accessed on October 31, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 10.3 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 46.9" E