Plötzensee manor district

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Area that was incorporated into Berlin in 1915
Manor district 1920 after the incorporation of the eastern part

The Plötzensee manor district was a Prussian manor district in the Niederbarnim district from 1904 to 1920 . The landlord was the Prussian army . Today there is the Berlin location Plötzensee in the district of Charlottenburg-Nord , the Westhafen in Moabit , as well as the Plötzensee itself, the Volkspark Rehberge and the Julius-Leber-Kaserne in Wedding . The manor district emerged in 1904 from the manor district Tegeler Forst , when it was divided. The Plötzensee manor district emerged from the southern part of the Tegel Forest .

The Plötzensee manor district consisted of the area on both sides of the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal . These included the Plötzensee, the Plötzensee prison , the Rehberge and the cemeteries on the Plötzensee.

As early as 1915, a large part of the Berlin area came to the Wedding district. The border was the Schwarze Graben, to the west of today's Rehberge Park. Carl Hagenbeck had been planning the establishment of a zoo like the one in Hamburg since 1911 and had chosen the as yet undeveloped area around the Rehberge. Hagenbeck's plans were dashed by the First World War . The city of Berlin was primarily concerned with the area on the southern shipping canal, on which Berlin built the Westhafen in the following years.

After the separation in 1915, the Plötzensee manor district only included the area around the prison. The remaining part came to Berlin through the Greater Berlin Act and was incorporated into the newly created Charlottenburg district. The northern parts of the former manor district between Schwarzer Graben and Kurt-Schumacher-Damm - today, among other things, the location of the Julius-Leber-Kaserne  - moved again in 1938 from the Charlottenburg district to the Wedding district .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Berlin Monument Authority (ed.): District of Mitte districts of Wedding and Gesundbrunnen (=  . Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany monuments in Berlin ). Imhof, 2004, ISBN 3-937251-26-X , p. 43 .
  2. ↑ Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (Ed.): District Mitte districts Wedding and Gesundbrunnen (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Berlin ). Imhof, 2004, ISBN 3-937251-26-X , p. 244-247 .