Hammarskjöldplatz (Berlin)

Hammarskjold Square
Place in Berlin
Hammarskjöldplatz with parking lot, radio tower , palace at the radio tower , sculpture games of the wind
Basic data
place	Berlin
District	Berlin-Westend
Created	1937
Hist. Names	Parade ground , space in front of the fair
Confluent streets	Masurenallee
Buildings	House of Broadcasting , Palais am Funkturm
use
User groups	Motor traffic, pedestrians, cyclists
Space design	large area with poplars on the edge

The Hammarskjöldplatz is a place in the Berlin district of Westend the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , located in front of the exhibition halls and before the radio tower palace is located. Opposite the square is the radio house and behind the exhibition halls the radio tower . The name of the square refers to the Swedish politician, Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dag Hammarskjöld , who died on September 18, 1961 in an unexplained plane crash in Central Africa .

history

In 1914 the first exhibition hall was completed for the automobile exhibition. It was located north of the present fairgrounds on the then Exerzier -Platz . The square was built together with the entrance building in 1937 according to the plans of the architect Richard Ermisch and was then called the square in front of the fair . The design of the square was by Richard Lesser and Ludwig Lesser . It was given its current name on October 14, 1961. On January 20, 1989, partial areas of the square in front of exhibition halls 21 and 17/18 were incorporated into the street landscape.

Memorials

A memorial for Dag Hammarskjöld was erected across from the north entrance to the exhibition center. In 1997 the kinetic sculpture Games of the Wind by Manrique Césa was erected next to the memorial plaque for Hammarskjöld .

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literature

• Tale from the history of Charlottenburg . Edmund Fischer, Walter Eckler, Gisela Scholtze Edition. Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-7678-0683-2 , pp. 131-132 .

Web links

Commons : Hammarskjöldplatz (Berlin-Westend)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved April 19, 2020 . 
2. ^ Hammarskjöldplatz in Berlin. Retrieved April 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hammarskjöldplatz. September 21, 2014, accessed April 18, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Memorial plaque for Dag Hammarskjöld. August 14, 2014, accessed April 18, 2020 . 
5. ^ Games of the wind, sculpture on Hammarskjöldplatz. July 30, 2018, accessed April 18, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 23 "  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 30.5"  E