Hansaplatz (Berlin)

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Hansaplatz
Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
Place in Berlin
Hansaplatz
View from the south
Basic data
place Berlin
District Hansaviertel
Created 19th century
Newly designed in 1950s
Confluent streets Altonaer Strasse ,
Klopstockstrasse ,
Lessingstrasse
Buildings Interbau
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport

The Hansaplatz is a square in the Berlin district of Hansaviertel in the Mitte district . It was given its name in 1878. Among other things, the name was intended to remind you that the Berlin-Hamburg real estate company had opened up the Hansa district from 1874 onwards. Other reasons for naming Hansaviertel were that it through the nearby Hamburger Bahnhof and by Spree and Elbe with Hamburg is connected and that Berlin and Hamburg in the 14th and 15th centuries by the Hanse had stood in relationship to each other.

History and location

The square formed the first focal point of the Hansa district; Altonaer Strasse , Klopstockstrasse and Lessingstrasse crossed here in a star shape . The construction of residential houses was carried out in block perimeter development , the style of the houses belonged to historicism . The names of the streets, also named after poets , should be reminiscent of Hamburg, for example that Klopstock is buried in Hamburg-Ottensen .

Hansaplatz became known through the neurological clinic , which emerged from a former private sanatorium in 1927–1932 and was built and managed by the neurologist Friedrich Heinrich Lewy .

In the 1950s, Hansaplatz developed into the focal point of the southern Hansaviertel, a model settlement of Classical Modernism , which was built from 1955 to 1960 as part of the 1957 International Building Exhibition , Interbau . For the construction of the new settlement, the course of Lessingstrasse was changed in such a way that only two streets cross at the new Hansaplatz: at first these were only Altonaer Strasse and Klopstockstrasse, the northern part of Klopstockstrasse was renamed Bartningallee in 1960 . The open spaces of the square were mainly designed by Herta Hammerbacher from Berlin and Edvard Jacobson from Karlstad , Sweden .

Due to the loose development of the residential area, the space has no sharp boundaries. The Victory Column (in the south-east), the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche (in the south) and an underpass of the tram route (in the north-west) are within sight . The buildings on the square do not run parallel to the street, but at an angle - all of the houses have a corner facing the street. All buildings on the square are for communal use ( subway station , shopping center, cinema or theater, church, library). As in the entire southern Hansaviertel, the boundaries between private and public open spaces are mostly invisible here; the church garden and the restaurant garden at the Grips-Theater are an exception . The northern and southern square segments are architecturally linked: by two underground entrances, by the single-storey building and by the design element of the inner courtyard. In contrast to this are the high bell tower on the western segment and the undeveloped area of ​​the eastern section. In the paths designed by Hammerbach, stone pavements and adjacent lawns and flowerbeds interlocked, making the overarching idea of ​​the Hansaviertel, the alternation of development and green areas, visible in detail; this feature has been lost, the variety of materials used in the road surfaces is preserved.

The northern segment of the Hansaplatz between Altonaer Straße and Bartningallee includes

  • one of the two entrances to the Hansaplatz underground station,
  • an open shopping arcade with atrium courtyards and 13 shops,
  • a theater building that has housed the Grips children's and youth theater since 1974 (in earlier years the Bellevue cinema) and
  • a restaurant.

The entire complex of this segment was built between 1957 and 1960 according to plans by Ernst Zinsser and Hansrudolf Plarre ; In 1975 extensions by Plarre and Manfred Frankenberger were added. The green areas in this part were designed by Pietro Porcinai and Gustav Lüttge . The facade of the theater building has been showing a mosaic of painted ceramic tiles based on a drawing by Rainer Hachfeld since the 1970s . All buildings in this section are connected to one another by roofs; the change between open and roofed areas leads to the dissolution of the boundary between inside and outside.

Stand in the western part of the square, between Altonaer Strasse and Klopstockstrasse

  • the Roman Catholic St. Ansgar Church with the parish hall and rectory; it was designed by Willy Kreuer and consecrated in 1957,
  • a daycare center.

In the southern segment, between Altonaer Strasse and Klopstockstrasse, are

  • a library building designed by Werner Düttmann and Siegfried Böhmer and completed in 1957, it is located around an open inner courtyard with the bronze figure Vegetative Plastic I by Bernhard Heiliger (1955); the library's large glass windows can be completely sunk into the floor. Originally the municipal public library on Hansaplatz was housed in this building and started lending operations in 1958. The inscription "Hansa bücherei " dates from this time ; Since the 21st century, the building has housed a district library for the Mitte district with around 35,000 media; the listed building is now officially called the Hansa Library ,
  • the southern entrance of the Hansaplatz underground station , with a glass mosaic by Fritz Winter from 1958 on the outer wall,
  • the sculpture Dawn No. 1 by Berto Lardera , which was also installed in 1958.

In the eastern section, between Altonaer Straße and Bartningallee, there is a green area

  • with a five-meter-high, non-representational and unnamed sculpture by Hans Uhlmann made of partly chrome-plated and nickel-plated steel, which was erected around 1957
  • as well as with the bronze sculpture reclining by Alfredo Ceschiatti from 1958.

The square is directly connected to the underground network via the Hansaplatz underground station . The U9 line, which runs in a north-south direction, stops here; the next station to the south is the Zoologischer Garten station , and to the north is the Turmstraße underground station . The underground structures of the station were built between 1955 and 1957, according to plans by Bruno Grimmek and Werner Klenke. The closest S-Bahn station is Bellevue station , about one kilometer from the intersection. The Großer Stern , the central square in the Großer Tiergarten, is at the same distance . The connection between Hansaplatz and the Großer Stern is made through Altonaer Straße; it flows into the Strasse des 17. Juni at the Großer Stern and connects Hansaplatz with the east-west axis of the city for car traffic.

Since 1995 the square (like the entire quarter) with all above-ground and underground buildings as well as the gardens are under monument protection ; since 2006, the district office in central Berlin has had it restored as true to the original as possible. The shopping center, which was renovated by the Senate Building Department in 2007, was in poor condition. The center's dealers have a difficult economic situation.

literature

  • Margret Benninghoff, Sibylle Schulz: The Hansaplatz and the public green spaces . In: Landesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The Hansaviertel in Berlin. Meaning, reception, redevelopment . Imhof, Petersberg 2007, pp. 69-77
  • Gabriele Schulz, Klaus Lingenauber: The open spaces and gardens of the Hansaviertel . In: Landesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The Hansaviertel in Berlin. Meaning, reception, redevelopment . Imhof, Petersberg 2007, pp. 29-35

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bertram Janiszewski: The old Hansa district in Berlin . Berlin 2000, p. 32.
  2. ^ Bertram Janiszewski: The old Hansa district in Berlin . Berlin 2000, p. 33.
  3. ↑ Michael Christian Hondros: The history of the neurological clinic at Hansaplatz with special consideration of the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring 1933/34 (dissertation) , accessed on February 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Monument complex buildings of the "Interbau 57" & Hansaviertel
  5. ^ Jörg Kuhn: Plastic art in public space . In: Landesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The Hansaviertel in Berlin. Meaning, reception, redevelopment . Imhof, Petersberg 2007, pp. 60–64, here: p. 62.
  6. ^ Hansaplatz (underground station) . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  7. ↑ Die Alte Linie G ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2010 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. Berliner-Untergrundbahn.de; accessed on January 21, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de
  8. ↑ Classical Modernism in Crisis . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 17, 2007.
  9. ↑ Platz da !: Episode 1 - Der Hansaplatz , in: Der Tagesspiegel , April 19, 2012, accessed on September 26, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 4.5 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 31.6"  E