Helene-Weigel-Platz
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Marzahn |
| Created | 20th century |
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| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , traders |
| Space design | completely redesigned between 2010 and April 2011. |
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| Square area | around 11,000 m² |
| building-costs | 1.5 million € (for the redesign) |
The Helene-Weigel-Platz is a central town square in the Berlin district of Marzahn in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district . Since its installation in 1978, it has been named after Helene Weigel (1900–1971), actress and wife of the writer Bertolt Brecht .
Location and history
The square is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Allee der Kosmonauten / Märkische Allee and was planned and laid out early on as an urban center with its own town hall (number 8) in connection with the construction of the Marzahn I residential quarters. It is located in the catchment area of the Springpfuhl S-Bahn station .
In a solemn ceremony on March 1, 1978, the then district center was given the name of the well-known and committed actress Helene Weigel.
After the political change , many of the surrounding buildings were renovated, some had to be demolished. The main investors were the Treuhandliegenschaftsgesellschaft (TLG) Immobilien together with the district office. Most recently, around 1.5 million euros were spent from the Stadtumbau Ost fund . This work found a symbolic conclusion with the planting of a crabapple tree of the Eleyi variety.
Development on and on Helene-Weigel-Platz
Residential high-rise
In 1985, a 76 meter high residential high-rise was built at Helene-Weigel-Platz 6/7 . In November 1998 it was equipped with a photovoltaic system, which at that time was the largest in Europe (426 m² module area).
town hall
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The council building was completed in 1988 according to plans by an architects' collective from the Bau- und Montagekombinat Ingenieur-Hochbau Berlin (IHB: Wolf-Rüdiger Eisentraut , Karin Bock, Bernd Walther) and is now a listed building. The coat of arms of the Marzahn district, valid around 1983, can be seen above the entrance door. The earlier artistically designed door, decorated with plant ornaments by metal designers Rüdiger Roehl and Jan Skuin , has disappeared since the beginning of 2000 (the Art Commission speaks of “whereabouts unknown”). It is one of only three buildings that were specially built as town halls in the GDR - in Friedrichshain , in Halle (Saale) and in Marzahn.
As a result of the reorganization of the Berlin districts in 2001, the former town hall has become a community center in the district after extensive renovation. Six ceramic torsos are placed on the facade of the town hall and in its interior as art in the building . Peter Makolies created the three-quarter figures that are supposed to cheer up visitors to the house: for example, a man is cuddling a monkey, a woman is caressing her breasts. The bronze figure of a fertility goddess that adorns the anteroom of the registry office comes from the same artist .
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Cultural, sports and commercial buildings
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- A well-known building (Helene-Weigel-Platz 12) is the former “Soyuz” cinema . It is a building from GDR times that was opened in 1982 and has three different cinemas. After the reunification it became the property of the cinema chain Ufa-Theater AG . Despite the spread of the multiplex cinemas , the house still had interested visitors for a few years because it could be operated as a cheap cinema by the Hamburg company K-Motion . In 2008, however, it had to be foreclosed after the UFA went bankrupt . It was then closed. Up to 2012 there was no decision about another use or demolition. In 2013, the new owner, Regie Bauträgergesellschaft mbH , was considering demolishing the cinema building and building a food market there. After differences and further unrealized plans for a "rectangular new building along the Allee der Kosmonauten", the parliamentary groups of the Left and the Pirates proposed in 2014 that the district should acquire the property and convert it into an event building. According to the latest information, the investor wants to start construction work at the end of 2019.
- The Helene-Weigel-Platz swimming pool from the 1980s is part of the Helene-Weigel-Platz . After German reunification, this was technically modernized, the building was refurbished and handicapped accessible. It is also a place for school swimming and various leisure activities.
- In 2019, however, major repair work is due, because individual tiles from the pool floor regularly come off and the pool is leaking at this point. Up to now, the system could be kept usable through quick repairs carried out by divers at night. But the Berlin baths are now planning a complete renovation from summer 2019. The swimming pool will have a stainless steel tub, and a hydraulic partition will also be installed in the middle along the 50 m long pool, which will enable a better separation of the hall users from school and club swimming. The entry and exit of the swimming pool is improved by installing an easily removable stainless steel staircase. The most important measure, however, concerns the water management: the water circulating after the filter cleaning should no longer flow horizontally through the water, but vertically. This creates a better turbulence and all the water reaches the overflow faster. The floor tiles in the lounge area will also be replaced; instead of the large, square beige tiles, smaller and more durable tiles will be applied. The wall tiles remain. In preparation, the entire hall water (around 2000 m³) is drained into the neighboring spring pool via an existing pipe system. This measure was approved by the Marzahn-Hellersdorf health department through a preliminary test of the water quality. The completion of all work is planned for November 2019.
- District library "Erich Weinert".
- In 2011, the center on Helene-Weigel-Platz, a modern retail facility, was also opened on the square. At the south-west entrance, a windowless brick wall has been designed with a ribbon-like plaster relief and the lettering of the square. Opposite there is the Springpfuhl Passage .
- A modern medical center on the edge of the square completes the development.
- The youth club Springpfuhlhaus can be found under the house number Helene-Weigel-Platz 4 .
Art on and around the square
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Fountain of the Generations
(also called stairwell, family, thinker, athlete, motorcycle )
This facility, which dominates the center of the square, was inaugurated in 1990. It comes from the workshop of Rolf Biebl and symbolizes the different ages of a person with its five figures. These are the individual bronze figures.
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The athlete and the somewhat distant motorcycle
A male athlete in futuristic protective clothing stretches towards the sky. Together with the normal size bronze motorcycle, which is shaped like a historical vehicle and can be used for play, it represents the youth. -
The family
mother, father and a child are standing or sitting at a landing on the right in front of the council building on a flat plinth . -
The Thinker
The sculptor has created a naked elderly man who is standing at the very top of the fountain and looking thoughtfully at what is happening beyond the family.
The well system was renovated in 2007.
Medical center
In the foyer of the former polyclinic (Helene-Weigel-Platz 10) there is a bust of the sculptor Siegfried Wehrmeister , which honors the Berlin doctor Ernst Ludwig Heim . Before the reconstruction of the outpatient clinic, the plant stood in the open, referring to the name of the outpatient medical center.
Library In
front of and in the library there have been nameless sculptures by Hans Ticha since 1982 . They are made of different materials and, like Picasso, put together to form an artist.
More Attractions
- The Springpfuhlpark is immediately adjacent to the north .
- Since December 16, 2013 there has been a memorial stone directly on the square with the inscription "1933–1938–1945 Destroyed Diversity". With this, the district office reminds of the places of National Socialist persecution and extermination in Marzahn. At a central location, the victims of the forced labor camp for Sinti and Roma , the Wuhlgarten sanatorium and nursing home and the persecuted Jewish residents in the (today's) district are commemorated.
literature
- Art in the large housing estate. Works of art in public spaces in Marzahn and Hellersdorf. A documentation. Commission for Art in Public Spaces (Thorsten Goldberg, Ellena Olsen, Martin Schönfeld, Andreas Sommerer), published by the Marzahn-Hellersdorf District Office, around 2005, ISBN 978-3-00-026730-7 .
- Joachim Schulz / Werner Gräbner: Berlin - Architecture from Pankow to Köpenick , Berlin 1987, VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, ISBN 3-345-00145-4 , pp. 156–159.
Web links
- Helene-Weigel-Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Project future agency Helene-Weigel-Platz . Contact person on site and supports activities to strengthen and improve the functionality of the district center
Individual evidence
- ^ "Closing tree" for Helene-Weigel-Platz . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 21, 2011; Brief information on the completed renovation of the square, accessed on May 10, 2019.
- ↑ Solar power comes from the house facade. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 24, 1998, accessed on May 10, 2019
- ↑ Marzahn town hall monument
- ↑ a b c Art in the Großsiedlung , pp. 80/81
- ↑ New discussions on the Marzahn town hall . At: lichtenbergmarzahnplus.de
- ↑ Soyuz prefabricated building cinema closes after 26 years. In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 19, 2007, accessed on May 10, 2019
- ↑ Brief information on the Soyuz cinema with the reason for its closure , accessed on April 21, 2011
- ↑ Harald Ritter: A gallery could be built on the cinema grounds . ( Memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Woche , September 5, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2019
- ↑ Birgitt Eltzel: What will happen to the former Sojus cinema on Helene-Weigel-Platz? District should buy ruin. In: LichtenbergMarzahn +. October 29, 2014, accessed May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Hangover for the Soyuz cinema . In: Berliner Woche , November 14, 2018, accessed on May 10, 2019
- ↑ Helene-Weigel-Platz swimming pool “Helmut Behrendt” . On: berlinerbäderbetriebe.de
- ↑ Major construction work on the large pool . In: Berliner Woche , Lichtenberg edition, Fennpfuhl, Rummelsburg, May 8, 2019, p. 4.
- ↑ The new center building on Helene-Weigel-Platz ( Memento of the original from June 30, 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. in the press review, accessed on May 10, 2019
- ^ Website of the Springpfuhlhaus youth club
- ↑ HS Art in the Public Space of the 80s and 90s in Berlin - Marzahn ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7 kB)
- ↑ Brief information on Marzahn in the Berliner Zeitung , December 13, 2013, p. 22 Berlin / Bezirke , accessed on May 10, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 39 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 23 ″ E
