Herzbergstrasse

Herzbergstrasse
Street in Berlin
Basic data
place	Berlin
District	Lichtenberg
Created	19th century
Hist. Names	Herzbergerstrasse
Connecting roads	Karl-Lade-Strasse (west) , Allee der Kosmonauten (east)
Cross streets	Weißenseer Weg , Möllendorffstrasse , Vulkanstrasse, Am Wasserwerk, Siegfriedstrasse
Places	Roederplatz
Buildings	see: Architecture in Herzbergstrasse
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length	2570 meters

The Herzbergstraße is running in east-west direction, almost 2.6 kilometer long street in Berlin's Lichtenberg district , which was in the 19th and 20th centuries as a major industrial center and the many listed are preserved building.

History and location

With the settlement of factories from the middle of the 19th century in the municipality of Lichtenberg, the previously largely fallow areas north of the village center were built on. For the development, a west-east connecting road was created, which was officially called Herzbergerstrasse since 1893 , later changed to Herzbergstrasse . An important factor was the construction of the Tegel – Friedrichsfelde industrial line , which provided sidings for the factories on both sides.

The name origin is not fully secured, as the most likely explanation is a derivative of the popular name of the hill terrain as Herzberge adopted, according to which even the hospital was designated.

The numbering begins on the southern side of the street at Roederplatz at the intersection with Möllendorffstraße with house number 1 (at the westernmost point) and runs to number 78 at the very eastern end. Then it goes on the north side of the street from the Evangelical Hospital Queen Elisabeth Herzberge with the number 79 back in a westerly direction to the last number 155 ( the following illustration of the street with its buildings is based on this horseshoe numbering ).

The geographic coordinate refers to the intersection of Herzbergstrasse and Siegfriedstrasse.

Herzbergstrasse industrial estate

In terms of urban planning , Herzbergstrasse is part of the commercial area of ​​the same name, which extends from Landsberger Allee in the north to the southern row of houses on Josef-Orlopp-Strasse and from Vulkanstrasse in the west to the Herzberge Landscape Park in the east.

The business park is an important inner-city business location, the importance of which is also reflected in the Senate's urban development plan for industry and commerce . More than 850 companies with over 8,400 employees are based on the approximately 190  hectare site.

The area, which used to be predominantly industrial, has changed a lot since German reunification . There have been no large farms here since the 1990s. Industrial and general manufacturing operations have decreased significantly in the area, the size of the existing businesses has decreased, but their number has increased. The demand for the existing commercial space was weak for a long time, but increased sharply in the course of the overall increasing competition for available commercial space in Berlin in the 2010s. This led u. a. to fears that resident companies could be displaced from the area, as well as high expectations on the part of the property owners with regard to the development possibilities of their areas on the part of the property owners, which is why there are requirements for action with regard to the security and development of the commercial site.

From December 2015 until the end of 2018, the business park was one of nine national model projects for the sustainable development of commercial areas in experimental residential and urban development (ExWoSt) of the Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research , at the initiative of the Lichtenberg District Office for Economic Development , developing, practically testing and evaluating urban planning and process-related approaches in the research field. This was preceded by a location analysis in 2014 and the establishment of an area management in summer 2015.

In connection with the steadily increasing number of tradespeople, the company network Herzbergstrasse was founded on February 20, 2017 . The founders aim to secure the industrial area as a place of work for around 8,400 people. Working groups of the 16 member companies (as of February 2018) recruit trainees and, if necessary, skilled workers, take care of improving broadband internet access and organize the inexpensive purchase of equipment. This network was supported organizationally and financially by the above-mentioned model.

Berlin's Asiatown in the east

Store in the Dong Xuan Center

Since 2006, under the leadership of the wholesale market, Dong Xuan GmbH , an Asian quarter (Asiatown or Chinatown ) has been established for East Berlin along Herzbergstrasse , especially around the site of the former VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg . Originally, small-scale shops, mixed residential areas, gastronomic offers, commercial agencies, hotels and other market halls for Asian goods were to be created. The Dong Xuan Center ( location ), as a wholesale complex with predominantly Asian dealers and goods in the Herzbergstrasse industrial park, became a strong economic factor for the Lichtenberg district. The center, named after the historical market of the same name (Chợ Đồng Xuân) in Hanoi's old quarter , is also known as Little Hanoi .

In the western part of the city there is a high concentration of Asian and Chinese service providers, businesses and residents in the City West , especially along Kantstrasse in Charlottenburg .

architecture

Residential buildings and access to the landscape park

The first section of the street to the intersection with Vulkanstraße (up to house number 10) is dominated by two long fronts of different prefabricated building types belonging to the Lichtenberg housing association , which were built between 1975 and 1985. These could be renovated by 1998 and the two rows of houses are noticeable today because of the rainbow-shaped tile facades, about which there was some discussion. In the course of Herzbergstrasse there are numerous earlier or newly built company buildings, one residential building is empty (No. 29), below house number range 54 there is a somewhat inconspicuous and recessed apartment block that was built around 1930.

Cross-standing block of flats on Herzbergstrasse

Shortly before the end of Herzbergstrasse there is an access to two allotment gardens ( Eisenbahn and Roeder ) and immediately next to it is a two-story plastered house at number 78, which has been extended to the rear with a four-story new building. Quite hidden in a small wood there are two villas opposite the hospital grounds, which were built for the families of the doctors working in the hospital and now serve as a day care center (forest house) and hospice .

At this point is the northern access to the Herzberge landscape park, which was established in 2010 from the former service yard of the hospital and other areas of the allotment gardens . This is being gradually expanded and can be reached by means of a footpath and bike path, some of which are on the former track .

Former civil servants' villas in Herzbergstrasse (houses 20 and 21 of the hospital)

The next residential development is on the north side of the street at number 104, a building from the beginning of the 20th century. Right next to it is a small, inconspicuous former tenement house at number 106, which is now used by a carpentry shop. This is followed by a residential row under the house numbers 125–127, which forms a street front with the former Elektrokohle administration building . Initially the working-class families of the nearby plants lived here, a few years after 1990 foreign residents lived here, and the houses have been for sale since around 2005.

In front of Vulkanstrasse, at number 140, there is a tenement house built before 1933, which adjoins the factory halls of the former VEB Elektrokohle. The last residential buildings on the north side of the Herzbergstrasse are under the house numbers 149–155, which belong to the buildings of the WGLi opposite.

The Dreieinigkeit allotment gardens existed here until the 1970s ; In 1943–1945, a barrack camp for Russian and Ukrainian forced laborers who had to work in the aerospace apparatus construction plant was built on a partial area . The end of the residential buildings is a twin high-rise (access: Weißenseer Weg  1/2), which at the time was the first completed house for the then new Lichtenberg (north) district. Most of the families of the diplomatic missions accredited in the GDR moved into this block of flats .

A former pedestrian tunnel under this intersection, running parallel to Herzbergstrasse to the north, was converted into a disco club ( BBC "tube" ) by 2011 .

From the adjoining Lichtenberg (north) district, the independent district of Fennpfuhl developed in the following years .

Commercial buildings

More important are the large, partly listed industrial buildings on Herzbergstrasse , which begin on Vulkanstrasse and extend on both sides of the street to the hospital grounds. The following table gives an overview of the larger buildings and commercial areas from the first owner or builder to their current use.

South side of the street

House no.	Company, client - until approx. 1948 -	GDR companies - 1949 to 1990 -	Current users (from 2015)
19-21	From approx. 1900 to 1937: Emil Ludewig & Carl Büttner large export slaughterhouse as well as a fuel and pressed yeast factory south of it all the way to the former Rittergutstraße, from 1938 planning and expansion to the international slaughterhouse of the city of Berlin	VE Fleischkombinat Berlin	Commercial center: construction recycling company, vehicle self-repair hall, painting company, vehicle expert, winter clearance services, facade cleaning, carpentry workshop, etc. a.
22-26	Borchert packaging; later machine factory Ferdinand Osenberg	around 1960 VEB packaging works, VEB Baukombinat Erfurt, part of Narva - in three-storey prefabricated buildings (prisoners also worked under supervision in these companies)	front JET gas station since 2000; at the back Universal-Verpackemittel GmbH
28/29	Dobrin & Co., Lackfabrik (No. 28) and Bewag , Umformerstation (No. 29)	VEB ASOL chemistry	the building directly on the street is empty, in the back there are four service providers for construction
33/34	a lumber yard		New building with various administrations of construction companies and the Lichtenberg workshop for the disabled, Herzbergstrasse branch
35-39	Reich Monopoly Administration (1932); Mineralölwerk Lichtenberg GmbH & Co. KG, a preserved warehouse in half-timbered style (No. 35)	Combine metal processing: Hüttenwerk Emil Schmidt	KMAB Schrott und Service Berlin GmbH
40-43	Collection point of the Reichsmonopolyverwaltung Autohof	1971–1990 ready to drive the GDR Council of Ministers	Small trades, trades, artist studios The property has been owned by the art collectors Axel and Barbara Haubrok since January 2013, who set up the Haubrok Art Foundation here and have since regularly shown art under the name haubrokprojects . In 2015/2016, the Haubroks had a new building built on the site (called Gewerberiegel ), which was based on plans by Arno Bradlhuber . The topping-out ceremony will take place on November 25, 2016 .
46-48	Iron and piece sheet trading company E. Wiese & Co. mbH	VEB metal processing Berlin	Alba Metallaufverarbeitung Berlin and scrap receiving point Eggert Elevator Construction in an adjacent, recessed new building
50	Fuel bank brick building	VEB steel structures	Eggert Lift-Technik GmbH and Tepper-Aufzüge
51-53 54	Berlin skin recycling German skin recycling eGmbH and recycling for slaughter products	VEB animal raw materials	Business park for service providers around the car (tire service, traffic technology ...) or around the house
55	Van den Bergh Margarine AG and Jurgen-van den Bergh-Margarine-Sales-Union and Malex, Margarine-Lagerungs- und Expeditions-Ges. Berolina Schmalzsiederei and Fettverwertungs-Ges.	Margarinewerke Berolina built by Karl Schramm around 1909 and expanded in 1916; 7000 m² area	In 2007, an American and a French investor bought the building complex. You rent parts of it to artists (HB55 - RÄUME DER KUNST) and creative people ( Hackerspace AFRA - Department for Redundancy Department ), but also to other traders. There is a play palace (Vulkan-Stern) and an Airstream-Catering restaurant on the street, a vehicle gearbox specialist and a specialist for classic off-road vehicles in the buildings that extend far to the rear ... - a total of 20 companies testify to the coexistence of arts and crafts.
56–59 at the corner of Siegfriedstrasse	Storage place	VEB industrial and power plant pipelines Bitterfeld (demolished)	New building around 1995: Peugeot Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH and five other companies
64/65 66/67	Soda-Vertriebs-GmbH (No. 65) Blechindustrie KG	VEB Berliner Metallguß und Modellbau	Motor vehicle trade and service providers
68-70	Primus Traktorgesellschaft Joh.Köhler & Co. KG until 1945, then in Miesbach ( Bavaria )	VE foreign and domestic trade company metallurgy trade	PTL Powder Coating Technology Lichtenberg GmbH
74-76	Petrol-Licht- und Kraft-Gesellschaft later Deutsche Treibstoffwerke AG: between 1942 and 1945 there was a barrack for foreign forced laborers on the company premises.The company buildings are divided into several individual buildings, which were marked as House A, House B, C etc.	Administration of Kombinat Minol	Ambulance transport, car service, orthopedic shoemaker Almost all houses have not been renovated, at least on the outside (as of May 2016).

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  Newly built gas station

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  Newly built office building

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  Old timber-framed warehouse on the site of the scrap receiving point

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  Former Berolina margarine factory

North side of the street

House no.	Company, client - until approx. 1948 -	GDR companies - 1949 to 1990 -	Current users (2008)
79	Specialist hospital for neurology and psychiatry and Queen Elisabeth Hospital (internal medicine, surgery) built by Hermann Blankenstein 1889–1893 and expanded in 1910; Clinic building, small pavilions, a porter's house, its own boiler house, underground connecting corridors, Christian chapel; All listed buildings In September 1942 and spring 1943, a barrack for up to 36 sick slave laborers from various Berlin barracks camps was opened on the hospital grounds	between 1942 and 1946 general medical hospital, after which both medical institutions were again run separately	In 1992, after extensive renovation of all the buildings on the site, the two houses merged to form the Evangelical Hospital Queen Elisabeth Herzberge (KEH) in connection with the Berlin Charité
82-86	" AGA", automobile sales company ; built 1916–1919 by Bruno Buch , manufacturer of the AGA car. In 1940, the Berlin address book indicates the city of Berlin as the owner ( Reich Treasury ) and a military-oriented medical park	Kombinat wholesale "goods for daily needs" (WtB)	Reconstructed in accordance with listed buildings, today called "Corvushaus" after the company "BBJ Corvus GmbH Living, Learning, Working, Culture Berlin" as well as a medical center, some special hospital facilities, technical building services
87-89	undeveloped		"R&S Elevator Construction" and "Powder Coating Technology"
90-99	The property belonged to the "Terraingesellschaft Rittergut" and was not built on. In the spring of 1943, the city of Berlin bought the property and built a barrack for Dutch slave laborers who worked in the surrounding factories	New building around 1970 for "VEB Lufttechnische Anlagen"	"Berliner Luft": Production and sales of ventilation and air conditioning equipment; Car rental " Sixt " and another 15 small businesses
100		Administrative building for a foreign trade company	Canteen, rehearsal rooms
105/106	"Maschinenfabrik H. Boldt" From 1940 a "special factory for soap industry facilities" appeared on the scene.	"Kombinat Autotrans", "VEB supply transports Berlin"	"Autotrans" driving school and vehicle repair shop
111/112	Rectifier and substation	"VEB steel structures" and continued use of the electrical works	empty
118 later changed to 117a	Bewag's "Holzlagerei und Bau AG" (municipal electricity works / transformer works with its own repair hall)	Further use of the work	Vattenfall Europe Berlin
119-124	"Beton- und Monierbau" No. 120 "Hartung & Jachmann AG", iron foundry (122–124)	from 1945 to approx. 1952 "Foundry and model making Hartung & Jachmann" from 1953 "VEB foundry and model making" (GMB): developed and manufactured a. a. Winches and davits for shipbuilding	The gatekeeper and administration house stood empty for several years, around 2011 it was demolished (see picture); The rear buildings are used by the successor company "Gießerei und Modellbau Berlin GmbH" (GMB) and the "Hydraulics Service". From around 2010 new buildings were built on the site, in which workshops and studios for students of the UdK and a neon glass blowing workshop were set up. The Kunsthaus Karibuni , a shop for arts and crafts , has established itself in one of the buildings on the area (house numbers 122/123) .
125/126	Along the street, a residential complex “Fesca” (No. 126, in the courtyard), also the Berlin branch of the life insurance company Deutscher Ring , was based here.	Residential wing received	small craft business; Residential house vacant after an illegal temporary use since the 2000s
127	" Siemens & Halske "; later “Gottlieb Büchner. Ventilation systems "	Administration building for " VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg "	numerous small service companies
128-139	"Siemens & Halske"; from 1928 to 1948 "Siemens-Plania AG"	from 1950 " VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg "	Asian trade center "Dong Xuan" H24 Hotzel Lichtenberg
140-149	"Hirsch AG" 1943–1945 there were up to five barracks on the site for French forced laborers who worked in the "Berlin steel, building and bridge construction" company	"VEB Metall Leichtbaukombinat" (corner of Vulkanstrasse)	"China Shoe Center"
147-162	Residential houses and allotments	Residential buildings, department stores, high-rise buildings	Residential buildings, newly built REWE branch, high-rise buildings

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  Gatehouse of the KEH hospital

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  Building of the former "Automobilvertriebs-Gesellschaft", today "Corvushaus"

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  Building of the company "Berliner Luft" with a boulder fountain

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  West end of Herzbergstrasse, since 2011 new Roederplatz

traffic

On June 12, 1893, a horse-drawn tram line of the Neue Berliner Pferdebahn-Gesellschaft was put into operation along Herzbergstrasse, which was electrified on October 1, 1901. Around 1960 the tram line 69 and the O-bus O30 ran through Herzbergstraße . In addition, industrial railway tracks ran parallel to the road on both sides , which supplied the companies with material and brought the finished products to Lichtenberg station or in the other direction for onward transport.

Today the tram lines M8, 21, 37 run through Herzbergstraße and it is crossed by the bus line 256 in the Siegfriedstraße area. There is a direct road connection with the Allee der Kosmonauten through the hospital grounds, which, however, can only be used by special vehicles.

After some areas between Herzbergstrasse and Landsberger Allee had been gutted, a new road was laid out at house numbers 110/111, which was named "Am Wasserwerk" because of its proximity to the Lichtenberg intermediate pumping station .

Art and remembrance

Monument to the Liberation from Fascism on the grounds of the KEH hospital

Ceramic column by Doris Pollatschek ; hidden under a wooden panel for years; stored after the middle section of the former EKL culture center was torn down (status: autumn 2017)

• In front of the new building for "ventilation systems", the then Lichtenberg district office had a fountain made of several large granite boulders set up on a rectangular, walled basin; it will continue to operate in the summer months.
• There are several works of art on the KEH site: in the green area in front of the main building, there is a fountain with a sandstone bowl eight meters in diameter and a central fountain that can rise up to around five meters. In the extensive green areas there are other objects, of which the "Monument to the Liberation from Fascism " from 1945 (artificial stone, 5.50 m high) should be mentioned.
• A source gives the reference to an artistically designed ceramic column by Doris Pollatschek , which stands in front of the former vocational school for trade (later Kulturhaus Elektrokohle). The column represents the globe on a stand and is badly damaged by the weather. Since around 2010, the work of art has been permanently enclosed so that it can at least be preserved.
• At the residential building at Herzbergstrasse 104 there was a memorial plaque for the politician Ernst Reinke who was murdered in the Flossenbürg concentration camp with the inscription:

“This is where the anti-fascist resistance fighter Ernst Reinke lived . on November 28, 1891,
murdered on April 28, 1943. Honor his memory! "

The plaque was removed after 1990.

literature

• The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Capital Berlin . Vol. II. Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, Berlin 1987

Web links

Commons : Herzbergstraße  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Herzbergstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
• Industriegebiet Herzbergstrasse on a city map from 1926 with registered factories

Remarks

1. ↑ The Herzberg is one of the few remaining inland dunes in Europe. It is more than 10,000 years old and gave its name to the heart mountains as the highest natural elevation in the landscape.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herzbergstrasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1897, part 5, Lichtenberg, p. 80.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sustainable further development of commercial areas - An ExWoSt research field (= ExWoSt information . No. 49/1). Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (BBSR) at the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), April 2016, ISSN  0937-1664 , pp. 12-13, accessed on April 16, 2017 (PDF; 5.7 MB) .
3. ^ Klaus Teßmann: Herzbergstrasse: Entrepreneur network brought into being . In: Berliner Woche , February 23, 2017, accessed on April 16, 2017.
4. ↑ Area management of the Herzbergstrasse commercial site . In: Lichtenberg company portal , Lichtenberg district office, accessed on April 16, 2017.
5. ↑ Press release of the Lichtenberg District Office from February 23, 2018: Company network in the Herzbergstrasse industrial park celebrates its first birthday . City Councilor for Economic Affairs Birgit Monteiro congratulated with a birthday cake that had been made by the neighboring company, the Plötner bakery.
6. ↑ Inquiry to the Berlin Senate regarding the establishment of the Asia Center from 2004, small inquiry from MPs Claudia Hämmerling (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) of March 24, 2004 (received by the House of Representatives on April 1, 2004) and response to food wholesaling on contaminated sites of Elektrokohle Berlin? ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 124 kB)
7. ↑ The course has been set - you can build on it ( Memento from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Vinagrillente, accessed on October 19, 2014.
8. ↑ History of origin . Website of the Dong Xuan Center Berlin, accessed on April 16, 2017.
9. ↑ Stefanie Flamm: Dong Xuan Center: With skin and cartilage . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/2013, March 7, 2013, accessed on April 16, 2017.
10. ^ The Dong Xuan Center - Klein-Hanoi in Berlin . In: ARD-Buffet , January 19, 2016 (3:31 min).
11. ↑ Little Hanoi in Berlin . At: Deutsche Welle , August 20, 2013 (2:51 min).
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Locations of forced labor camps in the Berlin area that were built in 1942 based on a law of the Reich Labor Ministry. (PDF; 45 kB)
13. ^ Ludewig, Emil & Carl Büttner> Groß-Exportfleischerei Lichtenberg . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, I, p. 1910.
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Herzbergstrasse from number 21> Stadt Berlin. City Livestock and Slaughterhouse> Abroad slaughterhouse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1939, IV, p. 2257.
15. ↑ ^{a b} Berlin map 1932 ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
16. ↑ Homepage of the recycling company KMAB
17. ^ New art center in Lichtenberg - Back to the future . In: Berliner Zeitung , 26./27. January 2013; Retrieved February 1, 2013.
18. ^ Website on Haubrok Foundation / Collection / Projects , accessed on June 3, 2013.
19. ↑ Press release of haubrokprojects: topping new commercial bars , November 8th 2016th
20. ↑ Herzbergstrasse 46-49 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, II, p. 154.
21. ↑ Homepage of Eggert-Werke ( Memento from September 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
22. ↑ Information on Tepper elevators , accessed on February 24, 2018.
23. ↑ State monument list Berlin: former margarine works
24. ↑ ^{a b c} Susanne Lenz: Only the brushes come from Japan. Rieko Hotta works in a studio in Lichtenberg. The art scene there shows its works for one night. In: Berliner Zeitung , 15./16. September 2012, p. 23
25. ↑ HB55 - ROOMS OF ART. In: Center for artistic and craft workshops. Art factory HB55, accessed April 13, 2014 . 
26. ^ K. Riekehr: Department for Redundancy Department. In: Hackerspace. Department-for-Redundancy-Department e. V., accessed April 13, 2014 . 
27. ↑ Homepage Peugeot Lichtenberg
28. ↑ State monument list Berlin: former city mental asylum Herzberge
29. ↑ State monument list Berlin: former city mental asylum Herzberge and extension buildings
30. ↑ State monument list Berlin: automobile sales company
31. ↑ AGA car
32. ↑ ^{a b c d} Herzbergstrasse 82–86 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, IV, p. 2266.
33. ^ BBJ Corvus homepage
34. ↑ After the calm a fresh breeze . Welt online , November 16, 2003; Retrieved May 8, 2009
35. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Herzbergstrasse from number 100 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1939, IV, p. 2258.
36. ↑ State monument list Berlin: rectifier and transformer station
37. ↑ State monument list Berlin: substation repair hall , large gantry crane still preserved
38. ↑ Reference to Lars Joeck's neon glass blowing. , accessed February 15, 2016.
39. ↑ Karibuni Berlin
40. ^ Homepage Hotel H24 , accessed on April 7, 200202.
41. ^ Hans-Joachim Pohl: The new Berlin horse-drawn railway company. The traffic development of Weißensee and Lichtenberg . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Issue 1, 1986, pp. 7 .
42. ^ Pohl: New Berlin Horse Railway Company. The traffic development of Weißensee and Lichtenberg . 1986, p. 9.
43. ^ Sculptures, monuments, fountains in Berlin-Lichtenberg ; Catalog. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , Berlin 1993, p. 50

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '35 "  N , 13 ° 29' 59.3"  E