Hiroshima Street
Hiroshima Street | |
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Street in Berlin | |
Hiroshimastraße with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation | |
Basic data | |
place | Berlin |
District | Zoo |
Created | 1862 |
Newly designed | 1990 |
Hist. Names |
Hohenzollernstrasse (1862–1933), Graf-Spee-Strasse (1933–1990) |
Connecting roads | north: Tiergartenstrasse south: Reichpietschufer |
Buildings | see: here |
use | |
User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
Technical specifications | |
Street length | 320 meters |
The Hiroshima street is a street in the Berlin district of Tiergarten , after the Japanese port city of Hiroshima is named.
history
The street was laid out in 1862 as Hohenzollernstraße . In 1933 the name was changed to Graf-Spee-Straße . This dedication to Admiral Graf Spee was related to the nearby building of the Reichsmarineamt .
On November 1, 1990, following a resolution by the District Assembly, it was named the first city on which an atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 . This was intended to change the name of a street "which reminded of a former military , but above all the feeling of solidarity with the city of Hiroshima, since the first atomic bomb might have been dropped on Berlin."
Remarkable structures
The street is only 320 meters long, but due to its location in the diplomatic quarter it has a large number of buildings worth seeing (from north to south):
- Japanese Embassy : The building in the classicism style was built between 1938 and 1942 according to plans by Ludwig Moshamer . During the Second World War , a side wing was destroyed by an aerial bomb; After the war, the building stood empty for several decades before the idea of building a German-Japanese cultural center in the building was pursued in the mid-1980s. However, the damage was so great that Japan commissioned the architects Kishō Kurokawa and Tajii Yamaguchi to rebuild it in an identical form.
- Italian Embassy : The embassy building was built between 1939 and 1941 according to plans by Friedrich Hetzelt in a neoclassical style. This building was also badly damaged in the war, so that it could only be used as a consulate in the west wing. From 1971 to 2003, the agency moved into a building on Unter den Linden , only to move back in here after a renovation in accordance with listed buildings.
- Embassy of the United Arab Emirates : The embassy building was built by the architects Tom Krause and Astrid Bohne from Eschweiler and is sometimes referred to as the “Palace from the Arabian Nights ”.
- Representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia : The building was constructed by Karl-Heinz Petzinka from 2000 to 2002and houses the state representation of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level . The coalition agreement between the CDU , CSU and FDP was negotiatedhere in 2009.
- Representation of the state of Bremen : The building was built by the Berlin architects Léon - Wohlhage - Wernik . It consists of two separate structures that create a connection between the classic Berlin perimeter block development on Reichpietschufer and the city villas on Hiroshimastraße.
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : The building is a branch of the party-affiliated foundation of the SPD .
Planning
An embassy building for Portugal is planned diagonally across from the Representation of the State of Bremen . To the north of it, the new embassy building of Greece is to be built: On the property there was a villa by Robert Leibnitz from the years 1911 and 1912, which was used by Greece from 1920 until the end of the Second World War. After the war it was used by the Allies and abandoned in 1988 after fire damage caused by squatters . The remains of the listed villa will be integrated into the new building.
Others
- To the south of Hiroshimastraße is the Hiroshimasteg , a pedestrian bridge over the Landwehr Canal .
- Granite slabs from Pedras Salgadas , Portugal, were used for the sidewalk .
Web links
- Hiroshima Street. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Entries in the Berlin State Monument List: Italian Embassy andGreek embassy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hiroshimastrasse . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ^ Greetings from the Japanese Ambassador on the occasion of the "Conference for Peace" on August 5, 2009 , accessed on January 4, 2012.
- ↑ Italian Embassy ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2011 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. at berlin.de, accessed on January 4, 2012.
- ↑ Embassy of the United Arab Emirates ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2010 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. at berlin.de, accessed on January 4, 2012.
- ↑ Philipp Wittwock: Seehofer can no longer leave the FDP In: Spiegel Online . October 27, 2009, accessed January 4, 2012.
- ↑ The 9th Embassy Walk : Like the pearls on a necklace on baunetz.de, accessed on January 4, 2012.
- ↑ Information on the new building of the Greek embassy ( memento of July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on greek-botschaft.de, accessed on January 4, 2012.
- ↑ Hiroshimastraße in Berlin ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2009 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. on stone-park.de, accessed on January 4, 2012.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 30 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 29.5 ″ E