Hornstrasse

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Hornstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Hornstrasse
Hornstrasse in the direction of Yorckstrasse
Basic data
place Berlin
District Kreuzberg
Created 1873
Hist. Names Street A, Section III of the development plan
Connecting roads
Möckernstrasse (west)
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 250 meters

The Horn road is running in east-west direction road in Berlin's district Kreuzberg of the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg .

Planning history

The course of Hornstrasse was determined in 1855 by Peter Joseph Lenné and in 1862 in the Hobrecht Plan . This development plan for the area around Berlin envisaged the construction of Hornstrasse as part of the general train , a series of wide streets and squares in Kreuzberg and Schöneberg . Until 1873 the route was also referred to as street A, section III of the development plan. Yorkstrasse had been planned as the name since 1864 . Instead, on August 24, 1873, the street was named after Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn , a close confidante of General Yorck .

Lenné and Hobrecht's plans could not be implemented in the Hornstrasse area : the reason for this was the railway area in the run-up to the Anhalter and Potsdam train stations . In the area of ​​the originally planned course of the general train, extensive track systems were built, especially the Anhalter freight station. Crossing the railway site about 400 meters south in the area of ​​today's Yorckbrücken was found to be easier, as a far fewer number of bridges were required there. The Yorckstraße was swung to the southwest, the Hornstraße accounted for as part of the Generalszugs.

In the course of the Germania planning of the National Socialists in the 1930s and 1940s, the facilities of the Potsdam and Anhalter freight depots were to be given up to make room for the new north-south axis . Associated with this was the continuation of Hornstrasse along the historical route to Bülowstrasse .

A station complex for S-Bahn and U-Bahn was planned below the intersection . The S-Bahn lines of the Wannseebahn and those of the Anhalter and Dresdner Bahn from the south as well as the north-south tunnel and a new line to be built from the Görlitz train station from the north were to converge in the ten-track Hornstrasse station . The underground station was planned because the entire railway system around the Gleisdreieck would have had to be redesigned . However, the plans were never implemented.

present

Memorial plaque on Hornstrasse 3, designed by Christa Ludwig in 1987
Christ Church, 1963–1964 Replacement building for the church on Stresemannstrasse, which was built a hundred years earlier and destroyed in 1945.

The width of the tree-lined street, which is unusually wide, even by Berlin standards, is still reminiscent of the planning history. The residential development on Hornstrasse was built in the 1880s and 1890s. Hornstrasse is now a dead end for motor traffic and is only accessible from Möckernstrasse in the west. At the eastern end with the busy Yorckstrasse, the beer garden of the Yorckschlösschen partially borders on Hornstrasse.

The Protestant Christ Church from 1964 is located at Hornstrasse 7/8 (see picture).

At Hornstrasse 3 there is a memorial plaque commemorating the resistance fighter Ursula Goetze .

Ten stumbling blocks (Hornstrasse 6, Hornstrasse 11, Hornstrasse 19, Hornstrasse 23) remind of the fate of former residents of these houses:

  • Benno Wolf , cave explorers and conservationists, who in 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp was murdered
  • Georg Kotte (* 1888), murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944
  • Willy Cahn (* 1880), deported to Theresienstadt in 1944, murdered in Auschwitz
  • Max Kolsen (* 1881), escaped to death on January 10, 1942
  • Adolf Ringer (* 1883), deported in 1941, murdered in Riga
  • Emma Ringer, b. Spitz (* 1888), deported in 1941, murdered in Riga
  • Agnes Löwenthal, b. Salinger (* 1866), deported in 1942, Theresienstadt
  • Jenny Stein, b. Arnhelm (* 1888), deported in 1943; 31. Eastern transport
  • Gertrud Arnhelm (* 1893), deported in 1943, murdered in Auschwitz
  • Charlotte Arnhelm (* 1892), deported in 1943, murdered in Auschwitz.

The first part of the park at Gleisdreieck was opened on September 2, 2011 . At the west end of Hornstrasse, on the other side of Möckernstrasse, one of the main entrances leads into the green area with a wide staircase and a barrier-free ramp.

In 2019, the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen introduced a motion to the “demilitarization of public space” in the District Assembly (BVV) Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , to initiate a public discourse and participation process about a possible renaming of Hornstrasse and the other in the district after Generals and Initiate battles on named streets and squares.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the planning history: Johann Friedrich Geist , Klaus Kürvers : The Berlin tenement house 1862–1945. Prestel, Munich 1984. ISBN 3-7913-0696-0 , pp. 142-169
  2. ↑ Building age map from Geist, Kürvers: Mietshaus , after p. 360
  3. ↑ Group Xhain: DS / 1154 / V - Demilitarization of the public space. In: Green Xhain. March 7, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Antje Lang-Lendorff: Renaming streets in Berlin: What Kreuzberg is up to . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 19, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 29, 2019]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 39 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 54 ″  E