Indira Gandhi Street
| Indira Gandhi Street | |
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| The malt house of the Kindl-Schultheiss-Brewery | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Alt-Hohenschönhausen , Weissensee |
| Created | before the 19th century |
| Hist. Names |
Lichtenberger Weg (before 1871) , Lichtenberger Straße (until 1985) |
| Cross streets | Gartenstraße (east) , Bizetstraße (west) , Meyerbeerstraße (west) , Gounodstraße (west) , Orankeweg (east) , Chopinstraße / Hansastraße (until around 1988 they formed the extended Kniprodeallee street ) |
| Places | no |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1380 meters |
The Indira-Gandhi-Straße is part of a traffic route that has existed for centuries between the former villages of Weißensee and Lichtenberg . Most of it is in the Alt-Hohenschönhausen district of Berlin . The 22-meter-wide street was given its current name on November 8, 1985.
history
The first names handed down are Lichtenberger Weg (before 1871) and Lichtenberger Straße (around 1871 to 1985).
Indira Gandhi , the Indian Prime Minister , visited the capital in 1983 at the invitation of the GDR government and drove through some major roads in an open vehicle, where the Berliners gave her a warm welcome. The visit began closer economic cooperation between the two countries. After Indira Gandhi was murdered in 1984, the GDR honored the politician, who had always been involved in the peace movement, by renaming Lichtenberger Strasse to Indira-Gandhi-Strasse. The naming ceremony on November 8, 1985 was attended by high-ranking GDR politicians as well as the then Indian Vice President Ramaswami Venkataraman and the Ambassador of India to the GDR.
Location and traffic
The street begins in the north on Berliner Allee and continues in the south as Weißenseer Weg , about 50 meters north of Fritz-Lesch-Straße. The properties on the entire west side of the street belong to the district of Weißensee , between Orankeweg and Fritz-Lesch-Straße are the road land and the properties on the east side in the district of Alt-Hohenschönhausen .
The entire length of Indira-Gandhi-Strasse is used by the M13 tram line on its own track bed. On the east side of the street is the bus depot Indira-Gandhi-Straße , to which there is no bus route. Line 259 runs between Berliner Allee and Hansastraße a short distance along Indira-Gandhi-Straße.
There are built cycle paths on both sides of the street.
On the occasion of a thorough renovation of the road commissioned in 2006, a traffic census was carried out in which the average daily traffic volume was around 20,000 vehicles per day, including numerous heavy goods vehicles. The responsible district office of Lichtenberg financed the road repairs, carried out by the company Emch + Berger , with a sum of 650,000 euros. In the following years, improvements had to be made, particularly with regard to the evenness between the road surface and the existing manhole covers.
Buildings and sights along the street
- St. Joseph Hospital
- Resurrection Cemetery
- Jewish cemetery Berlin-Weißensee , which however has its main and visitor entrance on Herbert-Baum-Straße . On Indira-Gandhi-Straße there is an approximately 330-meter-long surrounding wall with menorah reliefs with a service entrance.
- Building of the bus depot from the years 1958–1966 (under monument protection)
- TÜV test center Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (house number 100)
- Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brewery
- Production and filling building of the former VEB Getränkekombinat Berlin , operating part VEB Spreequell (house number 25), which will continue to be used by a beverage wholesaler after its completion
Web links
- Indira Gandhi Street. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ^ Supplement to the Berlin address book 1893 , Julius Straube publishing house; shows the course of Lichtenberger Straße, which is not yet built on on either side.
- ↑ Details and photos of the Indira-Gandhi-Straße depot. BVG. Retrieved January 23, 2011
- ↑ Route map of bus route 259 (PDF) (as of January 2019)
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Brief information on the repair of Indira-Gandhi-Straße. (PDF), Retrieved January 23, 2011
- ↑ Monument complex Gartenstrasse 1–5 / Indira-Gandhi-Strasse, St. Joseph Hospital with outdoor facilities and fencing, 1891–1893 by Otto Lindner; Expansion around 1900; Chapel by Karl Weiss around 1910; northern and southern extension, 1928–1930 by H. Brunning
- ↑ Indira-Gandhi-Straße 110, cemetery of the Resurrection Church, cemetery, chapel, cemetery administration, tomb, cemetery wall
- ↑ Architectural monument Indira-Gandhi-Straße 93–100, BVG bus station, 1959–1966, washing and inspection hall under the direction of N. Ruhe; Bus repair hall from the collective G. Franke, K. Reitzig and R. Knippel
- ^ Address of TÜV Rheinland, test center Indira-Gandhi-Straße 100
- ↑ Monument complex Indira-Gandhi-Straße 66–69, former Kindl brewery, malthouse and administration building, 1929 by Hans Claus and Richard Schepke
- ^ Homepage of Getränke Preuß Münchhagen , accessed on January 23, 2011.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 47 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 5 ″ E