Koethener Strasse
Koethener Strasse | |
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Street in Berlin | |
Köthener Straße, view in south direction, on the right the buildings of the Park Kolonnaden | |
Basic data | |
place | Berlin |
District | Kreuzberg |
Created | 1843/1844 |
Connecting roads |
Stresemannstrasse (north), Reichpietschufer (south) |
Cross streets | Bernburger Strasse |
Places |
Potsdamer Platz , Hafenplatz |
Buildings | Master hall |
use | |
User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
Technical specifications | |
Street length | 550 meters |
The Köthener street is a street in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . It borders directly on Potsdamer Platz and, like it, experienced a checkered history in Berlin's cultural and entertainment district at the beginning of the 20th century, no man's land after the construction of the Berlin Wall and reconstruction after 1990.
Named after the Saxon-Anhalt city of Köthen , it originally formed the connection between the Potsdam long-distance train station and the Potsdam and Anhalter freight station . Today the Park Kolonnaden and the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park underground station are on the street in the west, and residential and commercial buildings from different times in the east, including a large student residence.
history
The street was laid out in the years 1843/1844 as a connection to the freight station of the Anhalter Bahn - starting from Stresemannstraße. On January 24, 1841, the street was named after Köthen, the first end point of the Anhalter Bahn, which began in the immediate vicinity. It was laid out at the same time as Schellingstrasse, Linkstrasse and Eichhornstrasse and part of the " Privy Council District " between Köthener, Bernburger and Dessauer Strasse, designed by Peter Joseph Lenné in his zoo plan in 1832 .
In the neighboring Bernburger Straße 22a / 23 was the old Berlin Philharmonic , a former roller-skating rink converted into a concert hall in 1888 by the architect Franz Heinrich Schwechten . Around 1898, additional space was required and the owners of the building, Ludovico Sacerdoti and Sally Landeker, had Ludwig Heim build the skylight hall in the courtyard area behind and the Beethoven hall (opened January 1899) on the adjacent property at Koethener Straße 32 in order to have alternative areas. The entire building complex was destroyed in World War II.
The Meistersaal at Köthener Straße 38 was added in 1913. In addition to chamber music evenings, there were numerous other events there, such as a propaganda evening in 1919 by Dadaists and artists from the Malik publishing house located in the same building . Dance events and lecture evenings followed later, and Kurt Tucholsky read there regularly.
Between 1910 and 1912 the Potsdam house was built on the corner of Köthenerstrasse and Stresemannstrasse - again planned by Schwechten - and after being renamed Haus Vaterland, it became one of the most famous commercial and entertainment houses on Potsdamer Platz. Also badly damaged in World War II, it was not completely demolished until 1976.
One of the first German animal films and prominent example of a cultural film came in 1920 with The stag beetle from Ulrich KT Schulz in the laundry room of a three-room apartment. The UFA's cultural department moved into this at short notice .
Cultural life did not only take place in public institutions. Shortly after the road was built, Bettina von Arnim held her salons here . From 1900 Harry Graf Kessler had his entire apartment furnished as an Art Nouveau work of art before he fled abroad after the Reichstag fire from the National Socialists . They confiscated his belongings and the house also fell victim to the Second World War.
The Berliner Verkehrs-AG (BVG) was renamed the Berliner Verkehrs-Betriebe in 1938 . As head office, they moved into the building of the former elevated railway company at Köthener Strasse 12, which was destroyed in an Allied air raid in 1943 . The BVG no longer settled directly at Potsdamer Platz, but moved to the administration building Potsdamer Strasse 188–192 .
After the Wall was built in 1961, the street became increasingly sidelined. The Meistersaal at Köthener Straße 38, which became part of Hansa-Tonstudios 2 and, as Studio by the wall, gained some fame for the recordings of David Bowie , Iggy Pop , Depeche Mode and U2 , was the only evidence of pre-war development . The street played a role in the film, as a key scene from Wim Wenders feature film Der Himmel über Berlin consists of a protagonist walking down Köthener Straße towards the wall directly adjacent.
Until June 1972, the western side of the street - i.e. the area of the Potsdam train stations - belonged to what was then the Mitte district and thus to the GDR . Through an area swap, this came to West Berlin and there to the Tiergarten administrative district .
See also
Web links
- Koethener Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ^ Volker Reitmann: Potsdamer Platz . Fink Wilhelm, 2004, ISBN 3-7705-3708-4 , p. 191
- ↑ Elfie Bendikat: Public transport policy in Berlin and Paris 1890-1914: structural conditions, political concepts and implementation issues . Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 3-11-015383-1 , p. 507
- ↑ CARTHALIA - Theaters on Postcards. [1] .
- ^ A b Peer Zietz, Uwe H. Rudenburg: Franz Heinrich Schwechten: An architect between historicism and modernity . Edition Axel Menges 1999, ISBN 3-930698-72-2 , p. 50
- ↑ Michael Bienert, Elke Linda Buchholz: The twenties in Berlin: A guide through the city . Berlin Story Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-929829-28-2 , p. 188
- ↑ Hanno Ehrlicher: The art of destruction: fantasies of violence and manifestation practices of European avant-garde . Akademie Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-05-003646-X , p. 227
- ^ Marika Bent: Real Estate / Meistersaal . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 8, 2003
- ↑ German Film Institute: Ulrich KT Schulz ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2008 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.
- ↑ Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: The Berlin Salons Walter De Gruyter 2000, ISBN 3-11-016414-0 , p. 410
- ↑ Ingrid Nowel: Berlin: the new capital: Architecture and Art, History and Literature . DuMont 2002, ISBN 3-7701-5577-7 , p. 207
- ↑ Heiko Schützler: Dams in subway tunnels - The state of local public transport in 1945 . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 10, 1998, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 36-44 ( luise-berlin.de ).
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 25 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 38 ″ E